Having Endless Driving Belt In Drive-means Patents (Class 187/327)
  • Patent number: 7464794
    Abstract: The invention is relating to a coupling device for elevator car (5) and landing doors of the kind comprising moving cams (3) integral with the car door (5) and driving the landing door in front of a story landing by means of a coupling plate integral therewith and engaging with the cams (3), locking it mechanically and electrically upon door closure to allow the subsequent drive of the car, wherein said cams (3) are movably mounted with a variable distance from each other on the car door (5), independently from the car door drive belt (19), and a part (7) is provided to drive the cams (3) with a variable distance, which part (7) is mounted on the car door (5) and connected to the drive belt (19) and to one of the cams (3) to drive it towards and away from the other cam (3) with a large displacement relative to a small overtravel drive of the belt (19), in order to respectively allow to unlock the coupling plate and its landing door drive coupling when the doors open and to lock it when they close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Amine Badaoui, Jean-Pierre Tantis
  • Publication number: 20040128913
    Abstract: A door with a sliding door leaf has guides that are arranged in the region of an edge of the door leaf. The guides include a belt so aligned that it extends by the belt length thereof longitudinally of the guide surface for the door leaf in the direction of sliding of the door leaf. When the door leaf is sliding, the belt runs with the door leaf in such a manner that a portion of the belt bears against the guide surface when the door leaf is open, closed and sliding and thereby guides the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5701973
    Abstract: Disclosed is a door operator mounted in a space between a cab fascia and a sill edge plane. A feature of the door operator is a drive unit connected to a drive pulley, the drive unit being mounted in a central portion of the door operator, wherein the drive pulley provides a drive force to a linear transmission element. Another feature of the door operator is a modular mounting plate, wherein the door operator is mounted to the mounting plate, and in turn, the mounting plate is mounted in the space between the cab fascia and the sill edge plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Tracey