Abstract: In a car door apparatus for an elevator, a closing-plate supporting portion is provided at a car-door front surface, the closing-plate supporting portion supporting the closing plate so that the closing plate is slidable along a direction in which the car door is opened and closed. A door-pocket cover is provided with a closing-plate engagement portion brought into engagement with the closing plate at the time of a door-closing operation to restrict displacement of the closing plate in a door-closing direction relative to the cover front-surface portion.

Abstract: Elevator hoistway door closer device that increases the closing force on the door as the door approaches the door closed position. A elevator hoistway door closer includes a reel having a groove in its side that terminates in a flat edge beyond a breakover angle. The groove may have a first portion of essentially constant diameter and a second portion having a conical helix shape. The third portion includes the breakover angle and may terminate in a flat edge. There may be an elongate tensile element received by the first and second portions and the third portion defined by the breakover angle flat edge, and that has a free end for attachment to a fixed point. There may be a spring for rotating the reel and attracting the elongate tensile element by wrapping the elongate tensile element around the first and second portions of the channel and over the breakover angle and flat edge of the third portion.

Abstract: An elevator door includes a fast panel and one or more successively slower panels, wherein each panel has a front surface, a parallel rear surface and a lagging surface interconnecting the front surface and rear surface. The lagging surface of a successively faster panel is accommodated between the front surface and the rear surface of a successively slower panel when the door is in its fully open position. With this arrangement, the panels can be accommodated one inside the other when the door is in its fully open position and consequently the depth of the telescopic door can be reduced significantly.

Abstract: A roller assembly includes a frame (16) defining a doorway (14). A rail (32), which includes at least one supporting surface along at least one side of the rail, is secured to the frame (16). At least one roller (38), which is adapted to roll along the supporting surface of the rail (32), has a tire material (68) that contacts the rail (32). A thermal barrier (62, 70, 72, 76, 80) is positioned to inhibit heat transfer from the rail (32) to the tire material (68).

Abstract: An elevator door system includes a door drive and a door wherein the door drive has a horizontally movable, vertically aligned beam and the door has a fast panel and one or more successively slower panels and a first synchronous linkage mechanism including a series of links extending alternatively upwards and downwards between a first pivot point mounted to a door frame and a further pivot point mounted to the fast panel. A drive lever is connected to the first synchronous linkage mechanism and engages with the vertically aligned beam so that horizontal movement of the beam is translated by the drive lever into rotation of the first synchronous linkage mechanism about its pivot points.

Abstract: A door assembly has a door header mounted on a frame defining a doorway, a door movably supported on the frame, and a track including at least one supporting surface along at least one side of the track. The track is secured to the door header. The assembly has at least one roller that is adapted to roll along the track. The roller has a rim portion adjacent a hub portion, and a tire material surrounding the rim portion that contacts the track. The roller is at least partially covered with a thermal barrier between the tire material and at least one of the rim portion and the hub portion to prevent heat transfer to the tire material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjustably mounting tracks that suspend horizontal sliding doors at a freight elevator landing. The apparatus comprises a plurality of brackets adapted to be mounted in the shaft on the header above the landing opening. The brackets are each secured to the header with anchor bolts. Each anchor bolt is set in the header but initially allows vertical movement of the bracket. An adjusting screw, carried on each bracket, is arranged to easily and precisely move the bracket up or down relative to the anchor bolt as needed to position the tracks and, therefore, the door panels at a proper height. Once adjusted such that a specified gap is established between the lower edges of the door panels and the threshold, each anchor bolt can be tightened to fix its respective bracket in its adjusted position.

Abstract: A safety closing system for a shaft door panel of an elevator installation brings the shaft door panel into a closed setting in the absence of an opening force. The safety closing system includes a spring which is stressed in the open setting of the shaft door panel and a drive mass which is subject to gravitational force, the spring and mass being coupled by a flexible tension element with the shaft door panel.

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.

Abstract: An elevator shaft closure and a method of fulfilling fire protection requirements for the same include a shaft door frame having in the region of the closing edge of the frame with a door leaf of at least two door frame parts attached to a building and connected together with a thermally separable material. Under a predetermined stress, the connection between the door frame parts is released and one of the door frame parts displaces in front of the door leaf while the other door frame part substantially retains its original shape.

Abstract: A horizontal door system is used in conjunction with an interfloor vertical transport system that penetrates an opening in a floor. The vertical transport system has vertical elements that define a fixed horizontal cross-section within the opening, and the door system includes a leading edge profile having a configuration matching the fixed horizontal cross-section of the vertical transport system. The door system is particularly suitable as a fire door system to seal upper and lower fire zones.

Abstract: An elevator hoistway door lock comprises a rod journaled for rotation on a hoistway door. A pin which extends laterally from the rod engages a lip when the rod is rotated into a locked position by means of its own weight, and optionally a spring. The pin clears the lip when the rod is rotated into an unlocked position by means of a retiring cam disposed on the elevator car. The electrical safety switch contacts are interconnected by a rotating contact disposed on the rod, only when the rod is rotated to place the pin in the locked position.

Abstract: An elevator landing, which is used with a curvilinear hoistway door has a lintel, a guide attached to the lintel, the guide having a curvilinear slot having an inner edge and an outer edge for guiding an upper portion of the curvilinear door and, a curvilinear sill having a curvilinear second slot having an inner edge and an outer edge for guiding a lower edge portion of the doors. The first slot and the second slot are in register with each other. The sill slot extends vertically through the sill.

Abstract: Fire door for an elevator, especially for use in the landing doorways of an elevator shaft. The fire door is mounted abreast of an elevator landing door. The fire protection characteristics of the fire door are so chosen that the elevator door and the fire door together fulfil the requirements imposed on a fire door.