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:
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 method and a system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and to a method for modernization of an existing building with the evacuation system. The system is used in a multi-story building having a plurality of floors and with at least one elevator positionable at selected landings of the floors. A first device is provided for measuring the number of persons in the building and a second device is provided for detecting an emergency condition in the building. At least one control unit is provided for determining or for estimating a number of building occupants in the building. The control unit defines at least one evacuation zone in the building during the emergency condition. Based on this information, the control unit defines at least one designated floor in the building during the emergency condition. Then the system evacuates the building occupants with the elevator car and/or a stairway from the evacuation zone to the designated floor.
Abstract:
An elevator installation has a sealing element that is movable by an electromagnetic actuator from a first position to a second position. The sealing element includes a seal carrier that is movably arranged at a door leaf of a door of the elevator installation. An electromagnetic actuator is fastened in the region of the door and upon actuation acts on the seal carrier to move it from the first position to the second position. An electrical circuit triggers the actuation before the door leaf executes an opening movement.
Abstract:
A door system has an axis, a door attached at a first end to the axis for winding and unwinding upon the axis, and a tensioned member surrounding and partially engaging an outer layer of the door wound upon the axis. The tensioned member exerts a radial force to the outer layer of the door wound upon the axis, thereby ensuring that the door is consistently wound tightly upon the axis and permitting the fast unrolling of the door from the axis. Although the tensioned member exerts a radial force upon the door, it imparts no significant lateral forces to the door. Accordingly, the door can have a simple construction with material, cost and space savings.
Abstract:
An elevator door system includes a motor rotating a vertical reel, and an elevator door. The door can be formed of a plurality of vertically aligned rigid panels or can be a sheet of material which is rigid or reinforced in the vertical direction or can have any other appropriate form making it suitable for being wound upon and unwound from the reel. The door is mounted to a flexible force transmission member provided along an entire width of the door and interconnected to the reel. Accordingly, the forces generated by the motor for opening and closing the door are substantially transmitted through the transmission member rather than being imparted onto the door itself. Hence, in use the strain on the door is greatly reduced and therefore the quantity of material used for the door and consequently its cost and mass can be reduced without deteriorating performance.
Abstract:
An entraining apparatus for the coupling, unlatching and entraining of elevator shaft doors includes an entraining parallelogram which is movable laterally and is actuated by a door drive on an elevator car. The entraining parallelogram has two vertically extending entraining members, one entraining member being fixedly connected to a slide member horizontally movable in a guide (9) and pushed into a neutral abutment setting by a compression spring during the elevator travel. An arresting parallelogram includes a movable coulisse and the fixed entraining member coupled to an upper link having a pawl lever with a pawl. Upon arrival at a stopping floor, the entraining apparatus is pushed by a pair of shaft door rollers into a centered position and the left shaft door roller moves the coulisse inwardly to engage the pawl between teeth of a comb on the slide member and arrest the entraining apparatus. During travel of the car, the compression spring pushes the entraining apparatus to the neutral position. An eccentric can be rotated to prevent the coulisse from moving the pawl into the arresting position in order to permit adjustment operations on the door drive.
Abstract:
An apparatus for entraining and unlatching an elevator car door and a shaft door includes an electromagnet having a movable armature attached to a first bellows mounted on a wall of the car. An entraining and unlatching cam is attached to a second bellows which is mounted on the car door. The cam has stiffened cam entry surfaces, cam surfaces and front surface. The bellows are connected by a hose as a closed pneumatic system operating with below atmospheric pressure. When the electromagnet is not actuated, an internal compression spring in the second bellows extends the cam into engagement with rollers mounted on a shaft door to splay the rollers thereby unlatching the shaft door and entraining it with the car door. At the same time, the first bellows retracts the armature to unlatch the car door. When the electromagnet is actuated, the armature latches the car door and the second bellows retracts the cam to permit the rollers to fold toward one another thereby latching the shaft door. The movements of the bellows are detected by microswitches which are connected with a monitoring circuit which controls a pump to maintain the desired pressure in the system.
Abstract:
A door system has an axis, a door attached at a first end to the axis for winding and unwinding upon the axis, and a tensioned member surrounding and partially engaging an outer layer of the door wound upon the axis. The tensioned member exerts a radial force to the outer layer of the door wound upon the axis, thereby ensuring that the door is consistently wound tightly upon the axis and permitting the fast unrolling of the door from the axis. Although the tensioned member exerts a radial force upon the door, it imparts no significant lateral forces to the door. Accordingly, the door can have a simple construction with material, cost and space savings.
Abstract:
An elevator shaft door having a door panel composed of a front wall and rear wall, which walls are connected together by a thermally releasable material, wherein at least a part of the closing edge of the respective door panels consists of a profile member that is formed by the back wall or thermally non-detachably fastened to the back wall. In the case of a fire, the back wall separates from the front wall through release of the thermally releasable material, wherein the front wall curves by heat effect while the back wall with the closing edge retains the original shape.