Elevator car hitch

Details Elevator car hitch Elevator car hitch

1995-07-07

1997-03-18

Terrell, William E.

Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle

Having specific force transmitting connection for...

Equalizes tension in, or length of, plural linking cables

187254, B66B 710

Patent

active

056114125

ABSTRACT:
A hitch assembly is disclosed for an elevator car suspended by hoist ropes and driven by a drive sheave. The hitch assembly having a hitch plate with openings for thimble rods, wherein geometrical planes bisecting the openings for the thimble rods are substantially coplanar with geometrical planes bisecting hoist rope grooved recesses in the drive sheave. Another feature of the present invention is a vibration isolation assembly for fastening the hitch plate to a mounting plate fixed to the elevator car, wherein the vibration isolation assembly isolates vibrations transmitted to the elevator car from the hoist ropes. Still another feature of the hitch assembly is a rope tension equalization assembly for fastening the hoist ropes to the hitch plate, wherein the rope tension equalization assembly equalizes tensions among the hoist ropes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1282374 (1918-10-01), Buckley
patent: 1565646 (1925-12-01), Hobbs
patent: 1721603 (1929-07-01), Neenan
patent: 2214139 (1940-09-01), Lindquist
patent: 2308211 (1943-01-01), Sanford
patent: 4081057 (1978-03-01), Carradini
patent: 4537286 (1985-08-01), Morris et al.
patent: 5181586 (1993-01-01), Yoo et al.
patent: 5353893 (1994-10-01), Sun et al.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Elevator car hitch does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Elevator car hitch, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Elevator car hitch will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1699761