Elevator – industrial lift truck – or stationary lift for vehicle – With barrier for regulating access to load support – Including barrier mounted at landing
Patent
1997-01-21
1999-03-30
Kramer, Dean
Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle
With barrier for regulating access to load support
Including barrier mounted at landing
187334, 187325, 49120, B66B 1306
Patent
active
058876812
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a multifunction, connection and support element in a mechanism for automatic door motion for lifts and elevators. Known-type lifts generally comprise two lateral jambs and a transversal superior element, or architrave, which connects the two jambs (for example by bolting) and houses the motion mechanism of the lift doors.
The architrave is provided with means for anchoring to a fixed wall of the lift shaft, which means for anchoring are constituted by brackets bolted to the architrave in the central zone thereof and fixed to the wall by screws.
Internally of the architrave there are also supports for the guides of the door motion mechanisms, which supports are completely separate from the above-mentioned screws and are not applied thereat.
The principal drawback of the above realizations is the need to arrange a large number of connection or support elements for fixing the various components of the door and for the support of the guides of the movement carriages of the doors.
A further drawback is that the numerous connection and support elements are positioned rather distributedly along the architrave, which can lead to slight bending thereof.
The main aim of the present invention is to obviate the above drawbacks by providing a multifunction connection and support element able efficiently to perform the functions of numerous elements employed in the prior art, and also able better to stiffen and strengthen the door structure.
The above aims are fully attained by the multifunction connection and support element, object of the present invention, which is characterized as set out in the accompanying claims and in particular in that it consists of a connection and support bracket for each lateral door jamb, which contemporaneously connects and unites the jamb with the architrave as well as with the means for anchoring the architrave to a fixed wall.
The bracket preferably also supports the sliding guides of the door motion carriages.
Further characteristics and advantages of the present invention will better emerge from the detailed description that follows, of an embodiment of the invention, illustrated in the form of a non-limiting example in the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows the multifunction element in an exploded perspective view;
FIG. 2 shows the multifunction element in place, in a frontal perspective view;
FIG. 3 shows the element in a lateral view;
FIG. 4 is a transversal section of the profile of a door;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a lift gate with an automatic door.
With reference to the figures, 1 denotes the side jambs of a gate having automatic doors 7, in particular used for lifts and elevators. The doors 7 can be of the centre-to-side opening type, or of the telescopic type, with segments telescoping either to the right or the left.
The means for moving the doors, of known type, are housed internally to an architrave 2 which connects the two jambs 1. The means for moving the doors usually comprise door support carriages (one of which is schematically denoted by 8 in FIG. 3), which slide by means of rollers 9 on guides 5. A multifunction connection and support element is housed in the architrave 2, which element is constituted by a bracket 3 connecting the jamb 1 with the architrave 2, and the architrave 2 with a second bracket 4 constituting a means for anchoring the jamb 2 to a wall, not illustrated, in the lift shaft.
The bracket 3 also functions as a support for the guide 5 of the door motion mechanism carriage. At least two brackets 3 are present, one positioned at each jamb, and further intermediate brackets can be applied if necessary, along the architrave 2, to afford further support to the guide 5.
It is clear how having provided a multifunction bracket 3 and its positioning such as to create a continuous arrangement among the various components of the door structure (jamb 1, architrave 2, second bracket 4) help to obtain greater rigidity and a strengthening of the whole structure with respect to prior art realizations. The bracket 3 is fixed
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