Seal member for sealing a door sill gap

An elevator apparatus comprising:

• a car-side door sill configured to guide a car door provided in a doorway of an elevator car along its open/close direction;
• a landing-side door sill configured to guide a landing door provided in a doorway to the elevator car in each floor where the elevator car can be landed along its open/close direction;
• a seal member shaped to seal a gap between the car-side door sill and the landing-side door sill and slidable between a sealing position in which the gap is sealed and a retracted position;
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• a link mechanism connected to the seal member, engaged with an actuating member of a car door side in synchronization with a car door open/close operation, and configured to convert a force received from the actuating member by the engagement with the actuating member into a sliding direction of the seal member to drive the seal member in the sliding direction,
• wherein the seal member is connected to an actuation spring configured to receive a movement force toward the sealing position,
• wherein the link mechanism is structured to release the engagement force with the actuating member of the car door side in synchronization with a start of the door open operation from a door close end of the car door to permit sliding toward the sealing position by the actuation spring, and
• wherein the link mechanism is structured to engage with the actuating member of the car door side in synchronization with the movement of the car door toward the door close end and receive a movement force of the car door to slide the seal member placed in the sealing position to the retracted position in resistance to a spring force of the actuation spring,
• wherein the seal member is connected to a bracket provided in a link mechanism side through an elastic material and is displaceable toward the gap between the car-side door sill and the landing-side door sill.