Guide rail fixing device
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorNobuhito Funai
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Abstract
A guide rail fixing device that can increase frictional force against a guide rail without increasing the number of brackets installed on an inner wall of a hoistway. The guide rail fixing device includes: a rail bracket in contact with a bottom face of a base of a guide rail placed in the lowest portion out of multiple guide rails arranged in line in an elevator hoistway; a rail clip to clamp the base of the guide rail in cooperation with the rail bracket; and a friction plate which is in contact both with the bottom face of the base of the guide rail placed in the lowest portion and in contact with an upper end of the rail bracket, to clamp, in cooperation with a rail clip, the base of the guide rail placed in the lowest portion.
Claims10
A guide rail fixing device comprising:
- a rail bracket in contact with a bottom face of a base of a guide rail placed in a lowest portion out of guide rails arranged in line in an elevator hoistway;
- a first rail clip to clamp the base of the guide rail in cooperation with the rail bracket;
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- a friction plate which is in direct contact with the bottom face of the base of the guide rail placed in the lowest portion and in direct contact with an upper end of the rail bracket, the friction plate to clamp, in cooperation with a second rail clip, the base of the guide rail placed in the lowest portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.