Belt with corrugated material
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsDaniel A. Mosher, Brad Guilani
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Abstract
An elevator system includes a hoistway, an elevator car movable along the hoistway, and one or more belts operably connected to the elevator car to propel the elevator car along the hoistway. A belt of the one or more belts includes one or more tension elements extending along a belt length, and a jacket at least partially encapsulating the one or more tension elements. The jacket includes a jacket base formed from a first material and one or more insert layers embedded in the jacket base material. The one or more insert layers have a corrugated shape along the belt length, and are formed from a second material different from the first material.
Claims4
A belt for an elevator system, comprising:
- one or more tension elements extending along a belt length;
- and
- a jacket at least partially encapsulating the one or more tension elements, the jacket including:
- a jacket base;
- and
- one or more insert layers embedded in the jacket base, the one or more insert layers having a corrugated shape along the belt length;
- wherein the one or more insert layers at least partially define an outer surface of the belt.
An elevator system, comprising:
- a hoistway;
- an elevator car movable along the hoistway;
- one or more belts operably connected to the elevator car to urge the elevator car along the hoistway, a belt of the one or more belts including:
- one or more tension elements extending along a belt length;
- and
- a jacket at least partially encapsulating the one or more tension elements, the jacket including:
- a jacket base formed from a first material;
- and
- one or more insert layers embedded in the jacket base material, the one or more insert layers having a corrugated shape along the belt length, the one or more insert layers formed from a second material different from the first material;
- wherein the one or more insert layers at least partially define an outer surface of the belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.