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US 12,703,609 B2Granted
Automatic conveyor device
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsXiren Hu, De Wu
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Abstract
An automatic conveyor device includes an entrance platform and an exit platform opposite to each other, and a series of steps running in a loop between the entrance platform and the exit platform; a platform footboard at the entrance platform or exit platform; a comb support plate connected to the platform footboard and slidable along guide rails of the platform footboard along a length direction; and one or more comb plates fixedly mounted onto the comb support plate.
Claims12
An automatic conveyor device, comprising:
- an entrance platform and an exit platform opposite to each other, and a series of steps running in a loop between the entrance platform and the exit platform,
- a platform footboard at the entrance platform or the exit platform
- a comb support plate connected to the platform footboard and slidable along guide rails of the platform footboard along a length direction;
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- one or more comb plates fixedly mounted onto the comb support plate;
- wherein the engaging surface between the comb support plate and the platform footboard is a slope, and the comb support plate slides relative to the platform footboard along the slope, resulting in an increase in a gap between the comb plate and the step during the sliding process of the comb support plate.
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