Roller guide shoe for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight of an elevator
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorsPatrick Bumann, Volker Zapf
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Abstract
A roller guide shoe for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight includes a support structure formed as a plastics injection-molded part, guide rollers, and lever elements arranged between the support structure and the guide rollers. The respective lever element is an integral molded body made of a plastics material, and applies a preload for the guide roller as a bending part. The lever elements inserted into associated joint cams of the support structure, wherein each joint cam engages in a recess on the associated lever element to predefine an articulation axis. Each lever element has two lever arms that define a V-shape.
Claims17
1-15. (canceled)
A roller guide shoe for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight of an elevator along a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction, the roller guide shoe comprising:
- a guide roller;
- a support structure including a base portion adapted to fasten the roller guide shoe to the elevator car or to the counterweight, and a web portion protruding away from the base portion and carrying the guide roller;
- and
- a lever element arranged between the support structure and the guide roller, the guide roller being rotatably mounted at a free end of the lever element and the lever element engaging the support structure.
A roller guide shoe for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight of an elevator along a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction, the roller guide shoe comprising:
- three guide rollers;
- a support structure including a base portion adapted to fasten the roller guide shoe to the elevator car or to the counterweight;
- and
- three lever elements arranged on the support structure, each of the lever elements having an associated one of the guide rollers rotatably mounted thereon, wherein two of the lever elements each have two coaxial axle journals adapted to receive the guide rollers, the axle journals being arranged on opposite sides of each of the two the lever elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.