Creation of temporary safety spaces for elevators
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorEric Rossignol
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Abstract
The invention provides an elevator having a car movable along guide rails mounted in a shaft. The elevator comprises an inspection control station mounted on top of the car and accessible via a movable control station cover, blocking means for selectively preventing movement of the car into a safety space within the shaft and actuation means for actuating the blocking means. The actuation means is configured for concurrent movement with the control station cover. Accordingly, a temporary safety space is automatically created within the shaft as the maintenance technician opens the control station cover to move the car using the inspection control station.
Claims11
In an elevator of the type having a car movable along guide rails mounted in a shaft, an improvement for creating a temporary safety space comprising an inspection control station mounted on the car, blocking means for selectively preventing movement of the car into a safety space within the shaft, and access means to selectively enable operable access to the inspection control station and concurrently actuate the blocking means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.