US 9,422,134 B2Granted

Rope terminal assembly and an elevator

AssigneeKone Corporation

InventorsAntti Ikonen, Jani Luoma, Pekka Hallikainen, Raimo Pelto-Huikko

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Abstract

A rope terminal assembly of an elevator fixing an elevator rope to a fixing base such as an elevator unit, the elevator being suitable for transporting passengers and/or goods, includes an elevator rope, whose width is larger than its thickness in a rope transverse direction, with at least one end having an end face, a rope end block attached to the rope end, one or more wedge elements, a wedge housing, where the terminal assembly includes a rope gap through which the elevator rope passes and the wedge element is arranged to wedge between the rope and the wedge housing thus locking the elevator rope in the gap, and the rope end block is attached on the end face side of the elevator rope with respect to the wedge element, and an elevator.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A rope terminal assembly of an elevator, which assembly fixes an elevator rope to a fixing base and which elevator rope has a width that is larger than its thickness in a rope transverse direction, with at least one end of the elevator rope having an end face, and said elevator being suitable for transporting passengers and/or goods, wherein said terminal assembly comprises:

a rope end block for attachment to the at least one end of the elevator rope,
one or more wedge elements, and
a wedge housing,
wherein said terminal assembly comprises a rope gap through which said elevator rope is to pass, when said elevator rope is attached to said terminal assembly, and said wedge element is arranged to wedge between said elevator rope and said wedge housing, thus locking said elevator rope in the rope gap, the wedge element contacting both the wedge housing and the elevator rope due to insertion between the wedge housing and the elevator rope, said rope end block is attached on said at least one end of the elevator rope with respect to the wedge element, and said rope end block is made of plastics or electrically non-conductive material,
wherein each wedge element has a first surface contacting the rope and a second surface contacting the housing, the first surface being opposite to the second surface, and
wherein said rope end block is attached to said wedge element with one or more fasteners.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/141,601Filed 27 Dec 2013
Priority: FI 2012639330 Dec 2012
Published: US 2014/0182975 A13 Jul 2014
Granted: 23 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B66B 5/0018
Monitoring devices or performance analysers: devices monitoring the operating condition of the elevator system
B66B 5/0025
Devices monitoring the operating condition of the elevator system: for maintenance or repair
B66B 5/0031
Devices monitoring the operating condition of the elevator system: for safety reasons
B66B 7/085
For connection to the cars or cages, e.g. couplings: belt termination devices