Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 02/08

20080047782 - Cable control apparatus: A cable control apparatus having a carrier and one or more trigger points disposed on a cable. A control mechanism controls movement of the cable and has a plurality of sensors to sense the one or more trigger points, and a motor to impart movement to the cable. A first... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20080047783 - Method of controlling access to an elevator car: A method of controlling access to an elevator car, in particular to its ceiling and/or underside, including the steps of switching the elevator control into a maintenance mode which controls the car to travel to a predetermined stop position permitting access, and opening a landing door of the elevator shaft... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080047784 - Door operating mechanism for an automatic door: A door operating mechanism for an automatic door is described, in particular for an automatic sliding and/or elevator door. A driving pinion or belt pulley for driving a belt or a chain which is used for transmitting the driving force generated by a motor to the door leaf is mounted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080041665 - Residential elevator with automatic pet door for detection and logic component for operation: The present invention combines a residential elevator and automatic pet door with an intelligence component comprised of a Programmable Logic Controller with programmed intelligence that enables interoperability between the residential elevator and automatic pet door. In practice a pet will wear a collar with an attached or embedded transmitter. As... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20080041666 - Elevator group and method for controlling an elevator group: A set of elevators, e.g. an elevator group, is connected to a common power supply. The elevators are controlled by a common control system so that an elevator car having stopped is prevented from being dispatched in the up direction if, of the elevator cars of the elevators connected to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080041667 - Elevator and traction sheave of an elevator: A counterweight and an elevator car are suspended on a set of hoisting ropes. The elevator comprises one or more rope pulleys provided with rope grooves, one of said pulleys being a traction sheave driven by a drive machine and moving the set of hoisting ropes. At least one of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080041668 - Lift with support means and drive means: A lift has a lift cage movable in a lift shaft and is connected with a counterweight by means of at least one support means. The lift cage or counterweight moves by means of at least one drive means separate from the support means. One end of the drive means... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20080041669 - Directing passengers using color indications: An elevator system (20) includes a controller (22) that communicates with a portable device (30) that is adapted to be carried about by a passenger (32). The system provides a color indication (28A-28E) associated with an elevator car (26A-26E) that will travel to a passenger's intended destination floor. In one... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080035430 - Stairlift: The platform of a stairlift is moved along a rail in a stairwell. During the movement, the platform is automatically rotated relative to the rail about a vertical shaft, at angles depending on a position of the platform along the rail. The stairway contains, for instance, a virtually straight part... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080029346 - Go-between container transfer and system: This invention is a system with carrier for transferring cargo containers between exposed-center-sill container cars and trucks, and docks and conveyors having recesses or wines to receive the carrier for lifting the container from underneath. The carrier has top and bottom frames with top and bottom arms respectively extending over... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080029347 - Method and device for mounting a rope on a rope pulley: The invention relates to a method and a device for mounting a rope 3 on a rope pulley (2) by winding the rope (3) at least partially around the rope pulley (2). According to the invention, the end of the rope (3) to be mounted is pressed into a rope... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080029348 - Method for controlling a braking unit of a rope transport installation and braking unit: e

20080029349 - Non-personal-contact electric switch apparatus: A non-personal-contact electric switch apparatus includes an actuator-reception well which includes a minimum internal dimension which is substantially greater than a maximum outer dimension of an actuator. The actuator-reception well includes a pair of opposed light transmissive regions. A light emitter is located adjacent to a first of the light... Agent: S. Michael Bender

20080029350 - Elevator car guiding device for an elevator without machine room: The invention relates to an Elevator car 93) guiding device for an elevator without a machine room and with a drive motor (5) mounted on a top side wall of the shaft, wherein the elevator car (3) is guided by means of opposed top and bottom guide elements (9) integral... Agent: Otis Elevator Company Intellectual Property Department