Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions

20080169158 - Twin screw scissor lift assembly: A scissor lift device is provided having twin vertical screws that act to raise or lower a substantially horizontal and flat platform using a pair of scissor jacks. A single DC motor can be provided within the scissor lift device housing, and is operatively connected to one vertical screw. The... Agent: Gowan Intellectual Property

20080169159 - Method of transporting persons in a building: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for transporting people in a building by means of a lift installation (10) comprising at least one lift cage (11). Said lift cage (11) is entered by people on at least one first access floor (S1, S2). In order to increase... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080164101 - Lift for skids and pallets: A lift has two tines that project forward and are movable up-and-down to raise and lower pallets and skids. Two outriggers are pivotal between a stored position and a deployed position, and the outriggers project forward in the deployed position to stabilize the lift when the tines are elevated. The... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20080164102 - Hoist for elevator: An elevator hoist apparatus includes a stationary frame member, a main shaft, a stationary element disposed to said stationary frame member, a rotary frame member supported on said main shaft and extending in a radial direction in axial opposition to said stationary frame member, a rotary element disposed to said... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080164103 - Elevator car having an angled underslung roping arrangement: An elevator system (20) includes an underslung car (22). A plurality of load bearing members (32-38) are closer together behind the elevator car and spaced farther apart near a front of the elevator car (22). A plurality of sheaves (40-44) are supported for vertical movement with the car and rotational... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080156589 - Lifting platform for the maintenance and repair of light vehicles: A lifting platform (1) for the maintenance and repair of light vehicles, such as quad bikes, motorcycles, lawn mower tractors or the like, of the type including a load-bearing platform and a lift mechanism (2) that acts on the load-bearing platform, whereby the load-bearing platform, with a longitudinal axis that... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080156590 - Elevator disk brake with damping: An elevator brake assembly (16) includes a plate (26) having damper assemblies (28) including at least one spring (30) for controlling movement of the plate (26) relative to a magnetic field generator (20). A biasing member (36) forces the plate (26) into engagement with a disk (22) fixed to a... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080156591 - Elevator car position detection: A device (40) for providing information regarding the position of an elevator car door (34) relative to a hoistway door (30) includes a reflector (42) supported on the hoistway door (30). A sensor (44) supported on an elevator car door (34) includes a plurality of sensing elements (46-50) for emitting... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080156592 - Elevator load bearing member having a jacket with at least one traction-enhancing exterior surface: An elevator load bearing member assembly includes at least one traction enhancing surface (46) on a jacket (44). In one example, a mechanical removal process is used to strip away at least some of an amide-rich layer from the surface (46) after the jacket has been extruded onto tension members... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080149425 - Tire lift: A tire lift is provided for use in operably lifting and lowering tires. An upstanding member extends from a base to define a substantially vertical hoist axis. An extension arm having a proximal portion and an opposed distal portion defines a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The proximal portion is movably... Agent: Mark J. Burns Haugen Law Firm Pllp

20080149427 - Elevator installation in a building with at least one transfer floor: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080149428 - Elevator installation in a building with at least one transfer floor: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080149426 - Elevator with two elevator cars disposed one above the other in a shaft: An elevator includes at least two elevator cars which are disposed one above the other and vertically movable in a shaft independently of one another and which each have an associated drive with at least one motor and at least one drive pulley, an associated counterweight and at least one... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080149429 - Drive system for elevator car roof: A method for carrying out maintenance and inspection operations at an elevator installation with an elevator car having a lowerable car roof that serves as maintenance platform, comprises at least the following steps: positioning the elevator car at a selected floor and opening the elevator doors; lowering the car roof... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080149430 - Synthetic fiber rope: A synthetic fiber rope can be used to the limit of failure by setting a sensitivity of detection of the state of wear of the rope. Strands of the rope have indicator fibers or indicator yarn that have a high probability of losing electrical conductivity and thereby indicate a worn... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080149431 - Method and appliance for tripping the safety gear of an elevator: Safety gear of an elevator tripped at a speed lower than the gripping speed of the elevator. Tripping of the safety gear in an overspeed situation is arranged to occur by means of the rope driving the overspeed governor via a rope sheave (3). Connection of the brake (5) or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080149432 - Method and system for modernization of an elevator installation: A method for modernization of an elevator installation with several elevators in a building, wherein at least one floor terminal for input of a floor call is provided on at least one floor of the building, which floor terminal is, for communication of an input floor call, connected with a... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc