Mount for a lift cage safety device

US6012553A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• INVENTIO AG · CH

Inventors

• Christoph Liebetrau · Menziken, CH
• Ortwin Piper · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Albrecht Morlok · Horb, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66B5/22
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A mount for the safety device in a lift cage comprises an assembly for maintaining a catch system in a readiness position and for the movement thereof in at least one plane during the braking process. A catch housing is supported horizontally fixed in the readiness position and is held in the readiness position by a resilient plate lightly braced against the catch housing. When the safety device is triggered into a braking process the catch housing is urged upwardly against the resilient plate, out of the readiness position wherein the horizontal fixing is cancelled and self-centering of the catch housing in relation to the guide rails can occur. The transmission of braking/catching forces to the cage is damped and progressively sprung through the compression of the resilient plate.