Otis Elevator Company

Philippe Ducas

Amine Badaoui

Jean-Pierre Tantis

Victor Carvalho

Franky Mias

An elevator door assembly includes car and hoistway door subassemblies. The car door subassembly includes: a car door, a door mover, and first and second vanes supported for movement relative to the car door. The hoistway door subassembly includes: a hoistway door; a locking member that selectively locks the hoistway door; and a coupler member associated with the locking member. When the car door is adjacent the hoistway door: the first vane moves into contact with the coupler member and causes the locking member to move into an unlocked position, prior to movement of the car and hoistway doors; and the second vane is retained in a non-blocking position by the coupler member. When the car door is not adjacent the hoistway door, movement of the car door toward the open position moves the second vane into a blocking position in which further movement of the car door is inhibited.

Elevator door coupler assembly

The bottom guiding device according to the invention for telescoping elevator car and/or landing doors with at least one fast-moving door () and one slow-moving door () moving parallel to and within a small distance from a threshold plate () of a car and/or landing door respectively, is characterized in that it implements a threshold plate () on the car and/or landing side, formed with at least one lower edge parallel to the travel path of the doors () and forming a bottom guide track () for the doors; a bottom plate () integral with the slower door () and extending with a small clearance below the faster door (), provided on the threshold side with a guide track () parallel to the travel path of the doors () and accommodating a guide element () integral with the faster door () and close to its rear lower end; at least two distant guide elements () integral with said bottom plate () on the slower door and accommodated on said () on the threshold plate so as to slide freely; and at least one guide element () integral with the faster door () and accommodated on said guide track () on the threshold plate, arranged substantially at the front end of the faster door () and sufficiently far from said guide elements () on the slow door () when the doors are opened and face each other.

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Saint Firmin sur Loire, France

Philippe Ducas