Kone Corporation

Aalto University Foundation

Sven Bossuyt

Petteri Valjus

Mikko Puranen

Petri Kere

Hannu Lehtinen

Juha Helenius

Juha Honkanen

Mika Juntunen

Kim Antin

Aleksi Nareikko

Erno Soinila

Tuomas Pihlajamaki

Hannu Hanninen

Antti Hassinen

Kai Ruotsalainen

Mikko Lassila

Aleksi Näreikkö

The invention relates to a method for inspecting quality and/or condition of an elongated composite member, which is a load bearing member of a rope of a hoisting apparatus, such as an elevator, or a precursor of such a load bearing member, the method comprising providing an elongated composite member; and changing the temperature of said elongated composite member by heating or cooling said elongated composite member via a flank thereof; and scanning said elongated composite member from a lateral side thereof with a thermal imaging device after said changing of the temperature; and creating thermographic images of said elongated composite member.

Method for checking the integrity of composite load bearing member

An arc melting and tilt casting apparatus having a casing provided with a vacuum chamber for housing a hearth having a melting trough and pouring means, arc-melting electrode means passing through the casing in the chamber, a mold having a melt receiving orifice, vacuum generating means, sealing means for maintaining the vacuum in the chamber and tilting means for tilting the apparatus to cause the melt to flow from the melting trough via the pouring means in the mold through the mold orifice. The hearth and mold are connected together and moveable as a single unit in the vacuum chamber and out from the chamber.

Arc melting and tilt casting apparatus

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Helsinki, Finland

Sven Bossuyt