Otis Elevator Company

Tanaka Takashi

Hideki Arai

Otoyo Hirohumi

Hideaki Sasaki

Michiyuki Sato

Shinichiro Oga

A safety link for an elevator car traveling in an elevator hoistway includes a hitch bracket slidably mounted to the elevator car frame so as to be movable in the moving directions of the elevator car and biased toward the downward movement direction of the elevator car in normal operating condition, the hitch bracket connected to the governor rope, and a pulley rotatably mounted to the hitch bracket and including an actuation wire wrapped around the pulley and connected to a safety device.

Safety link with pulley

An elevator fall-prevention apparatus includes a holding member, which is shaped approximately like a rectangular tube, secured to a base part of an elevator guide rail. The holding member supports a locking support member that is rotatable about a spindle from a standby position into a blocking position.

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Chiba-ken, Japan

Tanaka Takashi