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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2020
Kone Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Arvind Kinjarapu, Allen, TX (US);
Håkan Bärneman, Frisco, TX (US);
Hector Garcia, Matamoros, MX;
Areli Borrego, Helsinki, MX;
Martti Juurioksa, Allen, TX (US);
KONE CORPORATION, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
A method of assembling an elevator car within an elevator hoistway, including installing a car frame onto the elevator hoistway, attaching a car base to the car frame, the car base forming a floor of the elevator car, setting spacers on a top surface of the car base, placing a car roof onto the spacers, the car roof including a first bracket and a second bracket, each bracket including a safety latch assembly, lifting the car roof until to a top position where each safety latch assembly engages a respective top surface of the car frame to fix the car roof to the car frame, the installing wall panels to the car base and to the car roof. As the car roof is lifted, the safety latches travel along a car frame structural vertical member and are maintained in a tensioned state by springs.