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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Louis Bialy, Simsbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21B / ; B21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
72199 ; 72210 ; 72237 ; 72244 ;
Abstract
An adjustable elevator rail repair device (14) is provided with a means for forcing raised damaged areas (18) of an elevator rail (10) back into the corresponding depressions (20) of the rail surface (9). The forcing means comprises a roller (24) rotatably mounted within a wedge (22), adjustably positioned in a housing (16). A method is disclosed for repairing the damaged rail (10) comprising a calculating step to determine the amount of adjustment necessary for the rail repair device (14).