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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2012
Christian E. Thomsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert D. Wilson, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
James Watson, Seattle, WA (US);
Keegan Carriveau, Seattle, WA (US);
Max Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
Christian E. Thomsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert D. Wilson, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
James Watson, Seattle, WA (US);
Keegan Carriveau, Seattle, WA (US);
Max Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
Vertical Motion Innovations, LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A gate below an elevator car which prevents access to an elevator hoistway. The gate slidably mounts behind a toe guard and retracts upwardly if the bottom of the gate encounters a person, object or the floor of the elevator pit during downward travel of the elevator. The gate latches when fully retracted so that it may be out of the way during maintenance. A microswitch is wired into the emergency stop circuit that engages when the gate is latched. A trip wire defining the bottom edge of the gate is also wired into the emergency stop circuit, so that the elevator will stop its downward travel if it encounters an obstruction. Rubber bumpers on the bottom edge of the gate cushion impact to people or objects who happen to be below the elevator car and are struck by the gate during downward elevator movement.