US 12,227,390 B2
Elevator guide
Andrew James Laughton, Ellicott City, MD (US); and Jeffrey Lachica Geroso, Baltimore, MD (US)
Assigned to ELEVATOR SAFETY COMPANY, Owings Mills, MD (US)
Filed by ELEVATOR SAFETY COMPANY, Owings Mills, MD (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/579,895.
Application 17/579,895 is a division of application No. 16/373,834, filed on Apr. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,261,057.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144589 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B66B 7/04 (2006.01); B66B 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 7/046 (2013.01) [B66B 7/023 (2013.01); B66B 7/048 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An elevator guide configured to ride along an elevator rail, the elevator guide comprising:
(a) a base configured to be attached to a component that rides on one or more elevator rails, a first guide configured to ride along a corresponding surface of a rail member of the elevator rail, a first spring biasing said first guide in contact with said corresponding surface of the rail member of the elevator rail and a first guide support member having a connection portion rotatably connected to said base so that said first guide support member can rotate about an axis relative to said base, said first guide support member further including a guide connection portion for connecting the first guide support member to said first guide for movably supporting said first guide on said base so that said first guide can move toward and away from the corresponding surface of the rail member of the elevator rail; and,
(b) said first guide support member being configured to allow a position that said first spring contacts said first guide support member to be varied along a longitudinal axis of said first guide support member to vary a system effective spring rate.