US 12,304,777 B2
Sliding guide shoe for an elevator
Patrick Bumann, Eschenbach (CH); and Volker Zapf, Kriens-Obernau (CH)
Assigned to INVENTIO AG, Hergiswil (CH)
Appl. No. 17/907,284
Filed by Inventio AG, Hergiswil (CH)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/057980
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/198092, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20167249 (EP), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0113353 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B66B 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 7/047 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sliding guide shoe for an elevator to guide an elevator car or a counterweight, the sliding guide shoe having a guide shoe housing and an insert inserted into the guide shoe housing, the sliding guide shoe comprising:
a bore formed in the guide shoe housing for positionally securing the insert; and
the insert having a pin engaged in the bore, wherein the pin includes profiling in the form of a non-circular outer profile which is uniform in cross-section extending in an axial direction of the pin, the cross-section forming a star-shaped star polygon and the profiling being form-fitted in the bore.