US 12,077,415 B2
Apparatus for guiding and braking a travelling body of an elevator system, which body is to be moved along a guide track
Michael Geisshüsler, Sursee (CH); Faruk Osmanbasic, Sins (CH); Adrian Steiner, Inwil (CH); Julian Stähli, Meggen (CH); and Volker Zapf, Kriens-Obernau (CH)
Assigned to INVENTIO AG, Hergiswil (CH)
Appl. No. 17/756,483
Filed by Inventio AG, Hergiswil (CH)
PCT Filed Dec. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/084231
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/110726, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19212903 (EP), filed on Dec. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0049908 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B66B 5/18 (2006.01); B66B 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 5/18 (2013.01) [B66B 7/04 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for guiding and braking a traveling body movable along a guide track, the apparatus comprising:
a holder adapted to be fastened to the traveling body;
a guide device adapted to guide the traveling body on the guide track;
a braking device adapted to brake the traveling body on the guide track;
wherein when the holder is fastened to the traveling body and the guide device is guided on the guide track, guiding forces are transmitted by the holder between the guide device and the traveling body;
wherein the guide device is movable along the guide track in a longitudinal direction of the guide track;
wherein the guide device is held and mounted on the holder such that the guide device is elastically movable relative to the holder only transverse to the longitudinal direction of the guide track by at least a predetermined tolerance distance;
wherein the braking device includes a carrier and a braking element and the braking device is adapted to move the braking element between a deactivated configuration, in which a braking surface of the braking element is laterally spaced apart from the guide track, and an activated configuration, in which the braking surface of the braking element is applied to the guide track, in a reversible manner by an activation distance transverse to the guide track; and
wherein the carrier is rigidly coupled to the guide device such that the carrier follows lateral movements of the guide device relative to the holder.