Elevator door arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016236908-A1
Application number	US-201615010534-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Feb 12, 2015
Publication date	Aug 18, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention refers to an Elevator door arrangement having at least one door leaf comprising a support structure and at least one door panel having a back part facing away from the public and a front part facing the public, which door panel is supported in the support structure of the door leaf. The door panel is configured to be supported in the support structure either with its back part or front part facing the public, as desired. This invention allows a protected use of a door panel during construction time use.

First claim

1 . Elevator door arrangement having at least one door leaf comprising at least one door panel having a back part facing away from the public and a front part facing the public, which door panel is configured to be supported in a support structure of a door supporter mounted at the elevator car or elevator shaft wall, characterized in that the door panel is configured to be supported in the support structure either with a back part or front part front, as desired.

2 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the door panel is releasably supported in the support structure.

3 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the door panel has a symmetrical structure with respect to its central plane.

4 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the front part embraces the edges of the door panel.

5 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the front part is temporarily covered by a protective film.

6 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the back part comprises or consists of an insulating material.

7 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein it has at least two slidable door leaves driven by a car door drive in opposite directions.

8 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the front part consist of a stainless steel plate.

9 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the door panel carries at its upper side at least one door hanger having rollers for running in a track of a door supporter, whereby the door hanger is preferably mountable to the door panel in two positions differing at 180 degrees around a vertical axis.

10 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the door panel carries at its bottom side at least one guide element, e.g. guide roller or guide bolt configured to run in a groove of a door sill, which guide element is preferably located in the central door plane.

11 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the door leaf comprises a fixing structure to which the front part and back part of door panel is/are mounted.

12 . Elevator door arrangement according to claim 11 , wherein support elements and/or drive elements and/or door lock elements of the door leaf are mounted to the fixing structure.

13 . Elevator car having at least one car door arrangement according to claim 1 .

14 . Elevator having at least one door arrangement according to claim 1 at its elevator car and/or at its landings.

15 . Elevator according to claim 14 , having a an elevator car with at least one car door with two slidable door leaves and landing doors with two slidable door leaves at each serviced floor, whereby the door leaves of the car door and landing door are operated by one door drive mounted at the elevator car.

16 . Use of an elevator door arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein during a construction time use the door panels of a car door and/or landing door are supported by the support structure with their back part front and that with the finishing of the construction time use the door panels are released from the support structure, turned around and fixed to the support structure with their front part front.

Assignees

• Talonen Tapani
• Kone Corp

Inventors

• Talonen Tapani

Classifications

• B66B13/303 Primary

  Details of door panels · CPC title

• B66B13/08

  guided for horizontal movement · CPC title

• B66B13/30 Primary

  Constructional features of doors or gates (of interest apart from this application E06B) · CPC title

• B66B19/007

  method for modernisation of elevators · CPC title