METHOD OF MODERNIZING AN ELEVATOR DOOR SYSTEM OF AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION AND MODERNIZATION KIT FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD

• US 20080078628A1
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Inventors: Christen, Jules
• Application Number:
  US11/863,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20080078628A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/319
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/12 Arrangements for effecting simultaneous opening or closing of cage and landing doors
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/20 Lock mechanisms actuated mechanically by abutments or projections on the cages
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 19/007 method for modernisation of elevators

Abstract

A method of modernizing an elevator door system of an elevator installation wherein a door drive together with a car door/shaft door coupling, which is mounted at a car door in a door opening region thereof, and a shaft door lock, which is mounted at a shaft door in a door opening region of the same, are replaced. A new door drive and a new car door/shaft door coupling are arranged at the car, wherein the fastening points of the new coupling are arranged in the region above the door opening and a new shaft door lock is arranged at the original shaft door in correspondence with the arrangement of the new car door/shaft door coupling above the door opening of the shaft door.

Claims

1. A method of modernizing an elevator door system of an elevator installation, wherein the original elevator door system comprises:

at least one original car door arranged at a car,

an original door drive which drives the original car door,

an original car door/shaft door coupling which is mounted at the original car door, wherein fastening points of the coupling are arranged in a door opening region when the original car door is closed,

at least one shaft door arranged at a floor of the elevator installation, and

an original shaft door lock, which is mounted at the shaft door and which locks the shaft door when no engagement of the original car door/shaft door coupling is present and enables opening of the shaft door when the coupling is in engagement with the original shaft door lock, wherein the fastening points of the original shaft door lock are arranged in the region of the door opening when the shaft door is closed,

comprising the following method steps;

a. demounting the original door drive and the original car door/shaft door coupling;

b. mounting a new door drive and a new car door/shaft door coupling at the car, wherein fastening points of the new coupling are arranged in a region above the door opening;

c. demounting the original shaft door lock; and

d. mounting a new shaft door lock at the shaft door in correspondence with the arrangement of the new car door/shaft door coupling.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein first the original door drive and the original car door/shaft door coupling are converted by performing said steps a. and b., and subsequently the original shaft door lock of a lowermost floor is converted by performing said steps c. and d. and adjusted, subsequently an original shaft door lock of a next higher floor is converted by performing said steps c. and d. and adjusted and this process is repeated for original shaft door locks of each next higher disposed floor until all the original shaft door locks belonging to the elevator installation are converted and adjusted.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the at least one original car door is replaced within the scope of the modernization by a new car door or that an entire car body with car doors, a door drive and a car door/shaft door coupling is replaced within the scope of the modernization.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the original door drive is a crank drive and the new door drive is a linearly moved drive means, wherein a flexible traction means guided and driven by drive means pulleys is used.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the new shaft door lock is connected by a wire or a Bowden pull with an emergency unlocking lock present in the shaft door.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the new shaft door lock is connected with the shaft door by an intermediate plate.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the new shaft door lock is integrated in the shaft door by a door carrier plate in that an original door roller support is demounted and replaced by a new door carrier plate, wherein the new door carrier plate offers connecting points for door guide rollers and the new shaft door lock.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein counter-members belonging to the original shaft door lock are positioned with respect to the new shaft door lock by means of an assembly template.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein the counter-members include at least one of an electrical contact and a locking plate.

10. A modernization kit for modernizing an elevator door system of an elevator installation, wherein the modernization kit includes of two groups of components, a first group comprising

a door drive, and

at least one car door/shaft door coupling,

and a second group comprising

shaft door locks and intermediate plates or door carrier plates at least corresponding with a number of floors of the elevator installation,

wherein the components of the first group are parts for conversion of the car door system and the components of the second group are parts for conversion of the shaft door system.