EP0881188B1 - Stair-climbing device - Google Patents

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EP0881188B1
EP0881188B1 EP98830216A EP98830216A EP0881188B1 EP 0881188 B1 EP0881188 B1 EP 0881188B1 EP 98830216 A EP98830216 A EP 98830216A EP 98830216 A EP98830216 A EP 98830216A EP 0881188 B1 EP0881188 B1 EP 0881188B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B9/00—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B66B9/06—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures inclined, e.g. serving blast furnaces
    • B66B9/08—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures inclined, e.g. serving blast furnaces associated with stairways, e.g. for transporting disabled persons
    • B66B9/0838—Levelling gears
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B9/00—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B66B9/06—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures inclined, e.g. serving blast furnaces
    • B66B9/08—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures inclined, e.g. serving blast furnaces associated with stairways, e.g. for transporting disabled persons
    • B66B9/0807—Driving mechanisms
    • B66B9/0815—Rack and pinion, friction rollers

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  • the present invention relates to stair-climbing devices which are used for enable a person, such as a handicapped person, to climb or coming down a stairway while being carried for example on a chair or a platform.
  • the object of the invention is that of providing a stair-climbing device of the above indicated type which on one hand has a relatively simple and inexpensive structure and on the other hand is safe and reliable in use as well as able of high performances.
  • a stair-climbing device of the above indicated type which on one hand has a relatively simple and inexpensive structure and on the other hand is safe and reliable in use as well as able of high performances.
  • Such a device is known from DE-U-9211115.7.
  • the invention provides a stair-climbing device, characterized in that it comprises:
  • Figure 1 shows, by way of example, a preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention for which two parallel guiding rails 2 are provided along a stairway 3.
  • the stair-climbing device according to the invention generally designated by 1, comprises a supporting frame 4, shown only diagrammatically in the drawings) which is for supporting a structure for carrying a person, such as a chair, or a platform, which is not shown in the drawings, both because it can be made in any known way, and because it does not fall, taken alone, within the scope of the present invention, and finally also because the deletion of these details from the drawings renders the latter simpler and easier to understand.
  • the embodiment which is shown in the drawings has two guiding rails 2.
  • the structure 4 of the device is provided in this case with two trolleys 5 which respectively engage the two rails 2 and are pivotally mounted on structure 4 around respective horizontal axes 6.
  • Figure 1 shows the device 1 at a starting position at the bottom of the stairway by undotted lines on the left, and the same device at an intermediate position and at a position proximate to the final position at the top of the stairway by dotted lines, at the center and on the right of figure 1.
  • the device according to the invention could have a single guiding rail 2 and a single trolley 5, as it will be also clarified in the following.
  • FIGS 2 through 5 show the structure of a preferred embodiment of the trolley 5.
  • the trolley includes a substantially C-shaped supporting frame 7, including a vertical wall 8 and two opposite horizontal walls 9.
  • the vertical wall 8 has a central hub 8a which is freely rotatably mounted, by means of a bearing 10, within a hole 11 of a wall 12 forming part of the supporting structure 4 of the device, to which the person carrying structure (such as a chair or a platform) is to be rigidly connected.
  • the two opposite walls 9 of the C-shaped frame 7 rotatably support a shaft 13a around an axis 13 orthogonal to these walls, by means of roller bearings 14, the shaft 13a carrying a powered roller 15 provided with an outer rubber layer 16 and pressed into frictional engagement with the guiding rail 2.
  • each guiding rail 2 is constituted by a metal profile having a rectangular cross-section with two vertical side walls 2a, 2b, an upper wall 2c and a lower wall 2d.
  • the powered roller 15 can be driven in rotation by a driving shaft 17 which is rotatably supported around an axis 6 which crosses axes 13 orthogonally to the latter.
  • the driving shaft 17 is rotatably mounted by means of roller bearings 19 within the hub 8a.
  • the shaft 17 has one end projecting outwardly from the C-shaped frame 7 which is to be connected in rotation by means of a transmission of any known type (not shown) to an electric motor of any suitable type (not shown) fixed to the supporting structure 4.
  • the shaft 17 On the side opposite to its outer end, the shaft 17 carries a toothed wheel 20 arranged inside the C-shaped frame 7, which transmits rotation to the powered roller 15 by means of two diametrically opposite shafts 21 which are freely rotatably supported by wall 8 and each carrying a toothed wheel 22 meshing with wheel 20, and a bevel gear 23 meshing with a bevel gear 24 mounted on the shaft 13a of the powered roller 15.
  • Reference numeral 25, in figure 2 designates a structure for supporting the guiding rail 2, shown diagrammatically, by which the rail is rigidly connected to the stairs or a wall adjacent thereto.
  • the trolley 5 is provided with a rocker structure 26 (shown alone in figure 5) which includes an upper wall 27, a lower wall 28 and connecting vertical walls 29.
  • the rocker structure 26 is freely pivotally mounted around the axis 13.
  • the walls 27, 28 are pivotally mounted on shaft 13a by means of roller bearings 30.
  • the two walls 27, 28 have apertures 27a, 28a for avoiding interference with two arms 31, 32 which project inwardly from the opposite walls 9 of the C-shaped frame 7 and support an upper wheel 35 and a lower wheel 36 by bearing 33, 34, which wheels are freely rotatable and roll on the upper surface 2c and the lower surface 2d of the guiding rail 2, acting thereby as a guide for movement of trolley 5 along the rail 2 and also causing the entire weight of the supporting structure 4 and any person carried thereby to be discharged on the guiding rail by means of trolley 5, without stressing the powered roller 15.
  • spring means such as a helical spring 41, are interposed between the rocker structure 26 (for example at one edge of aperture 27a of wall 27) and the C-shaped frame 7 (such as at arm 31 on which the upper guiding wheel 35 is rotatably mounted) for tending to rotate the rocker structure 26, with respect to frame 7 of trolley 5, to a position in which the guiding rail 2 is clamped from opposite sides between the powered roller 15 and the counter-wheels 39, 40.
  • the helical spring 41 has one end received in a hole 42 formed in one edge of aperture 27a, this spring resting against a threaded grain 43 screwed into hole 42, for adjusting the load of the spring.
  • spring 41 abuts against a surface of arm 31 on which the upper guiding wheel 35 is rotatably mounted.
  • the load of the spring means which naturally can be made and arranged in any other way different from that which has been illustrated, is such that the powered roller 15 is pressed against the guiding rail 2 to an extent sufficient to assure the frictional engagement. In particular, it is thus assured that when the powered roller 15 is driven in rotation it causes a translation of trolley 5 along the rail. Conversely, when the rotation of roller 15 is stopped, the pressure exchanged between roller 15 and guiding rail 2 is such to assure that the trolley is motionless relative to the rail, even considering the weight of the whole structure and any carried person, in a climbing portion of the stairs.
  • the counter wheels 39, 40 can be connected to the driving motor so that they also are powered wheels.
  • the two trolleys 5 are automatically arranged with their axis 13 constantly orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the guiding wheels 2. At the same time, since the two trolleys 5 are both freely pivotally mounted around the respective axes 6 on the same supporting structure 4, the latter always remains properly oriented.
  • the proper orientation of the supporting structure 4 can be assured by providing for example a small motor for correcting the attitude which imparts a rotation to structure 4 such as to nullify the rotation which would be transmitted by trolley 5 when it changes its orientation while passing through portions of different inclination of the guiding rail 2.
  • the device according to the invention is able of transporting relatively high loads safely upwardly and downwardly on even sharp stairs, at the speed which is requested in such applications.
  • the structure of the device is also relatively simple and inexpensive.

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ITTO970456 1997-05-28
IT97TO000456A IT1293909B1 (it) 1997-05-28 1997-05-28 Dispositivo monta-scale, particolarmente per inabili.

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