EP1254070B1 - Procede d'installation d'ascenseurs - Google Patents

Procede d'installation d'ascenseurs Download PDF

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EP1254070B1
EP1254070B1 EP00985778A EP00985778A EP1254070B1 EP 1254070 B1 EP1254070 B1 EP 1254070B1 EP 00985778 A EP00985778 A EP 00985778A EP 00985778 A EP00985778 A EP 00985778A EP 1254070 B1 EP1254070 B1 EP 1254070B1
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Domenico Otis S.p.A. CRIVELLARO
Donato Otis S.p.A. IRIDE
Leonida Otis S.p.A. LORQUANDO
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B19/00—Mining-hoist operation

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  • the Invention relates to a method for installing elevators, comprising the following steps:
  • EP-A-0 464 312 discloses a method for mounting rails which guide an elevator in a hoist way, a truncated car being used as a working platform for mounting and aligning the rails one above the other.
  • the truncated car however is lifted by a hydraulic cylinder.
  • the invention relates to an innovative method for installing both oleo-dynamic and electric elevators.
  • the above method involves different drawbacks, among which the fact that the mounting activity within the opening must be interrupted after having placed the guides and having mounted the plane doors, to wait that the building yard operators provide the dismounting of the same scaffold.
  • the solution suggested according to the present invention has the advantage of not requiring the use of hooks from the ceiling of the opening, so that a reduction of the risks during the working activity is obtained, as well as a reduction of the costs for the client.
  • said guides can have a standard length of 5 meters, the anchorages being fixed at a distance of 166 cm each other.
  • said device for moving the arcade can be of the manual, electric or hydraulic kind.
  • said auxiliary safety gear apparatus is realised in such a way to allow the upward motion of the car without requiring any action by the technician.
  • said auxiliary safety gear apparatus can be comprised of a pair of teeth able to rest, in case of malfunctioning of the safety gear apparatus of the elevator, on the fixing brackets of the car guides.
  • said teeth must be suitably sized to support the weight, during the motion, of arcade, car, materials to be lifted and operators.
  • said car is hooked to the new support beam, exploiting a traction hydraulic device or other device.
  • the auxiliary safety gear has the function of second safety device only for the period during which the lifting apparatus is disconnected from the arcade to position it again on the upper bracket group just installed.
  • (standard) guides having length from 1 to 5 meters, are employed, with wall fixing brackets 2, placed, for example in the solution of figures 1 and 2, at a distance of 166 cm each other, except for the first lower fixing at a distance of 143 cm from the ditch floor.
  • auxiliary safety gear apparatus 11 (see particularly figures 8 and 9) comprised of a pair of teeth 12, that must be able to rest, in case of malfunctioning of the safety gear of the elevator (not shown), on the fixing brackets 2 of the guides 1 of the car 9.
  • Said teeth 12 must be suitably dimensioned to support the weight, during the motion, of arcade 6, car 9, materials to be lifted and workers.
  • the teeth 12 of the auxiliary safety gear apparatus 11 are always in a potentially power takeoff position, since they work under gravity.
  • the teeth and the control lever of the standard auxiliary safety gear apparatus of the elevator are operated, in such a way not to be anymore in a power takeoff condition by two pulling ropes 13, one of which allowing the return of the two teeth, and the other one unlocking the two safety gear devices (one for each guide 1).
  • the above pulling device can be indifferently a pedal or manual control device.
  • the auxiliary safety gear apparatus 11 is designed in such a way to allow the upward of the car 9, without any need of an action by the technician, thanks to a spring and counterweights system, that an be seen from figure 9, the same that, when the car 9 is stopped, automatically blocks, under the only gravity effect, every downward movement, while allowing the upward motion when the back of the teeth 12 meets, ascending, the upper brackets 2.
  • the auxiliary apparatus 11 allows the lowering only by the action of the technician, acting on the manual or pedal control, so allowing the unlocking of the safety gear and at the same time the lifting of the teeth 12 of the auxiliary safety gear 11.
  • control lever of the standard safety gear apparatus of the elevator is connected, by a further rope, to the same control device.; acting on the control, it will be at the same time possible both the unlocking of the safety gear and of the auxiliary safety gear 11.
  • the third group of anchorages and the coupling plates are fixed, for the second guide 1 set, and it is positioned the new lifting support beam 13 between the two anchorages, hooking a traction hydraulic device 14, shown in figure 18, or any other device acting in this way.
  • car 9 can be mounted lifting the same up to reaching the anchorages group.
  • the auxiliary safety gear 11 has the function of a second safety device, only for the period during which the arcade 6 lifting apparatus is disconnected, to position the same on the just installed upper bracket group 2.
  • the auxiliary safety gear 11 allows the descent of the car 9 only for the few centimetres separating the same from the anchorage bracket 2 of the just below guides 1.
  • the support beam 13 of the lifting device can be again lifted and positioned on the just installed anchorages group 2, and car 9 can be lifted, and so on, until ending the mounting of the last guide set.
  • each possible lowering is realised actuating by the manual or pedal control, allowing the contemporaneous unlocking of the safety gear and of the auxiliary safety gear 11, and the consequent actuation of the actuating device in the opposite direction.

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  1. Procédé pour installer un élévateur dans un compartiment de levage, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes suivantes consistant à :
    - fournir une matrice qui peut être installée directement de la réception du plancher supérieur au système de plomberie inférieur ;
    - placer une matrice creuse inférieure ;
    - fixer un premier jeu de quatre dispositifs de guidage (1) et un premier groupe de supports (2) au compartiment de levage ;
    - fixer un cadre de véhicule comportant les blocs de sécurité appropriés entre le premier jeu de quatre dispositifs de guidage (1) et le premier groupe de supports (2) ;
    - fixer un dispositif mobile en vue du déplacement suivant du cadre de véhicule ;
    - monter un plancher de véhicule sur le cadre de véhicule et un deuxième groupe de supports fixé aux quatre dispositifs de guidage (1) ;
    - monter le véhicule en utilisant son toit comme un plan de travail, après avoir fixé une balustrade de sécurité sur le même toit ;
    - installer un appareil auxiliaire de sécurité à engrenage (11) pour l'élévateur, prévu avec un mécanisme de commande ;
    - relier un levier de commande d'un appareil de sécurité à engrenage de l'élévateur audit dispositif de commande à l'aide d'une corde ;
    - fixer un troisième groupe de supports (2) et des plaques de liaison pour les deuxièmes jeux de dispositifs de guidage (1) ;
    - placer un barreau de support de levage sur le troisième jeu de supports (2) de telle manière qu'il soit capable de déplacer le véhicule (9), élever celui-ci jusqu'à ce qu'il atteigne ledit troisième groupe de supports ;
    - fixer un groupe suivant de supports et élever un deuxième jeu suivant de dispositifs de guidage (1), fixer celui-ci après qu'il a été raccordé ;
    - élever de nouveau le barreau de support (13) du dispositif de levage, placer celui-ci sur le groupe de supports qui vient d'être installé de sorte que le véhicule (9) puisse être élevé de nouveau, et répéter les étapes nécessaires pour le montage d'autres jeux de dispositifs de guidage de l'élévateur jusqu'à ce que le montage du dernier jeu de dispositifs de guidage (1) soit terminé ; et
    - soumettre l'élévateur à une traction sous l'action de cordes de traction.
  2. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que lesdits dispositifs de guidage ont une longueur standard de 5 mètres, les dispositifs de fixation étant fixés à une distance de 166 cm les uns des autres..
  3. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, dans le cas où les élévateurs nécessiteraient des points de fixation à une distance inférieure, il serait possible d'utiliser d'autres supports.
  4. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit dispositif destiné à déplacer le cadre de véhicule est de type manuel, électrique ou hydraulique.
  5. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit appareil auxiliaire de sécurité à engrenage est relié par une corde à un dispositif de commande à pédale ou manuel.
  6. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit appareil auxiliaire de sécurité à engrenage est réalisé de telle manière qu'il permet le déplacement vertical du véhicule sans qu'une action du technicien soit nécessaire.
  7. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit appareil auxiliaire de sécurité à engrenage se compose d'une paire de dents capables de reposer, en cas d'un dysfonctionnement de l'appareil de sécurité à engrenage de l'élévateur, sur les supports de fixation des dispositifs de guidage du véhicule.
  8. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdites dents sont dimensionnées de manière appropriée afin de supporter, durant le déplacement, le poids du cadre de véhicule, du véhicule, des matériaux qui doivent être élevés, et des opérateurs.
  9. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit véhicule est accroché au nouveau barreau de support en utilisant un dispositif hydraulique de traction ou un autre dispositif.
  10. Procédé pour installer des élévateurs selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit appareil auxiliaire de sécurité à engrenage à la fonction d'un deuxième dispositif de sécurité que pendant la période durant laquelle l'appareil élévateur n'est pas relié au cadre de véhicule, afin de le placer de nouveau sur le groupe supérieur de supports qui vient d'être installé.
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IT1999RM000744A IT1308029B1 (it) 1999-12-06 1999-12-06 Metodo per l'installazione di elevatori.
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PCT/IT2000/000506 WO2001044096A1 (fr) 1999-12-06 2000-12-06 Procede d'installation d'ascenseurs

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