B - Operations – Transporting – 66 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
66
B
364/35
B66B 5/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1246255
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A traction elevator system having an elevator car and a counterweight. Counterweight derailment, such as due to an earthquake, is detected via a vertically oriented wire strung tautly in the hoistway, a metallic ring on the counterweight which encircles the wire, control connected to the wire for detecting contact between the ring and wire, and a switch on the counterweight which enables the control to detect contact between the ring and wire only after predetermined abnormal horizontal movement of the counterweight.
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Oldham And Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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