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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141686 | Corner lift device A lifting device is provided in a wall corner of a room in a building at an intersection of a first wall and a second wall. The device includes a vertical guide rail mounted to the first wall right angle corner point and to a second wall right angle corner point. A ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8104587 | Elevator car An elevator car consists of a floor, side walls, a back wall and a roof which are each constructed in a modular manner from a plurality of panels and which can be held together by means of connecting elements. The floor is formed from, in total, eight floor panels. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7905331 | Car wall arrangement for an elevator car A car wall arrangement for an elevator car having a first car wall, on whose outside is arranged at least one first joining element with a first flange that projects beyond a first end-face of the first car wall and is angled from the outside by a joining angle that... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7810611 | Elevator car assembly having an adjustable platform An elevator car assembly (14) includes a frame (28) having a horizontal plank beam (36) beneath a platform assembly (34). A plurality of braces (44) support the platform assembly (34) relative to the frame. The braces (44... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7665582 | Elevator car with a working platform The invention concerns an elevator system comprising an elevator car with a working platform arranged for carrying people or materials and which by means of the interaction between a gear wheel and gear rack can be moved along an elongated generally vertical mast co... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7635049 | Method and apparatus for installing an elevator during the construction of a building The invention also relates to a method for installing an elevator provided with a machine room and suspended by hoisting ropes (15) and moving along guide rails (2) during the construction stage of building. The elevator is provided with a hoisting dev... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7568557 | Elevator car with car electrical system integrated in the car roof and method of mounting an elevator installation A portion of an elevator car electrical system, such as car computer, terminals, communication apparatus, etc., is mounted in an apparatus space integrated into a car roof. The apparatus space is arranged along a car roof edge and utilizes a constructional height re... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7523809 | Elevator top of car safety An elevator car (2) comprises a cover (14; 40) extending over at least a portion of the top surface of the car (24). The cover (14; 40) is mounted on a resilient support (28, 42). The car (2) further comprises means (32; ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7510056 | Roof railing for an elevator car adapted to be collapsed with a handle actuating all sides at the same time The invention relates to an elevator car roof railing (1) with collapsible sides (13) hinged on a supporting frame (5) on the car roof (3), characterized in that it includes: two sides (13) that can be folded inwards as an accordio... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7469773 | Assistant ceiling device for shielding escape hatch of an elevator An assistant ceiling device designed to shield an escape hatch installed to a ceiling of an elevator cab is provided. The assistant ceiling device includes two elongated rail guides and a rectangular assistant ceiling plate. Each guide is installed at either side of... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7410032 | Pulley arrangement for elevators An elevator cage made up of a car, a support member connected to the car, and a pulley box housing a pair of pulleys mounted to the pulley box by pulley axles. The pulley box is mounted to the support member through one or more points located below a first line P bi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407041 | Method of constructing an elevator installation, and elevator installation for that purpose A method of constructing an elevator installation having a support plate with a drive unit in a first installation position, an elevator car and a counterweight and in which the drive unit is connected by a support cable with the elevator car and the counterweight. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7364019 | Machine-room-less traction sheave elevator The present invention is about a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car that runs on guide rails placed in the shaft and connected to at least one hoisting rope un-coiling on a diverting pulley driven by a traction sheave. The... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7337880 | Elevator car with lowerable roof An elevator car has a lowerable car roof portion serving in the lowered state as a maintenance platform. The lowerable car roof portion is stabilized in the lowered position against movements in a horizontal plane by at least one mechanical device engaging the car r... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334852 | Multiple configuration shelving system for displaying audio visual components A shelving system for displaying audio visual components that may be configured into multiple positions is disclosed. The system includes a base that supports a center platform disposed between right and left platforms. The center platform and the right and left pla... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331424 | Elevator apparatus In an elevator apparatus, multiple cars are raised and lowered within a hoistway. The cars within the hoistway are adjacent to each other when located at the same height. If at least one of the cars is defined as a first car and a car adjacent to the first car is de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325656 | Elevator installation with device for noise reduction An elevator installation includes an elevator car that moves in an elevator shaft with shaft doors and which car has at least one car apron arranged parallel to a plane of a shaft wall at a shaft door side. A device for reducing noises generated by the air flow aris... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322445 | Stop bar for creating a temporary safety space within an elevator hoistway A device and procedure for creating and securing a temporary safety space within an elevator hoistway such that a service or maintenance technician can work with impunity from a car entering the safety space. In particular, the device includes a stop bar for install... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7305329 | Method for lobby and common area interior A lobby or other public space design process for providing an attractive appearance complementary to a building in which the lobby is installed, by (a) Evaluating a building for determination of appropriate lobby interior design ar... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293631 | Machine room-less elevator There is provided an machineroom-less elevator which can reduce the pit depth in a bottom part of an elevator shaft, mostly perform maintenance work on an upper space of a cage, and reduce a top clearance. A pair of right and left cage-side sheaves are disposed in t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287624 | Double deck elevator A double deck elevator comprising an upper cage and a lower cage vertically movable together in a hositway, wherein a space between the upper cage and the lower cage is covered by covers. The covers guide airflow flowing around the space to reduce air turbulence noi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284640 | System of enhancing air quality used for buildings A system of enhancing air quality for buildings is proposed. The system includes a multi level building having a hoistway vertically extending through at least two levels of the building, for receiving a car vertically moving therein. The system further includes at ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281609 | Elevator inspection safety devices An elevator car includes a cross-head portion and a balustrade mounted to the cross-head portion. The balustrade is moveable from a retracted position for normal operation of the car to a deployed position for inspection operation of the car. The car further include... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7261185 | Equipment for fine positioning of a car of a multi-stage car A multi-stage elevator car has equipment for fine positioning of the cars wherein the car thresholds are positionable at the level of the floor thresholds. The fine positioning adjusting equipment operates on the principle of a double lever and moves a car frame alo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258202 | Creation of temporary safety spaces for elevators The invention provides an elevator having a car movable along guide rails mounted in a shaft. The elevator comprises an inspection control station mounted on top of the car and accessible via a movable control station cover, blocking means for selectively preventing... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7234684 | Hoisting device with load measuring mechanism and method for determining the load of hoisting devices A hoisting device, especially a cable or chain block, with a hoisting transmission having at least one shaft and with a hoisting load measuring mechanism. In order to determine the hoisting load as accurately as possible and possibly independent of the reeving and w... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225902 | Elevator In an elevator apparatus, a car that is raised and lowered within a hoistway has a car frame and a cage supported on the car frame. Chamfered portions are provided at corner portions of the cage. The car frame has vertical columns arranged along the chamfered portio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7161663 | Lithographic apparatus In an immersion-type lithographic apparatus, in which a surface of a substrate is immersed in liquid during an exposure operation, the substrate is held against a substrate table. On completion of the exposure operation, the substrate is lifted clear of the substrat... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140473 | Safety top balustrade for a car of a machine room-less elevator Safety top balustrade for a car of a machine room-less elevator which moves in a hoistway, on a wall of which the controller of the elevator is secured, said balustrade comprising:—a fixed structure (21) comprising a plurality of vertical uprights (24 | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137485 | Procedure and apparatus for the installation of an elevator A procedure and an apparatus for plumbing and installing the shaft equipment for an elevator uses a plumbing jig. The plumbing jig is mounted in the upper part of the elevator shaft from the top floor, plumb lines are attached to the plumbing jig from the top floor ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7090056 | Double deck elevator that controls a velocity change during inter-cage distance adjustment A double deck elevator including a winding machine which lifts up/down a cage frame loaded with two cages in a vertical direction, a cage driving unit which changes a relative distance between upper and lower cages, and a cage position controller which starts an int... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077240 | Covers between an upper cage and a lower cage of a double deck elevator A double deck elevator comprising an upper cage and a lower cage vertically movable together in a hositway, wherein a space between the upper cage and the lower cage is covered by covers. The covers guide airflow flowing around the space to reduce air turbulence noi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7017714 | Double deck elevator There is provided a double-deck elevator which does not cause any impacts or vibrations on each cage when adjusting the spacing in the vertical direction between upper and lower cages. Loads on an upper support beam from right and left support arms for hoisting and ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016817 | Method for elevator cab interior An Elevator cab design process for providing an attractive appearance complementary to a building in which the elevator is installed, by a) Evaluating a building for determination of appropriate elevator cab interior design archite... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6902041 | Method and system to select elevator floors using a single control A system enables a handicapped person to select a destination floor in an elevator using a single control and comprises a first mechanism to sequentially enumerate potential destination floors, a second mechanism enabling user selection of a desired destination floo... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6902040 | Elevator car An exit (5) formed in an elevator car (1) is closed by doors (8) of multi-construction including an inner door (6) and an outer door (7). Air is able to flow between a space between the inner door (6) and the outer door (... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6857508 | Elevator hoist machine installation apparatus An apparatus or tool for installing an elevator hoist machine to a support at the top of the vertically extending guide rails. The apparatus includes a carriage for imparting vertical movement to move the hoist machine to the upper end of the guide rails and then ho... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6802396 | Double deck elevator with adjustable floor height A double deck elevator includes a floor height adjusting mechanism that adjusts the distance between the upper and lower decks located within a cage frame. The adjusting mechanism includes a pantograph having an upper portion coupled to the upper deck and lower port... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6786305 | Double-deck elevator A double-decker elevator includes a winch, an upper car, a lower car, a car support frame supporting the upper and lower car, a car space adjusting device capable of adjusting the space between the upper and lower car, and an emergency operation controller. When the... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6739432 | Inspection opening in an elevator car An elevator car is of a construction which facilitates inspection and maintenance function while enhancing passenger safety. The car includes a closeable inspection and maintenance opening in a sidewall. A transparent inspection window or an inspection grille forms ... | 05/25/2004 |
