CN206218991U - A kind of elevator - Google Patents

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CN206218991U
CN206218991U CN201621265770.XU CN201621265770U CN206218991U CN 206218991 U CN206218991 U CN 206218991U CN 201621265770 U CN201621265770 U CN 201621265770U CN 206218991 U CN206218991 U CN 206218991U
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The utility model discloses a kind of elevator, the elevator includes:One isolation wall construction, is arranged between the car and the balance weight, forms car well and balance weight well for isolation, and the vapour lock below the car is formed in the car well;Distribution is provided with the air-vent for controlling the cage descending vapour lock dynamics on the isolation wall construction.Elevator provided by the utility model, as a result of between car well and balancing weight well isolate wall construction and isolation wall construction on set air-vent, realize in the case of rapidly being dropped caused by control failure occurs in car, isolate wall construction by being arranged between car and balance weight, formation precalculate control to car vapour lock, to slow down the decrease speed of car, control car is landed with safe speed, fundamentally improves the security of elevator.

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A kind of elevator
Technical field
The utility model is related to a kind of elevator, more particularly to a kind of elevator and the interval using counterweight well and car well The method for realizing safety from wall construction is improved.
Background technology
The life that the presence of elevator gives people brings great convenience, and is especially towered in building, mine gradually deep the present My god, its security performance is always people's important indicator of interest, it might even be possible to say it is most important index.Elevator is giving people While bringing convenience, potential safety hazard can be also brought, especially with the extension of elevator service life, and safeguard It is incapable not in time, and the carelessness safeguarded, the elevator accident frequently occurred on present society allows people to feel elevator accident " eating " people is suddenly in tiger.
In order to reduce the injures and deaths event that elevator accident brings, the pre-job meeting of many staff is by " elevator accident is saved oneself The such course of knowledge learning ", but this belongs to the method cured the symptoms, not the disease after all, is only capable of guidance learning and crosses in knowledge of saving oneself A minority when the elevator accident that manpower can save oneself is suffered from self rescue, and elevator accident is often uncontrolled when occurring System.
Existing elevator generally include carrying car, drive car move up and down drag running wheel, for balancing car Balance weight is balancing weight, and sets the buffer immediately below car on the ground.The car of prior art is usual with balancing weight It is arranged in same elevator.Although prior art is provided with buffer, but its effect is very little, still there is a large amount of every year Personnel occur unexpected because of elevator faults, and its reason in car because occur in the case that accident such as hoist cable is broken, its car The excessive velocities of decline, cause the possible failure of the stagnant speed variator of self-locking on buffer and car walls, what buffer to be played Cushioning effect is very little, can not reach the effect in anticipation, or even the buffer in load-carrying too high car dramatic decrease Damage directly may be rolled by the car of high-speed motion.It can thus be seen that existing elevator car safety cannot be realized from root The appearance for preventing accident from damaging in sheet, and can not be fallen in Lift out of order according to the decrease speed of elevator and load-carrying number Self-control and protected when falling.
Therefore, prior art has yet to be improved and developed.
Utility model content
In view of above-mentioned the deficiencies in the prior art, the purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of elevator, outstanding in elevator faults When it is power system and the stagnant speed system failure of machinery, can fundamentally slow down car, so that car is kept with usually just Often the speed of operation declines, and fundamentally improves the security of elevator.
The technical solution of the utility model is as follows:
A kind of elevator, is provided with the car for carrying passenger, and band is connected to by flexible connecting member with the car What the dynamic car was moved up and down drags running wheel, and drags running wheel connection, the balance weight for balancing the car by described, its In, the elevator also includes:
One isolation wall construction, is arranged between the car and the balance weight, car well is formed for isolation with balance Block well, and the vapour lock below the car is formed in the car well;
Distribution is provided with for controlling the ventilative of cage descending vapour lock dynamics described in each interval on the isolation wall construction Hole.
In preferred scheme, described elevator, wherein, it is additionally provided with the car for as car load-bearing adjusts institute State the sealing planker of spacing between car and the car borehole wall.
In preferred scheme, described elevator, wherein, the air-vent is set to product shape and is staggered.
In preferred scheme, described elevator, wherein, a wedge-shaped pushing block, the pushing block are fixed with the car The push wheel being fixedly mounted on the sealing planker with an axle is engaged, for adjusting the sealing according to the load-carrying of the car The transverse shifting degree of planker, to adjust the gap between the car and the car borehole wall.
In preferred scheme, described elevator, it is held to levy and is, the rotary shaft of the push wheel is arranged on from the sealing planker On the montant for upwardly extending.
In preferred scheme, described elevator, wherein, the sealing planker is installed on a fixation mutually fixed with the car On plate, and one first elastic component is provided with the fixed plate, is driven when rising for floating base plate in the car described Sealing planker resets.
The application solutions principle of the elevator is:Realize that control is described by the air-vent being distributed on the isolation wall construction Cage descending vapour lock dynamics.
Elevator provided by the utility model, as a result of between car well and balancing weight well isolate wall construction with And the air-vent set on isolation wall construction, realize in the case of rapidly being dropped caused by control failure occurs in car, according to By the wall construction of isolating being arranged between car and balance weight, formation precalculate each interval of control to car vapour lock, to subtract The decrease speed of slow car, control car is landed with safe speed, fundamentally improves the security of elevator.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of elevator preferred embodiment in the utility model.
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of isolation wall construction preferred embodiment in the utility model.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of another preferred embodiment of elevator in the utility model.
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of diaphragm seal preferred embodiment in elevator in the utility model.
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of car in elevator preferred embodiment in the utility model.
Specific embodiment
The utility model provide a kind of elevator, for make the purpose of this utility model, technical scheme and effect it is clearer, Clearly, referring to the drawings and give an actual example to the utility model further describe.It should be appreciated that described herein specific Embodiment is only used to explain the utility model, is not used to limit the utility model.
As shown in figure 1, Fig. 1 is the structural representation of elevator preferred embodiment in the utility model, the utility model is carried The elevator of confession includes:It is provided for carrying the car 100 of passenger, band is connected to by flexible connecting member with the car 100 What the dynamic car 100 was moved up and down drags running wheel 200, and is connected to balance the car 100 with the running wheel 200 of dragging Balance weight 300, is arranged at the isolation wall construction 400 between the car 100 and the balance weight 300, the isolation wall construction 400 By original elevator part(Lower section)Car well and counterweight well are separated into, and have been provided with by pre- on the isolation wall construction First design the air-vent 410 of distribution, and set between car and car well have can controlled adjusting size air gap(At certain In a little embodiments, it is also possible to the air gap of fixed size is set or even is not provided with air gap to ensure between the car and car well Sealing characteristics), such that it is able to control the car 100 after car well is entered, vapour lock is formed from the bottom of the car 100, To prevent the decline of car excess speed in free falling.
To ensure that decrease speed of the car 100 when breaking down can be buffered to safe speed, the utility model The height that the elevator device can be run according to elevator, the dead weight of elevator, so as to know elevator maximum on earth Mechanical kinetic energy, while to consider to need the vapour lock ability by isolating wall construction and its air-vent, designs the depth of car well.Institute The setting distribution mode of air-vent is stated so that above-mentioned purpose as design object can be reached, can be designed by simulated experiment, Can also verify to ensure the reasonability of design by calculations incorporated actual experiment.In specific embodiment of the present utility model In, it can be envisaged that mode include that pore-size distribution from top to bottom can be with difference, it would however also be possible to employ identical aperture, but distribution number Amount is more down less and less.
Air-vent on isolation wall construction described in the utility model had better not be set to the mode of layering, because meeting like that Cause elevator to decline trembling for process, on the one hand make the seating people in car uneasy, be on the other hand likely to cause because trembling Being damaged for car structure, for example, disintegrate, and is likely to result in bigger accident casualty.
It is removable to be connected to the lower end of the car 100 in elevator described in the utility model, it is additionally provided with for sedan-chair The load-bearing conditions in railway carriage or compartment 100 adjust the car 100 and isolates the sealing planker 500 of spacing between wall construction 400, specific such as Fig. 5 It is shown.
The balance weight of elevator in the prior art is side that balancing weight is set with well by the setting of the isolation wall construction 400 Formula, is changed to separate car well 600 and balance weight well 700(The car well 600 is set to key), such as Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 institutes Show;And the specific distribution mode of the air-vent 410 is configured according to the mode for precalculating design.(because every kind of elevator Car specification, section, weight etc. is different)
The setting of the isolation wall construction can be very high, such as with the much the same height of original elevator, but preferably scheme Be provided in bottom, though the setting of its depth and air-vent be sufficient to car that it falls from highest point still being capable of reduction of speed To safe speed;Specifically, the air-vent can be, but not limited to be set to:It is arranged at 7-8 layers of the wall construction of isolation Following air-vent, for controlling the cage descending vapour lock so that decrease speed is to no more than when it is below four layers 1.905m/s;And be arranged at less than 4 layers of air-vent on the isolation wall construction, for control the car lifting vapour lock with Make its travel speed no more than 1m/s at the end of 4 layers.Certainly in the elevator under the utility model technology design, in institute The air-vent set-up mode stated on isolation wall construction obviously can have many kinds, as long as it can reach safety requirements:It is i.e. electric Speed is slow enough when terraced car reaches car bottom, even completely stopping.
In elevator described in the utility model, the multiple described air-vent 410, Ke Yishe set on the isolation wall construction Product shape is set to, as shown in Fig. 2 such set-up mode can ensure that the car 100 can be more steady when declining, without When as by several rows of hole, the vapour lock ability interruption in several rows of hole increases, and causes car excessively severe tremor, to electricity Terraced system easily causes serious infringement, while will also result in serious fear to the passenger in car.
The car 100 drags normal running speed in gravisphere and meets national regulation in the general of running wheel 200 of dragging Be defined, generally 1.75m/s, and lift appliance described in the utility model on isolation wall construction according to being pre-designed the saturating of distribution After stomata, the size and distributed quantity of air-vent can be set so that can reach bottom when 100 dramatic decrease out of control of car Shi Sudu is reduced to zero or is defined no more than 10% higher than regular descent speed, with volume safety.In the utility model preferred embodiment In, can set but be not limited to, when car is drop to from 4 layer height of the bottom, the decrease speed of car 100 is no more than 1.75 meters/s, maximum speed is 1.905m/s, is below analogized, and 4 to 3 layers is to reduce to 1.31 meter per seconds, 3 to 2 layers by 1.75 meter per seconds Then to reduce to 0.87 meter per second by 1.31 meter per seconds, 2 to 1 layers is then to reduce to 0.43 meter per second by 0.87 meter per second, lowermost layer be then by 0.43 meter per second reduces to 0m/s.This is also originally lift car regular descent slowing down in advance to reach stable speed to terminal, The air-vent set on the isolation wall construction, can be by precalculating or testing repeatedly, with reference to car and car well Seal coordinates, so as to realize that the decline of car in the case of without any other resistance, can still realize safety.
In the utility model embodiment, the car 100 can be square type or cylindrical type, its with drag running wheel 200 and balance Block 300 is preferably connected by wirerope, and the balance weight 300 is that balancing weight is used to balance the car 100, and its weight is generally sedan-chair Weight of the own wt of railway carriage or compartment 100 plus its 50% maximum load.When the car 100 is moved up and down, the balance weight 300 is anti- Direction is lower upper movement.It is described drag running wheel 200 by the wirerope pull car 100, and the motion for dragging running wheel 200 then according to Driven by connected motor, the drive control up and down of car is prior art in elevator technology, be will not be repeated here.Need It should be noted that when the car is cylindrical type, car well where it can be cylindrical type, and annular is formed with cylindrical type car Ventilation space, the sealing planker carries out adaptability setting according to different situations.
A unidirectional distinguished and admirable valve 800 can also be set on the isolation wall construction 400, as shown in Fig. 2 its position can set It is the bottom of car well setting in the elevator, i.e., is less than the car extreme lower position on the isolation wall construction 400 Lower section.The unidirectional distinguished and admirable valve 800 is really the unidirectional vent passages set between car well and counterweight well, and it is in the isolation Air channel on wall construction could be arranged to one or two or more, and be opened to the side overthe openings of the car well in air channel Be provided with a closing cap, the air channel opening can be closed by gravity, especially car normally fall or failure freedom under During falling, the closing cap should have certain thickness and intensity, to resist the maximum vapour lock punching when car falls Power is hit, and guarantee will not be punched through, and be acted on the vapour lock played to car.And when the car rises, because car is to sedan-chair Car well space below railway carriage or compartment can form certain negative pressure, to reduce the car jacking system because overcoming negative pressure and surcharge work(, The closing cap can be opened because of negative pressure, with the draught head between rapid equalisation car well and counterweight well.
One seal assembly 490 can also be set on the air-vent 410, as shown in figure 3, the seal assembly includes one Closure plate 440, as shown in figure 4, it forms the structure of the covering air-vent 410, institute when the value that is under pressure is more than preset value State diaphragm seal 440 normally rotatably to remain on, only worked by air-vent 410;The branch of the diaphragm seal 440 Support and closure can isolates wall construction hinge by the sliding connection block 461 that is arranged on the diaphragm seal 440, and one end with described The rotatable connection bar 462 that connects is completed, and the sliding connection block 461 is set can be slided along the inner side of the closure plate 440, together When, the other end of the rotatable connection bar 462 is hinged the sliding connection block 461.Can be provided with the diaphragm seal 440 For chute or guide rail for the slide-and-guide of the sliding connection block 461, when the car 100 or sealing planker 500 rapidly under When the brought air flow pressure of drop is excessive, the clossing pressure of diaphragm seal 440 causes the sliding connection block 461 along the cunning Groove or guide rail are moved up, described to rotate the one end of connecting rod 462 under the drive of the sliding connection block 461 with moving with it, So as to change original opening degree, or even closure air-vent.
The setting purpose of the above-mentioned diaphragm seal 440 of the utility model, is the sedan-chair when the car 100 is declined with normal speed Railway carriage or compartment 100 or sealing planker 500 decline driven air pressure and are insufficient to allow diaphragm seal 440 to close, and air passes through air-vent 410 Pass through between car well 600 and balance well 700.And in 100 dramatic decrease of car, car 100 or sealing are dragged The air pressure when air flow pressure that the outside of plate 500 is formed is by much larger than normal lifting, then force diaphragm seal 440 to be subject to Air-flow motive force drive, be posted by it is described isolation wall construction 400 on, diaphragm seal 440 directly covers the air-vent 410, So as to further reduce the air outflow under car 100, the air drag under car 100 is increased.
Lift appliance provided by the utility model, as a result of above-mentioned isolation wall construction, be arranged at the car and Car well and balance weight well are formed between the balance weight, for isolation, and is formed below the car in the car well Vapour lock;The air-vent 410 for controlling the cage descending vapour lock is provided with the isolation wall construction;So that elevator by Traditional car is partitioned into car well and balance weight well with balance weight with well.
In further embodiment, the utility model causes that elevator can normally be arranged in normal operation by air-vent 410 Go out gas under car, it is ensured that the normal lifting of car;And the setting in car dramatic decrease due to isolating wall construction causes place A large amount of gases below car have little time to be discharged by air-vent 410, so that the elevator can fail in power system, In the case of particularly car loses and drags and rapidly drop caused by running wheel constraint and other safety measure failures, by being arranged at Isolate wall construction between car and balance weight, by the tightness between car well and car, by car lower air Vapour lock, air drag improves the security of elevator to slow down with finally close to the speed of normal cage descending under increase car.
In elevator device described in the utility model, further, a loading plate is additionally provided with the bottom of the car 100 120, as shown in figure 5, it can be moved up and down with respect to car, depending on the load capacity in car;The sealing phase of planker 500 To the fixed plate 110 can transverse shifting, be fixed with a wedge-shaped pushing block 121 with the loading plate 120(Can be by connection guide It is fixed, so that the amount of load metamorphism is transferred to outside car from car), the inclined-plane of the wedge-shaped pushing block 121 is inwardly downward Set, be engaged with the inclined-plane of the pushing block 121 and be provided with a push wheel 510, the rotary shaft of the push wheel 510 is perpendicular by a guide rod To being arranged on the sealing planker 500, the sealing planker 500 can be movably disposed at a fixed plate with relatively transverse On 110, the second elastic component 650 is provided between the fixed plate 110 and the loading plate 120, so as to according in car Load capacity adjusts the spacing between the fixed plate 110 and the loading plate 120, and the adjustment of the spacing passes through pushing block 121 are pushed outwardly the sealing planker 500 with the cooperation of the push wheel 510.To ensure the pushing block 121 and push wheel 510 Holding mated condition, it is described sealing planker 500 and fixed plate 110 between be provided with the first elastic component 640.
When being carried in the car when varying in weight, such as when people is more, the car is together with the wedge-shaped pushing block 121 Can decline, the push wheel 510 can be pushed out by the inclined-plane on pushing block 121, so as to drive the sealing phase of planker 500 Should be displaced outwardly, such that it is able to change the gap length between car and the car borehole wall, such as people diminishes when many, so as to produce The larger vapour lock of life, provides bigger vapour lock dynamics so that car can be decelerated to safe range when falling with to car It is interior.
To ensure that the sealing planker 500 can reset in time, between the sealing planker 500 and fixed plate 110 also The first elastic component 640 is provided with, as shown in Figure 5.
The utility model also provides a kind of safety implementation method for being applied to elevator as described above, by setting dividing wall knot Structure 400, car well and counterweight well are divided into by elevator, and using between car and car well can controlled change gap side Vapour lock suffered by formula change car, can decelerate in safe range with to car when failure free falling is run into.
The utility model elevator, loses in car and drags running wheel constraint, and in the case of other catastrophe failures, can rely on and set What is be placed between car and balance weight isolates wall construction, by reducing gap between isolation wall construction and car, by under car The vapour lock of side, realizes that the safety of car is fallen.
Dividing wall structure setting described in the utility model is between the car and the balance weight, for isolating and is formed Car well and balance weight well, and the vapour lock below the car is formed in the car well, car is slowed down;By The air-vent that the cage descending vapour lock is controlled for catering to is provided with the isolation wall construction so that elevator is by traditional sedan-chair Railway carriage or compartment has been divided into car well and balance weight well with balance weight with well.Further so that elevator can be by saturating in normal operation Stomata normally discharges gas under cage descending discharge car to required for per interval, it is ensured that the normal lifting of car;And running into During failure car dramatic decrease, because the setting of isolation wall construction causes that the large quantity of air below car is formed to car Vapour lock is resisted, and is designed by the distribution to air-vent, and regularly limited its discharge of control of gas to car underground is measured, The speed that car can be made to drop to drop to set in safe range and stop when reaching the bottom, so that the elevator can do To safer.
It should be appreciated that application of the present utility model is not limited to above-mentioned citing, those of ordinary skill in the art are come Say, can according to the above description be improved or converted, for example breathe freely hole shape or quantity etc., all these modifications and variations are all The protection domain of the utility model appended claims should be belonged to.

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1. a kind of elevator, is provided with the car for carrying passenger, is connected to drive by flexible connecting member with the car What the car was moved up and down drags running wheel, and drags running wheel connection, the balance weight for balancing the car by described, and it is special Levy and be, the elevator also includes:
One isolation wall construction, is arranged between the car and the balance weight, forms car well and balance weight well for isolation, And the vapour lock below the car is formed in the car well;
Distribution is provided with the air-vent for controlling cage descending vapour lock dynamics described in each interval on the isolation wall construction.
2. elevator according to claim 1, it is characterised in that be additionally provided with the car for car load-bearing Adjust the sealing planker of spacing between the car and the car borehole wall.
3. elevator according to claim 2, it is characterised in that the air-vent is set to product shape and is staggered.
4. elevator according to claim 3, it is characterised in that a wedge-shaped pushing block is fixed with the car, it is described The push wheel that pushing block is fixedly mounted on the sealing planker with an axle is engaged, for adjusting institute according to the load-carrying of the car The transverse shifting degree of sealing planker is stated, to adjust the gap between the car and the car borehole wall.
5. elevator according to claim 4, it is held to levy and is, the rotary shaft of the push wheel is arranged on from the sealing planker On the montant for upwardly extending.
6. elevator according to claim 5, it is characterised in that the sealing planker is installed on and is mutually fixed with the car Fixed plate on, and one first elastic component is provided with the fixed plate, mitigate for multiplying loading capacity in the car and float Base plate drives the sealing planker to reset when rising.
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