Patent ID: 7140473
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. Safety top balustrade for a car of a machine room-less elevator which moves in a hoistway, on a wall of which a controller of the elevator is secured, said balustrade comprising: a fixed structure comprising a plurality of vertical uprights located at intervals near the edge of a car roof and at least two guard rails fixed at different heights on the uprights, the fixed structure located around at least a portion of the periphery of the car roof, a mobile structure comprising at least two bars that are telescopically mounted inside the guard rails, so as to slide between an open position where the bars are inserted within the guard rails, and a closed position where the bars are extended out of the guard rails, wherein the mobile structure is positioned along the edge of the car roof so as to allow access to the controller mounted in the hoistway.