Patent ID: 8356699
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. A toe guard for an elevator car, said toe guard comprising a movable panel provided with a locking device, and guide tracks mounted below the car in a substantially horizontal orientation, which panel, being guided and supported by said guide tracks, is movable between a stowaway position and an operative position, in which stowaway position the panel rests on the guide tracks in a substantially horizontal orientation under the car and lockable in place by the locking device, and in which operative position the toe guard, supported by the guide tracks, has been drawn out onto a landing floor and tilted to cover a gap between a car sill and the landing floor, and in which operative position the toe guard is lockable to a landing door jamb by the locking device, wherein the panel comprises: a first panel part which, guided by the guide tracks, is movable substantially between a drawn-out position where the first panel part is drawn out onto the landing floor and a stowed-away position under the car, and a second panel part which, guided by the first panel part, is telescopically movable from the first panel part between a retracted extreme position with the first and second panel parts disposed in a nested or superposed relationship, and an extended extreme position with the first and second panel parts disposed substantially in a mutually adjacent relationship.