Patent ID: 6826967
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: A01D,G01F

Abstract:
A mass flow measuring device for an elevator including an elevator head, the mass flow measuring device comprising:a rigid anchor member that is rigidly securable to a said elevator head; a rigid mounting member that is rigidly securable to a sensor surface assembly; a resiliently deformable connection; and a load cell connected in series in a load transferring circuit, the resiliently deformable connection and the load cell respectively interconnecting the anchor member and mounting member as mutually unconnected elements of the load transferring circuit, whose axes of bending are non-coinciding; the mounting member having rigidly secured thereto one or more sensor fixing members extending externally of a boundary of the mounting member, the device being characterised in that one end of the load cell is secured to a said fixing member externally of the mounting member.