US Patent Issued to KONE on April 21 for "Method of installing ropes of an elevator and arrangement therefor" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,419, issued on April 21, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method of installing ropes of an elevator and arrangement therefor" was invented by Tomi Kapanen (Helsinki), Jari Hakkila (Helsinki), Eero Peltonen (Helsinki) and Richard Baker (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing ropes of an elevator includes arranging a plurality of ropes to pass from one or more rope reels mounted on an elevator car to a rope wheel mounted separately from the car, around the rope wheel, and from the rope wheel to a clamping device mounted on the car; and thereafter moving the elevator car vertically relative to the rope wh...