US Patent Issued to Kone on Aug. 25 for "Sliding guide shoe and elevator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,737, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Sliding guide shoe and elevator" was invented by Giovanni Hawkins (Helsinki) and Sami Janhunen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding guide shoe for guiding a moving component in an elevator shaft includes a supporting surface, and a sliding part disposed to be supported by the supporting surface. The supporting surface and the sliding part have contact through contact points where the supporting surface of the frame part is in contact with the outer surface of the sliding part. The contact points constitute a minor fraction of the corresponding surface of th...