Elevator system
CA 1068421 A · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Bedel, Denis E.; Mandel, Alan F.; Capuano, Louis M.
Overview
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An elevator system including an elevator car mounted for movement in a building to serve the floors therein. The elevator system includes control apparatus for selecting the service direction in which the elevator car will proceed from a floor it is serving. A display having an array of electrically energizable elements visually indicates the selected up or down service direction by sequentially energizing the elements to provide a predetermined pattern which moves upwardly, or downwardly through, the array, or which causes a predetermined pattern to lengthen in the upward, or downward direction.
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- Granted December 18, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 18, 1996.
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