ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,267, issued on Sept. 30.
"Car arrangement and method for mounting a spindle drive in a car arrangement for a double-decker elevator" was invented by Stefan Weber (Niederwil, Switzerland), Dragan Gavric (Brunnen, Switzerland) and Roger Beck (Sursee, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A car arrangement includes: a first car and a second car arranged one above the other in a car frame; wherein at least the first car is displaceable along the car frame in the direction of a vertical axis by a spindle drive; wherein the spindle drive includes a spindle and a drive unit; wherein the spindle drive is guided through a cutout in a su...