US Patent Issued to Kone on June 17 for "Method of constructing elevator and construction-time elevator arrangement" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,913, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method of constructing elevator and construction-time elevator arrangement" was invented by Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki), Otto Lanz (Helsinki), Janne Laine (Helsinki), Aki Haikonen (Helsinki), Jorma Mustalahti (Helsinki) and Sakari Korvenranta (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of constructing an elevator comprising providing an elevator car in a hoistway, said elevator car comprising a cabin frame, and a temporary pulley beam detachably mounted on the cabin frame; mounting a hoisting machine in a first po...