EP1046606A1 - Handlaufsvorrichtung eines beschleunigten Förderbands - Google Patents

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EP1046606A1
EP1046606A1 EP00401082A EP00401082A EP1046606A1 EP 1046606 A1 EP1046606 A1 EP 1046606A1 EP 00401082 A EP00401082 A EP 00401082A EP 00401082 A EP00401082 A EP 00401082A EP 1046606 A1 EP1046606 A1 EP 1046606A1
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Jean-Claude Franceschi
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B23/00—Component parts of escalators or moving walkways
    • B66B23/22—Balustrades
    • B66B23/24—Handrails
    • B66B23/26—Handrails of variable speed type

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  • the present invention relates to a device forming a handrail for an accelerated moving sidewalk.
  • the handrail includes 1 handrail handles mounted respectively on carriages 2 whose rollers 3 are move between running and guide rails 4; a handrail element 6 constituted by a link flexible connecting two successive carriages 2 through two return members 7, such as pulleys or pinions, carried by the axes 8 of the rollers 3 of the carriages 2 of so that the flexible connecting element 6 folds back substantially at right angles to the right of each handle corresponding 1.
  • the two ends of each element flexible 6 are respectively connected to two counter-carriages 9 which can move on rails bearing and guide 10 while being held by it at a variable distance from the guide rails 4 of carriages 2 to allow the spacing to be varied handles 1 and, therefore, their speed, i.e.
  • the handles 1 can move apart in a acceleration zone B located at one end of the sidewalk (on the side then of the entry of this one) and to approach in another deceleration zone B located at the other end of the sidewalk (on the exit side) and stay equidistant in zone A at speed constant between the two acceleration and deceleration B, thus achieving a handrail whose we would like it to be "synchronous" to the floor sidewalk mobile, which was not the case until the present invention.
  • Each side of the moving walk is equipped of a handrail and in zone A at speed constant V of it which covers most of the sidewalk, the counter carriages 9 have joined the carriages 2 carrying the handles 1 because the rails of guide 10 are very close to the rails 4 and the elements flexible links 6 are deployed in such a way that the distance between two successive handles 1 is maximum. If we denote by d the distance from a middle of a handle 1 in the middle of another handle next 1, this distance varies in the acceleration and deceleration B.
  • v is the minimum speed at a time entry into acceleration zone B and exit into the other deceleration zone B, handles 1, and V la maximum speed of these in zone A at speed constant, the ratio V / v being equal to K, the smallest value of the distance between the handles 1 at the entrance or at the exit from zones B of the sidewalk is equal to d / K.
  • the guide rails 4 of the carriages 2 carrying the handles 1 and the guide rails 10 of the counter-carriages 9 each form a loop with each end of the sidewalk a turning device of the handrail allowing to bring back the handles from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
  • rails 4 and 10 are parallel to the moving floor P of the sidewalk and the handles 1 as well that the flexible connecting elements 6 constituting the upper strand of the handrail lie at a height determined in relation to this floor.
  • the counter-carriages 9 are engaged in the trolleys 2.
  • zone B of acceleration or deceleration the counter-carriages 9 roll on a part of the guide rail 10 in cam profile, the shape governs the relative movement of the handles successive, i.e.
  • the disadvantage of such an arrangement is present an excessive size, due to the large diameter ⁇ of the circular trajectory of the handles when reversal at each end of the handrail, leading to providing a receiving pit for the game turning end of a depth relatively large.
  • the diameter ⁇ of the circular trajectory of the handles when turning over is at least 2.5 m, or even 3 m.
  • the problem posed is, on the one hand, to obtain a true synchronization between the handrails and the moving sidewalk floor in areas acceleration and deceleration which, for problems of comfort, and optimization of efforts on mechanical systems, must be accelerated and constant deceleration, and, on the other hand, to eliminate the disadvantage mentioned above in the areas of reversal in order to decrease to a most low possible turning height of the handles handrail.
  • a device forming a handrail for an accelerated moving walkway comprising N handles mounted on carriages moving on at least one running and guide rail, flexible connecting elements of the same length L connecting two consecutive carriages, folding up to the right of these by a deflection member, and anchored at their two ends to two counter-carriages moving on at least one other guide and rolling rail located at a variable distance from the rail carrying the carriages in order to accelerate and decelerate them between a given maximum speed and minimum speed, said rails each being formed in a loop whose lower strands on the one hand and upper strands on the other hand are straight and parallel to each other respectively in a lower E and upper A zone corresponding to at least part of their length and their end portions F are short bes and ensure the reversal of the handle assemblies, connecting elements and counter-carriages, the guide and rolling rail of the counter-carriages deviating, beyond zone A, from the guide and rolling rail of the carriages in a zone B situated before
  • the slope of the profile of the rail cam outline carrying the counter carriages is parallel to that of the section of the carriage rail located in the same plane transverse cutting the end of the corresponding wave and perpendicular to the two rails; more the number of handles located between the beginning and the end of each zone spacing B is odd, and when a first handle is positioned at one end, the last is positioned at the other end of the same area.
  • the upper and lower strands of the rail loop carrying the carriages are parallel and the device has a horizontal safety zone C located between each separation zone B and reconciliation zone D.
  • the result is a new device forming handrail which responds to the problem posed by providing, on the one hand, all the comfort and security desired for curb users according to the invention and, on the other part, an optimization of the implementation of the means mechanical whose dimensions and forces to which they must resist are minimized.
  • the handrail which will be described in Figures 2 and 3 generally presents the same configuration as that of the handrail previously known shown in Figure 1, so that the elements of the handrail of Figures 2 and 3 common to those of the handrail of figure 1 have the same references.
  • each flexible connection element 6 can consist of a toothed belt (Figure 1) by which are fixed blocks 1b whose shape allows the reciprocal nesting between two contiguous blocks, each front face of a block comprising a boss and each rear face comprising at least one recess combined with that of the boss so that in the straight part of the link between the two pulleys return, each boss on a front face of a block 1b fits into a conjugate recess on the rear side next to the adjacent block forming a tenon connection mortise capable of withstanding sharp forces applied to the link, the bosses moving away from recesses in the convex parts of this link.
  • Figure 1 by which are fixed blocks 1b whose shape allows the reciprocal nesting between two contiguous blocks, each front face of a block comprising a boss and each rear face comprising at least one recess combined with that of the boss so that in the straight part of the link between the two pulleys return, each boss on a front face of a block 1b fits into a conjug
  • the flexible connecting element 6 can be constituted differently than described in the patent above mentioned earlier, for example by cable.
  • the guide rails 10 of the counter-carriages 9 have a contour in zones D cam 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d as it approaches progressively from the guide rail of the handle trolleys 1, from separation zones B to zone lower E in which the handrail handles 1 move spaced a relative distance apart constant which is substantially equal to the distance between the handrails moving in the area A at maximum constant speed.
  • the rail 10 carrying the counter-carriages 9 approaches that of 4 carriage-holders 2 until said counter-carriages 9 are as close as possible to the corresponding carriages 2, before the zone F for turning and following a convex profile 10 a2 of the cam contour which extends a concave part 10 a1, itself in the continuity of the cam profile of the separation zone B then of safety C, and is connected at the start of the shape of an arc 10 a3 of the turning curve, and the flexible connecting elements 6 located between two consecutive handles 1 are wound on a deflection wheel 5 conforming to the shape of the turning part.
  • the re-acceleration for speeding up, or at the other end of the pavement the deceleration for slowing down, handrail handles are carried out before, or respectively after, the reversal thereof, so as efficient as possible with a minimum number of links 6 which is two, which represents a length 1 of the zone D substantially equal to 3 m for an overall diameter ⁇ of the circle formed by the guide rails 4 and 10 d 'about 1.30 m.
  • Figure 2 also shows that the link or the flexible connecting element 6 between two handles of consecutive re-accelerated handrail 1 is wound on a gear wheel forming gypsy 5, which can be drive to ensure the training of the handrail, and comprising two housings substantially diametrically opposite 5a each receiving a set consisting of a carriage 2 carrying a handrail handle 1 and a counter carriage 9 engaged in carriage 2 and, if applicable if applicable, as shown in the embodiment in Figure 3, two intermediate carriages 11.
  • the turning part in the shape of a circular arc guide rails 4 of the carriages 2 embraces in some the return wheel forming a gypsy 5.
  • the cam contour 10a and the wheel forming gypsy 5 are inaccessible to passengers by the floor P of the moving walkway while being masked by a protective covering 13 shown diagrammatically in line mixed on figure 2 and which starts at the exit of the sidewalk in the vicinity of the landing plate for extend over safety zone C and zone D to the reversal zone F.
  • This safety zone C horizontal differs from that known in sidewalks to current constant speed which does not involve handrail elements of variable length and of which security is ensured only in the lower part of the vertical part of the area F for turning.
  • the end of the sidewalk corresponding to the entrance to it and the one corresponding to the output as defined above, are identical and the device according to the invention as shown in Figure 2 allows decrease, as we saw previously, the diameter size d'enc of wheel 5 to a value of approximately 1.30 m thus leading to a substantial reduction of the depth of the pit which will then only be about 0.30 m from floor P of the sidewalk rolling which is itself located about 1 m below of the upper side of the handrail 1.
  • the rail 10 carrying the counter carriages 9 move closer to that 4 carriage holder until said counter-carriages 9 are as close as possible to 2 corresponding trolleys, in zone F of turning and following a convex contour profile of cam which constitutes at least part of the curve of reversing said rail 10, and the end part turning over the rail carrying the carriages is shaped like an arc of a circle.
  • the shape of the turning cam 10c or 10d of the guide rail is achievable by a skilled person following any profile corresponding to the present invention, without that it is necessary to specify more the characteristics in the present description, and to re-accelerate or slow down the handles handrail 1 in a minimum distance: in this zone there is indeed no concern for acceleration and constant deceleration and of low value for the passenger comfort as in zones B, which allows a reduction in diameter size ⁇ of the shaped turning part of the arc of the guide rails 4 of the carriages 2: in the embodiment of Figure 3, this diameter ⁇ can be around 2 m leading to a pit depth of about 1 m below the floor P of passenger transport, a value which is certainly greater than that of the pit depth of the realization of figure 2 but lower than the pit depth of the prior art device of Figure 1.
  • the rails 4, 10 carrying the carriages 2 and the counter-carriages 9 are located at equal distance between them ; moreover the device comprises, above all when the length L of the flexible connections between carriages 2 is important, intermediate carriages 11 located between two successive handrail handles 1 and integral with each flexible connecting element 6; these said intermediate carriages 11 including the support rollers 12 can move on the guide rails and rolling of the carriages 2 supporting the handshakes current 1, can thus better guide it especially in the event of a curve when changing the slope in the fast sidewalk path so the ties flexible 6 better fit the shape of the curve between two trolleys 1.
  • the cam contour of the rail 10 in this zone is, as indicated above, according to an oscillatory profile the length of each Bi wave (four B waves 1 to B 4 are represented in FIG. 3) is equal to the distance between a first and a third consecutive counter-carriages 9 each placed at each end of the wave which frames them: the length of each of these waves, thus decreases as and as the carriages 1 slow down, linked to the progressive spacing of the rails.
  • the slope T I of the profile of the cam outline of the rail 10 carrying the counter-carriages 9 is parallel to that of the section of the rail 4 carriage carrier 2 located in the same transverse plane P I cutting the end of the wave.
  • corresponding B I and perpendicular to the two rails 4, 10; and the number of handles 1 located between the start and the end of each spacing zone B is odd, for example, in FIG. 3, new and when a first handle 1 is positioned at one end, the last is positioned at the end other end of the same area.
  • cams according to the present invention making it possible to go from a constant maximum speed V in the zones A and E upstream of the inlet, and downstream of the outlet, of the cam acceleration / deceleration which are at constant speed, at or from a given minimum speed v, following a constant given acceleration / deceleration.

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