JP2012121731A - Fall accident-preventing handrail belt of escalator, and fall accident-preventing escalator including the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a handrail belt of an escalator configured to display the moving direction of the handrail belt on a surface of the handrail belt in an easily-viewable manner, and thereby prevent a fall accident or the like.SOLUTION: On the front surface of this handrail belt 5, a print sheet 6 having a color different from that of the handrail belt 5, having a width nearly equal to a width W2 of a flat part 5A of the front surface of the handrail belt 5, and including a plurality of direction indication marks 6A each indicating the moving direction at intervals P at least one of which exists in a semicircular range H of an inversion part is arranged.

Description

  The present invention relates to a structure of a handrail belt of an escalator in which a moving step forms an inclined road or a horizontal road for passenger transportation.

  Conventionally, the structure which sticks a printing sheet on the handrail belt surface of an escalator and performs advertisement display has already been proposed as disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1.

  The handrail belt of the escalator described in Patent Document 1 is such that a print sheet displaying only an advertisement is pasted in the longitudinal direction of the surface of the handrail belt.

JP 2003-212468 A

  The thing of the said patent document 1 provides an advertisement medium so that there may be "the printed sticker of the advertising matter was stuck on the surface longitudinal direction of the moving handrail" in Claim 1 of the claim at the time of the application. There was no idea that this printing sticker would provide a safety effect such as to prevent the passenger from falling over.

  On the other hand, with the recent use of escalators, due to the aging of the user base, there are a number of accidents that fall due to loss of the timing of weight shift when changing to a step that moves on the escalator platform. This is due to the fact that the color of the step staring at the transfer is dark and the movement (speed) of the step cannot be recognized. In addition, there is a phenomenon that the direction of movement of the escalator cannot be recognized, and reverse boarding is performed. Further, the advertisement printing described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 is simply a character or design, and when the handrail belt is moving, the character or design looks as if it is a single band, and the direction display function. There was a problem that could not be demonstrated.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a handrail belt of an escalator that is configured to display the direction of movement of the handrail belt in an easily visible manner on the surface of the handrail belt, thereby preventing a fall accident or the like.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an escalator comprising a step that reverses and moves from the forward route to the return route, and transports passengers, and a handrail belt that reverses and moves from the forward route to the return route in synchronization with the step. A direction indication mark on the surface of the handrail belt having a color different from that of the handrail belt and displaying a moving direction having substantially the same width as the width of the surface flat portion of the handrail belt. A plurality of printing sheets having a plurality of lengths are provided at intervals of at least one in the circumferential range.

  In this way, the presence of the direction indication mark that indicates the moving direction of the handrail belt reversing part within the semicircular range allows the user (passenger) who is entering the escalator to move the escalator at the moving speed and direction. Can be visually recognized, and as a result, it is easy to take the timing of getting into the step and is useful for preventing reverse boarding.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent a fall accident due to a failure in getting on the escalator and to prevent reverse boarding.

The whole side view which shows one Embodiment of the handrail belt of the escalator by this invention. The front view which follows the XX line of FIG. 1 of this invention. Sectional drawing which follows the YY line | wire of FIG. 2 of this invention. The single-piece | unit perspective view of the printing sheet of this invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a handrail belt of an escalator according to the present invention will be described based on the escalator shown in FIGS.

  A general escalator 1 includes a main frame 3 mounted on an upper floor 2A and a lower floor 2B, a number of steps 4 connected endlessly and moving in an inverted manner from an outward path to a return path, The handrail belt 5 having a width W1 that forms a horseshoe with the flat portion 5A and the semicircular portions 5B on both edges connected to the flat portion 5A and moving in a reversed manner from the forward path to the return path, and the handrail belt 5 A long printed sheet 6 is provided along the longitudinal direction and bonded and fixed (not shown) from the flat portion 5A (width W2) to the semicircular portion 5B.

  The handrail belt 5 is frictionally driven by the power transmitted to the drive roller 9 and the like through the chain 8 through the chain 8, and is guided to the guide roller 10 on the return path and guided to the balustrade 11 on the reverse path 11A, 11B is configured to move back.

  In addition, the print sheet 6 is attached to the entire length of the handrail belt 5, and a direction indication mark 6A for displaying the moving direction is provided on the surface layer by printing to the full width W2 of the flat portion 5A so as to be easily noticeable. A plurality of at least one interval P (Fig. 4) is arranged in the semicircular range H (Figs. 1 and 2) of the reversing part of the handrail belt 5, and the user is now on board. When the person (passenger) sees the escalator 1, the direction indication mark 6A that is always in the range of the reference sign H, which is always in front, exerts an effect of reliably appealing the sense of speed and direction of movement speed. is there. In addition, the direction indication mark 6A is different in color from the ground color of the print sheet 6 (for example, yellow), and the mark is not limited to the rhombus illustrated in the drawing, and there is no problem even with a large arrow or triangle mark.

  Here, the details of the printing sheet 6 are formed by a laminate layer on the surface in addition to an adhesive layer to the handrail belt 5 and a sheet layer on which printing is performed.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the moving direction of the handrail belt 5 can be displayed in an easy-to-see manner, thereby preventing a fall accident or reverse riding on the escalator.

  In addition, although the said embodiment demonstrated the example of the general escalator, it can be applied as it is also to the escalator commonly called the moving walk which does not have a level | step difference between adjacent steps.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Escalator, 4 ... Step, 5 ... Handrail belt, 5A ... Flat part 6 ... Print sheet, 6A ... Direction indication mark

The present invention relates to the step configuration of the fall accident prevention escalator comprises a handrail belt and it for preventing fall accident escalator performing formation to passenger transport ramps or horizontal path to move.

An object of the present invention displays easily seen the movement direction of the handrail belt into the surface of the handrail belt, a with handrail belt and for overturning accident prevention structure as the escalators to prevent falling accidents in fall accident prevention escalator with it It is to provide.

Claims (1)

  An escalator comprising a step that moves in a reverse direction from the forward route to the return route and transports passengers, and a handrail belt that moves in a reverse direction from the forward route to the return route in synchronization with the step, on the surface of the handrail belt, An interval that has a color different from that of the belt, and at least one direction display mark that indicates a moving direction having the same width as the width of the surface flat portion of the handrail belt in the semicircular range of the reversing portion The handrail belt of the escalator provided with the printing sheet which has two or more in the full length.

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