JP2018065688A - Fall accident-preventing handrail belt for escalator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a conventional handrail belt for an escalator does not take measures for preventing a fall accident or the like and even a conventional handrail belt equipped with a direction display mark or the like as safety measurements is used only for a front side of an escalator, and therefore cannot provide sufficient effects in aspects of safety at the side of the escalator.SOLUTION: In an escalator 1 equipped with a handrail belt 5, a first direction display mark 6A that displays a movement direction of the belt and serves as a mark for a user to obtain timing for getting on the escalator 1 is provided in a flat part 5A of a surface of the belt, and a print sheet 6 having a second direction display mark 6B provided within a range of an edge part 5B of the surface of the belt is provided along a longitudinal direction of the surface of the handrail belt 5. Further, largeness of a part corresponding to the first direction display mark 6A is set to coincide with a protruding part 6Aa extending from the flat part 5A to the edge part 5B.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  The present invention relates to a structure of a handrail belt for preventing a fall accident of an escalator in which a moving step forms an inclined road or a horizontal road and transports passengers.

  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 advertisements 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 aims at provision of an advertising 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. Therefore, there was no idea that this printed seal would bring a safety effect such as to prevent the passenger from falling.

  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 moving direction of the handrail belt in an easily viewable manner on the two surface portions of the handrail belt, thereby preventing a fall accident or the like.

  In order to achieve the above object, claim 1 of the present invention provides a step that reverses and moves from the forward route to the return route, and a handrail belt that reverses and moves from the forward route to the return route in synchronization with the step. In the escalator, the first direction indication mark serving as a mark for indicating the moving direction and the timing when getting into the escalator is provided on the surface flat portion, and the second direction indication mark is provided on the edge of the surface. The first direction indication mark is substantially the same as the width of the surface flat portion of the handrail belt, and the second direction indication mark is the surface edge of the handrail belt. Further, the printed sheet further includes a hand for preventing an accident of falling down of an escalator having a plurality of the first and second direction indication marks over the entire length of the printed sheet. It was a belt.

  In order to achieve the above object, claim 2 of the present invention is such that in the handrail belt according to claim 1, the size of the portion corresponding to the first direction indication mark is applied from the surface flat portion to the surface edge portion. The directional indication mark has a protruding portion.

  According to the configuration of the first aspect, the direction of movement of the handrail belt is indicated, the first direction indication mark provided on the surface flat portion of the handrail belt on the front side of the escalator, and the handrail belt on the side surface of the escalator. As a result of the presence of the second direction indication mark provided within the surface edge of the escalator, the user (passenger) who is entering from the front side or the side of the escalator may ask the front side or the side of the escalator. Therefore, the moving speed and direction can be visually recognized, and as a result, the timing of getting on the step becomes easy and it is useful for preventing reverse getting on.

  According to the configuration of the second aspect, the portion corresponding to the first direction indication mark of claim 1 is provided with a protruding portion that is expanded to the surface edge portion thereof, so that the second direction indication mark of the first aspect substantially corresponds to the second direction indication mark. By adopting the function-bearing configuration, the user (passenger) who gets into the escalator can visually recognize the moving speed and direction regardless of the front side or the side of the escalator. This makes it easier to take the boarding timing and helps prevent reverse boarding.

  Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a safer escalator including a handrail belt for preventing a fall accident.

1 is an overall side view showing an embodiment of claim 1 of the present invention. The fragmentary sectional view which follows the XX line of FIG. 1 explaining Claim 1 of this invention. The fragmentary sectional view which follows the YY line of FIG. 2 explaining Claim 1 of this invention. FIG. 2 is a single perspective view of a print sheet for explaining claim 1 of the present invention. The single-piece | unit perspective view equivalent to FIG. 4 explaining one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 5 is a single perspective view corresponding to FIG. 4 for explaining claim 2 of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a handrail belt of an escalator according to claim 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5, and an embodiment of a handrail belt of an escalator according to claim 2 will be described based on the escalator shown in FIG. 6. .

  The escalator 1 of the present invention includes a main frame 3 mounted on the upper floor 2A and the lower floor 2B, a number of steps 4 connected endlessly and moving in an inverted manner from the forward path to the return path, and the steps 4 The handrail belt 5 having a width W1 of which the cross-sectional shape forms a substantially C-shaped horseshoe shape with the surface flat portion 5A and the surface edge portion 5B continuous therewith, and the handrail, which are reversed and moved from the forward path to the return path in synchronization with A long printed sheet 6 is provided along the longitudinal direction of the belt 5 and bonded and fixed (not shown) from the surface flat portion 5A (width W2) to the surface edge 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 gear 8, and is guided to the guide roller 10 on the double path and to the balustrade 11 on the forward path, and the reversing portion 11A. , 11B. The escalator 1 having such a configuration is usually installed with the front side facing the user flow line. Moreover, when the escalator 1 is installed along the wall of a building, it becomes an installation layout in which a user gets in from the side of the escalator 1.

  The printed sheet 6 according to the first aspect of the present invention is attached to the entire length of the handrail belt 5, and a first direction display for displaying the moving direction on the front surface side of the escalator 1 on the surface flat portion 5 </ b> A of the handrail belt 5. The mark 6A is provided by printing to the full width W2 of the surface flat portion 5A so as to be easily noticeable. Further, in the range of the surface edge portion 5B of the handrail belt 5, a second direction display mark 6B for displaying the moving direction on the side surface side of the escalator 1 is provided. A plurality of these first and second direction indication marks 6A and 6B are provided at an appropriate interval in the entire length direction of the handrail belt 5, but are preferably a semicircular range of the reversing portion of the handrail belt 5. A plurality of at least one interval Pa and Pb (FIG. 4) are arranged in the height H (FIGS. 1 and 2), and the user (passenger) who is currently on board the escalator 1 , There is at least one first direction indication mark 6A on the front side and at least one second direction indication mark 6B on the side surface within the range of the symbol H which is the height of the balustrade 11, The first and second direction indication marks 6A and 6B exhibit an effect of reliably appealing to the sense of speed and direction of movement. Further, these first and second direction indication marks 6A and 6B are naturally different in color from the ground color of the print sheet 6 (for example, yellow or white) for color expression, and the marks are also exemplified in FIG. There is no inconvenience not only with the diamond shape but also with a large arrow or circle.

  Further, claim 2 of the present invention is the same as that of claim 1 in the overall configuration of FIG. 1, but the print sheet 66 of claim 2 corresponding to the print sheet 6 is the first direction indication mark 6A of claim 1. The corresponding portion has a wider direction indication mark 6AA, which has the protruding portion 6Aa from the surface flat portion 5A (width W2) to the surface edge portion 5B of the handrail belt 5 and is the same as the second direction indication mark 6B. It is configured to bear the function (display the moving direction on the side surface of the escalator 1). In this case, the direction indication mark 6AA according to claim 2 has an interval Pc having the same size as the intervals Pa, Pb and the like. Thus, since the direction indication mark 6AA of claim 2 has the functions of the first and second direction indication marks 6A and 6B, the second direction indication mark 6B is not necessarily required. However, in some cases, the second direction indication mark 6B can be arranged in FIG. 6 in the same manner as in FIG. Further, a plurality of the direction indication marks 6AA are provided at appropriate intervals in the full length direction of the handrail belt 5, and preferably a height H (FIG. 1, FIG. A plurality of them are arranged at an interval Pc (FIG. 6) which is at least one in the figure (shown in FIG. 2). When the user (passenger) who is going to board now sees the escalator 1, there is at least one direction indication mark 6AA within the range of the symbol H on the front side, and a protruding portion 6Aa on the side side. The escalator 1 has an effect of reliably appealing to the sense of speed and direction of movement of the moving speed. In addition, the direction indication mark 6AA is of course different in color from the ground color of the printed sheet 66 (for example, yellow or white) for color expression, and the mark is not limited to the rhombus illustrated in FIG. There is no inconvenience with circular shapes.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 4 for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, a display unit 6C for displaying an attention character (for example, “grabbing a handrail”) or an advertisement within the interval Pa of the first direction display mark 6A. In the case of providing the display portion 6C having a width narrower than that of the first direction display mark 6A, the effect of the first direction display mark 6A or the like is not reduced in terms of the display area, and appealing and appealing effects are promoted. Is. The same applies to the case where the display unit 6C is provided within the interval Pc between the direction display marks 6AA. As described above, the print sheet 6 on which the first and second direction display marks 6A and 6B and the display unit 6C are printed, and the print sheet 66 on which the direction display mark 6AA and the display unit 6C are printed are provided on the handrail belt 5. It is affixed to the entire length.

  Here, the details of the print sheets 6 and 66 are constituted by a surface laminate layer in addition to an adhesive layer to the handrail belt 5 and a sheet layer on which printing is performed.

  As explained above, the display function of the two surface portions according to claims 1 and 2 of the present invention displays the moving direction of the handrail belt 5 from the front side and the side surface so that it can be easily seen, thereby preventing a fall accident or reverse riding in an escalator. Can be prevented.

  In addition, although said embodiment demonstrated the example of the general escalator structure, 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 Surface flat part 5B Surface edge part 6, 66 Print sheet 6A 1st direction indication mark 6B 2nd direction indication mark 6AA Direction indication mark 6Aa Overhang | projection part 6C Display part

Claims (2)

  In an escalator equipped with a step that travels in reverse from the outward route and transports passengers, and a handrail belt that moves in reverse from the outward route in synchronization with this step, the moving direction is displayed on the escalator. The first direction indication mark serving as a mark for timing when changing is provided on the surface flat portion, and a print sheet having the second direction indication mark on the surface edge portion is provided on the surface of the handrail belt, The direction indication mark is substantially the same width as the width of the surface flat portion of the handrail belt, the second direction indication mark is in the surface edge portion of the handrail belt, and the print sheet further includes the first and 2. A handrail belt for preventing an escalator from falling over, comprising a plurality of two direction indication marks on the entire length of the printed sheet.   The handrail belt according to claim 1, wherein the size of the portion corresponding to the first direction indication mark is a direction indication mark having a protruding portion extending from the surface flat portion to the surface edge portion. A handrail belt for accident prevention.

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