JP2019094152A - Passenger conveyor - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a passenger conveyor which is constituted so that a thin article such as clothes is not caught in a clearance between a footstep and a skirt guard panel.SOLUTION: A passenger conveyor is constituted into a band shape by endlessly connecting a plurality of footsteps, and has a transport body which is driven in a longitudinal direction of the band shape. Skirt guard panels are erected at both sides of the transport body, and arranged along a longitudinal direction of the transport body. A catch-in prevention device is arranged in an upper part rather than an upper face of the transport body of the skirt guard panels over an entire length of the transport body, and a clearance formed between a side face of the transport body and the skirt guard panels is covered with a block body.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to a passenger conveyor provided with a carrier that carries and moves passengers, such as escalators and moving walkways.

  A passenger conveyor is known which conveys a passenger on a carrier to a destination by forming a carrier by connecting a plurality of steps in an endless manner and driving the carrier in its length direction. ing. An escalator, which is a type of passenger conveyor, arranges a plurality of endlessly connected carriers in a step-like manner between upper and lower floors, and raises or lowers the carriers, as is well known. It is transported to the upper floor or the lower floor.

  In such an escalator, panels called skirt girts are provided upright on both sides of the transport body along the length direction (which is also the transport direction). A gap is provided between the lower inner surface (the surface facing the transport body) of the skirt girt panel and the side surface of the steps forming the transport body, and the steps configuring the transport body are directed in the transport direction. It is configured to move freely.

  In the above-mentioned gap, there is a risk that thin articles such as cards dropped from the passengers on the steps and thin articles such as clothes of the passengers may be caught. In particular, when driving down the escalator, the clothes of the passengers on the step, for example, the skirt of a long skirt or the bottom of a pantalon, etc., slope down from traveling on the horizontal section when resting on the following step. When moving to the traveling of the department, when the portion placed on the subsequent step moves onto the self-step, there is a possibility that the passenger may turn laterally without being aware of it and may be caught in the above-mentioned gap.

  Thus, there is a gap between the skirt guard panel of the escalator and the side of the step, and there is a risk that clothes etc. will be caught in the gap.

  In the escalator etc. in the past, there were some which reduce the friction coefficient of a skirt guard panel, reduce the entrapment of a thing to be pinched, and suppress reach | attainment to a pinching part in a escalator etc. so far. However, the pinched portion (the open groove portion of the gap) itself is exposed, and it is possible for the object to reach the pinched portion, and the risk of pinching still remains.

JP 2003-73066 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide a passenger conveyor configured so that thin articles such as clothes are not caught in a gap between a step and a skirt guard panel.

  The passenger conveyor according to the embodiment of the present invention is constituted by connecting a plurality of steps endlessly to form a strip, and a transport body driven in the longitudinal direction of the strip and standing on both sides of the transport body A skirt girt panel provided along the length direction of the transfer body, and provided over the entire length of the transfer body above the upper surface of the transfer body on the skirt gart panel A pinch prevention device having a shield covering a gap between a side surface of the body and the skirt girt panel.

  According to the above configuration, the gap between the side surface of the transport body and the skirt gart panel is covered with the shield of the pinching prevention device, so that a thin thing such as clothes is not caught in the gap and the user's safety Is secured.

The passenger conveyor which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention is shown, (a) is a front view which shows a clearance gap part, (b) is a side view which shows a pinching prevention apparatus part. The passenger conveyor which concerns on other embodiment is shown, (a) is a front view which shows a clearance gap part, (b) is a side view which shows a pinching prevention apparatus part. The passenger conveyor which concerns on other embodiment is shown, (a) is a front view which shows a clearance gap part, (b) is a side view which shows a pinching prevention apparatus part.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, an escalator is illustrated as the passenger conveyor 11, and the description will be made.

  As shown in FIG. 1B, the escalator 11 endlessly connects a plurality of steps 12 to form a belt-like transport body 13. The belt-like transfer body 13 is driven by a known drive mechanism (not shown) in a length direction (diagonal up and down direction in FIG. 1B) which is also the transfer direction, and a passenger (also referred to as a user) on the step 12 Transport 15 to a predetermined destination (upper floor or lower floor).

  As shown in FIG. 1A, the skirt girt panels 16 are erected on both sides of the conveyance body 13, that is, the opposing portions to the side surfaces of the steps 12, respectively. Are arranged along the transport direction). Above the upper surface of the conveyance body 13 of the skirt girth panel 16, a pinching prevention device 18 is provided over the entire length of the conveyance body 13.

  The pinch prevention device 18 has a shield 19 covering a gap x formed between the side surface of the carrier 13, that is, the side surface of the step 12 and the skirt girt panel 16. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, as an example of the shield 19, as shown in FIG. 1A, the upper end is attached to the skirt guard panel 16 by the holder 20, and the lower end is the step 12 that constitutes the carrier 13. An elastic body (such as a brush) 191 in contact with the upper surface in the vicinity of the side portion of

  That is, the pinching prevention device 18 extends downward from the skirt girt panel 16 toward the upper side of the step 12 and an elastic body (brush or the like) 191 arranged so that the lower end thereof abuts on the step 12 A holder 20 fixes the upper end to the skirt guard panel 16.

  From the above configuration, the elastic body (brush or the like) 191 can prevent the user 15 from contacting the pinched portion (the gap x), and the safety of the escalator user 15 can be improved. That is, as described above, conventionally, thin articles such as cards dropped from the passenger 15 on the step 12 and thin articles such as clothes of the passenger 15 are inserted in the gap x. There was a risk. In particular, when traveling down the escalator, if the hem of the clothes of the passenger 15 on the step 12 rests on the following step during horizontal movement, when moving to traveling on the downward slope, There is a possibility that the above-mentioned skirt portion is caught in the gap x without the passenger 15 being aware of it.

  However, in this embodiment, since the shield 19 of the pinching prevention device 18 which is made of an elastic body 191 such as a brush is installed to cover the gap x, the skirt of the user 15 is The movement is blocked by this shield 19 even if it is going to move toward it. That is, the contact to the pinched portion (the gap x) can be prevented, and the safety of the escalator user 15 can be secured.

  Although the elastic body 191 such as a brush is exemplified as the shield 19 in the above embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2, an air curtain-like gas 192 is sprayed from the blowout portion 21 attached to the skirt guard panel 16 to the upper surface near the gap x of the steps 12 constituting the carrier 13 to shield it. The body 19 may be used.

  When configured in this manner, the air curtain-like gas 192 ejected from the blowout portion 21 can forcibly remove the object to be caught by the user, and the safety of the escalator user 15 can be ensured.

  Moreover, as the shielding body 19 of the pinching prevention apparatus 18, what is shown in FIG. 3 can be used. The shield 19 in FIG. 3 is disposed such that the upper end is attached to the skirt guard panel 16 by the holder 22 and the side of the lower end is in contact with the side of the step 12 constituting the carrier 13 within the gap x. An elastic body 193 such as a brush is used.

  In such a configuration, since the gap x at the pinched portion is eliminated by the elastic body 193 such as a brush, the object to be pinched by the user is not pinched in the gap x, and the safety of the escalator user is secured. it can.

  While certain embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments have been presented by way of example only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, substitutions, and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and the gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

11: Passenger conveyor 12: Step 13: Carrier 15: Passenger (user)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 16 ... Skirt guard panel 18 ... Interposition prevention apparatus 19 ... Shielding body 191, 193 ... Elastic bodies, such as a brush 192 ... Air-curtain-like gas 20, 22 ... Holder 21 ... Blowout part x ... Gap

The passenger conveyor according to the embodiment of the present invention is constituted by connecting a plurality of steps endlessly to form a strip, and a transport body driven in the longitudinal direction of the strip and standing on both sides of the transport body A skirt girt panel provided along the length direction of the transfer body, and provided over the entire length of the transfer body above the upper surface of the transfer body on the skirt gart panel And a pinch-preventing device having a shield covering a gap between the side surface of the body and the skirt girt panel , wherein the shield is attached at its upper end to the skirt guard panel and at its lower end to the carrier. It is characterized in that it is an elastic body in contact with the side upper surface .

Claims (4)

A plurality of steps connected endlessly to form a strip, and a transport body driven in the longitudinal direction of the strip;
A skirt girt panel which is provided on both sides of the carrier and is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the carrier;
The skirt girth panel is provided above the upper surface of the conveyance body over the entire length of the conveyance body, and has a shield that covers the gap between the side surface of the conveyance body and the skirt girt panel. A device,
The passenger conveyor characterized by having.   The passenger conveyor according to claim 1, wherein the shield is an elastic body whose upper end is attached to the skirt guard panel and whose lower end is in contact with the upper side surface of the carrier.   The passenger conveyor according to claim 1, wherein the shield is an air curtain-like gas sprayed from a blow-off portion attached to the skirt guard panel to the upper surface of the side portion of the transfer body.   The shield is an elastic body having an upper end attached to the skirt guard panel, and a side surface of the lower end being in contact with a side surface of the transport body in the gap. Passenger conveyors described in.

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