JPH01104589A - Handrail lighting apparatus for passenger conveyor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent the danger of suffering a skin burn and electric shock while preventing an intentional or careless touch of a passenger utilizing a passenger conveyor on a ball lamp by extending a suspending lower end of a cover plate arranged outside the ball lamp downward lower than a lower end of the lamp. CONSTITUTION: Even in the case where a passenger utilizing a passenger conveyor tries to lean out of a handrail and separates his/her hand 10 from a rubber handrail 5 and tries to insert it to a lower surface side of a guide rail 4, the hand 10 is hindered by a cover plate 9 positioned outside of a ball lamp 6. As a result, easy touch of the hand 10 on the ball lamp 6 is prevented so as to prevent the suffering of a skin burn and electric shock of passengers.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial usage W]

The present invention relates to a balustrade lighting device for a passenger conveyor, and more particularly to a balustrade lighting device for a passenger conveyor that uses ball lamps to illuminate the balustrade.

[Conventional technology]

A guide rail that guides and supports a rubber handrail is known as a parapet lighting device for a passenger conveyor such as an escalator or a moving passage where the side panel of the parapet is made of tempered glass, as is known from Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 54-131297. It is generally known that a fluorescent lamp or other plurality of rod-shaped lamps are disposed along the length of the lower surface of the lamp, and these lamps are covered with a milky-white plastic cover having a U-shaped cross section. However, this kind of balustrade lighting device is ordinary,
Q: It is difficult to create a glamorous image.In addition, the interiors of buildings these days are becoming more and more fashionable, and customers are increasingly requesting a more glamorous design for passenger conveyors. . Along with this, as an alternative to the above-mentioned ordinary parapet lighting, there are some systems in which a large number of clear ball lamps are arranged along the length of the lower surface of the guide rail. Hereinafter, a conventional handrail lighting device for a passenger conveyor will be explained based on FIGS. 3 and 4. In the figure, 1 is the main body of the passenger conveyor, 2 is a railing erected on both sides of the outgoing path consisting of steps (not shown), and 3 is the railing 2.
It is made of tempered glass and is supported by a truss (not shown) of the passenger conveyor main body 1, and a guide rail 4 is attached to the upper edge of the side panel 3.
is fixed to the guide rail 4, and a rubber handrail 5 is slidably guided on the guide rail 4. Reference numeral 6 denotes a large number of ball lamps arranged on the lower surface of the guide rail 4 at equal intervals along its longitudinal direction on the opposite side of the side panel 3 to the step. It is attached to the lamp socket 7. Reference numeral 8 denotes a design cover molded from a stainless steel plate or the like to cover the lamp socket 7. In the conventional balustrade lighting device configured as described above,
When the ball lamps 6 are lit, the balustrade 2 and the step portion are illuminated, and the lighting of many ball lamps 6 creates a gorgeous atmosphere.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

In the traditional passenger conveyor balustrade lighting device as mentioned above,
As is clear from FIG. 4, the ball ramp 6 is exposed below the guide rail 4 and there is no guard around it, so passengers' hands can easily reach the ball ramp by going over the rubber handrail. Therefore, if you touch the ball lamp 4, which is heated to a relatively high temperature, there is a risk of getting burned, and if you touch the base of the ball lamp 60, there is a risk of getting an electric shock. This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides a handrail lighting device for a passenger conveyor that can prevent burns and electric shocks caused by passengers touching ball lamps with their hands. The purpose is to

[Method for solving the problem I52] The handrail lighting device for a passenger conveyor according to the present invention has a shielding plate arranged on the outside of ball lamps arranged on the outside lower surface of a guide rail that guides and supports a rubber handrail. .

[For production]

In this invention, since the shielding plate covers the outside of the ball ramp, even if a passenger takes his or her hand off the rubber handrail and extends it to the outside of the handrail, the shielding plate prevents the passenger from easily touching the ball ramp. Therefore, it is possible to prevent burns and electric shocks to passengers.

【Example】

Below is the fruit of your invention 1! An example of f1 will be explained with reference to the drawings. Figures 1 and 2 show an example of the balustrade lighting device of the present invention. Figure 1 is a schematic side view of the entire balustrade of a passenger conveyor, and Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line ■-■. be. In the figure, the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 3 and 4 indicate the same or equivalent parts, and 9 is a shielding plate that covers the outside of the ball lamp 6 (the side opposite to the side panel 2 made of tempered glass). This shielding plate 9 is molded from polycarbonate or other transparent, semi-transparent or opaque plate material, and is arranged along the entire length of the ball lamps 6 in the arrangement direction of the ball lamps 6 as shown in FIG. is fixed to the guide rail 4, and its hanging end extends downward from the lower surface of the ball ramp 6, so that the height dimension is such that the passenger's hand 10 cannot easily reach the ball ramp 6 beyond the hanging end of the shielding plate 9. It has become. In the balustrade illumination device of this embodiment configured as described above, when the ball lamp 6 is turned on, the same illumination effect as the conventional one can be obtained. Furthermore, even if a passenger using the passenger conveyor leans out to the outside of the handrail 2 and attempts to remove the hand IO from the rubber handrail 5 and insert it into the lower surface of the guide rail 4, as shown in FIG. The hand 10 is obstructed by the shielding plate 9 and is prevented from touching the ball lamp 6. Furthermore, if the passenger intentionally tries to touch the ball ramp 6 with his or her hand and leans further out of the handrail 2, there is a risk that the passenger will fall from the handrail 2 to the outside of the passenger conveyor. , the ball lamp 6 cannot be easily touched. Therefore,
Burns or electric shocks caused by touching the ball lamp 6 as in the prior art can be prevented. Further, the shielding plate 9 is disposed close to the ball lamp 6, and by using transparent polycarbonate resin with high temperature resistance and high impact resistance, a safer and higher quality parapet can be obtained. Furthermore, since the lower end of the shielding plate 9 extends downward from the lower surface of the ball lamp 6, the maintainability (ease of replacement) of the ball lamp is not impaired.
It can be made safer.

【Effect of the invention】

As described above, according to the present invention, a shielding plate is arranged on the outside of the illumination ball lamps arranged on the outer lower surface of the guide rail that constitutes the handrail, and the hanging end of the shielding plate is extended downward from the lower end of the ball lamp. This prevents passengers' hands from easily touching the ball ramp, which prevents passengers using the passenger conveyor from touching the ball ramp intentionally or carelessly, and also prevents the risk of burns and electric shock. effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic side view showing the entire passenger conveyor to which the parapet lighting device of the present invention is applied, and Fig. 2 is a section I-II of Fig. 1.
3 is a schematic side view of a passenger conveyor with a conventional balustrade lighting device; FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view along the line; FIG.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line -II/. 1... Passenger conveyor, 2... Handrail, 3... Side panel, 4... Guide rail, 5... Rubber handrail, 6
...Ball lamp, 7...Lamp socket, 8...
Design cover, 9...shielding plate. Note that the same reference numerals in the figures indicate the same or equivalent parts. Agent Masuo Oiwa (2 others) Figure 2

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A guide rail that guides and supports the rubber handrail, a side panel made of tempered glass or the like that supports this guide rail on the truss body, and a large number of ball lamps for lighting arranged on the underside of the guide rail on the outside of this side panel. A parapet lighting device for a passenger conveyor, characterized in that a shielding plate is disposed outside the ball lamp, and a hanging end of the shielding plate extends downward from the lower end of the ball lamp. . (2) The parapet lighting device for a passenger conveyor according to claim 1, wherein the shielding plate is formed from a transparent, translucent, or opaque plate material.