Otis Elevator Company

Michael Kruse

Hermann W Ahls

Hans-Dietrich Riedel

Martin Mehlert

Peter Borchers

Dietmar Kruger

Margarete Solbach

Reiner Wallbaum

An information display and control device for a passenger conveyor includes a housing and a post. The device is separate from the passenger conveyor and is positioned at a desirable location that is viewable by passengers approaching the passenger conveyor. The housing is mounted on the post at a predetermined height to avoid inadvertent tampering with the components of the housing. In one particular embodiment, the components of the housing include a traffic light, a control panel and an emergency switch.

Information display and control device for a passenger conveyor

An apparatus for driving a handrail of a passenger conveying device is provided, having a drive wheel and apparatus for pressuring the handrail against the drive wheel. The apparatus for pressuring includes a plurality of rollers, made of a polymeric material having a hardness range less than that of the handrail. Specifically, the polymeric material is made of a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer having a Shore A hardness in a range equal to or greater than 62 and less than or equal to 68 Shore A.

Handrail drive pressure chain with soft rollers

A combplate for a people moving device is provided having a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, a comb having a plurality of fingers, and a wear resistant polymeric coating, having a color, bonded to the combplate and made of a thermal setting plasticized polyvinylchloride plastic.

Combplate with a wear resistant coating

The moving handrail of an escalator or moving walkway is guided around the curved newel of the escalator balustrade by a plastic guide system. A metal base member is frictionally fitted onto the outer edge of the glass balustrade. An extruded aluminum profile is mounted in the upper and outer surface of the base. A series of spaced pads formed from a low coefficient of friction plastic are fixed to the profile to form the contact sliding surface for the handrail.

Handrail guide assembly for escalator newel

A treadplate for a people moving device is provided having a tread surface with a plurality of ribs extending out from the tread surface, and a wear resistant polymeric coating, having a color, bonded to the treadplate. The polymeric coating being made of a thermal setting plasticized polyvinylchloride plastic.

Wear resistant safety coating for people moving device treadplates

An escalator or people mover having steps or pallets which are supported by axles that are driven by a step chain, utilize a split bearing disposed between the axle and the step or pallet. The split bearing allows for rapid replacement of a worn bearing. The split bearing has a shaped outer portion for cooperating with the step or pallet to prevent rotation of the bearing relative to the step.

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Minden, Germany

Michael Kruse