Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhiko Teshima

Kenichi Fujii

Takayuki Kikuchi

Yoshinobu Ishikawa

Tadashi Munakata

Yoshio Ogimura

Shigeo Nakagaki

Kazuhisa Hara

Hitoshi Kawamoto

Yoshifumi Ikeda

Tomohiko Matsuura

A footstep guide rail () (rail body) is arranged so that a level H of a horizontal surface is set at the position obtained by adding a designated offset &#x3b4; to a tangential line L of a drive sprocket () and the footstep guide rail () is provided, at its one end on an introductory side of the drive sprocket (), with a curved part (). At a reference position closest to the drive sprocket (), the horizontal surface of the footstep guide rail () is changed to the curved part (). Consequently, it is possible to absorb velocity unevenness of one footstep roller approaching the drive sprocket ().

Conveyer apparatus

A mountainous or valley-shaped curved partis provided in a part of a footstep guide railfor guiding a movement of footstep rollerslinked by a footstep chain, the part being positioned in the vicinity of a drive sprocket. Consequently, owing to meshing of the footstep rollerswith the drive sprocket, an unevenness in velocity of the footstep rollersis absorbed by the curved part, so that a moving velocity of the footstep rollersmoving on the downstream of the curved partis maintained constantly, suppressing vibrating of the footsteps

Conveyer apparatus having footsteps

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Tokyo, Japan

Nobuhiko Teshima