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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeharu Kitamura, Inazawa, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198330 ; 198855 ; 474 31 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for driving a passenger conveyor including a plurality of steps connected to each other by a step chain for moving the steps comprises a motor, a reduction gear driven by the motor, a chain gearing device, driven by the reduction gear, for driving the step chain, and a stepless change gear for connecting the rotary output shaft of the motor to an input shaft of the reduction gear. The stepless change gear steplessly changes the relative rotational speeds of the motor and the reduction gear.