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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:
Nov. 22, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Kruse, Minden, DE;
Hans-Dietrich Riedel, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198335 ;
Abstract
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.