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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2002
Richard Lauch, Hopatcong, NJ (US);
Inventio AG, Hergiswil, CH;
Abstract
An illuminated escalator combplate has a main combplate portion and a combteeth element extending forwardly of the main portion. A series of light emitters are mounted to a forward edge of the main portion, and are aligned with a corresponding series of light pipes in the combteeth element which channel the light of the emitters from a rearward wall adjacent the main portion forward edge to an upper surface of the combteeth element where the light can be seen by escalator users and serves as a safety indicator to demarcate the intersection between the fixed combplate and the moving escalator step plates. The light emitter may be in alternately-illuminated, interleaved gangs to increase visability.