Patent ID: 9481552
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: B29C,B66B

Claim Text:
1. A moving handrail for a passenger conveyor, which has an endless structure formed by heating and connecting together both end portions of a handrail developed body into a handrail connection section with a connection die, the handrail developed body comprising: the handrail connection section having a bending stiffness that is reduced from a longitudinal intermediate portion toward a longitudinal outer side of the handrail connection section, wherein, in the handrail connection section, both end portions of the tensile body are overlapped with each other as overlapping portions, and at least a part of a boundary between end portions of the canvas is covered with reinforcement fabric, and wherein a longitudinal dimension of the reinforcement fabric is set smaller than a longitudinal dimension of each of the overlapping portions to arrange the reinforcement fabric within a longitudinal range of each of the overlapping portions, to thereby reduce the bending stiffness of the handrail connection section from the longitudinal intermediate portion toward the longitudinal outer side of the handrail connection section.