Patent ID: 6752255
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
A handrail-forming device for a high-speed moving walkway or the like, said device being accelerated and decelerated respectively at its upstream end and at its downstream end, said device including handrail elements organized in a manner such that the visible handrail elements which constitute the top run of the device and which are moved in the downstream direction, are moved at a decelerated speed in a decelerated safety zone which is situated upstream from and in the vicinity of the downstream end of said device, said device including a protection and safety assembly which covers the downstream end of said device and which, in said decelerated safety zone, includes a moving member disposed above said handrail elements and adapted to be entrained by a foreign body itself entrained by said handrail elements in the same direction as and at the same speed as said handrail elements along a substantially horizontal path, and detector means adapted to detect predetermined displacement of said member in said direction, and to cause at least said device to stop, wherein said assembly includes actuator means for causing said member as entrained in this way by a foreign body to be moved in said direction at a speed higher than the speed of said foreign body.