Patent ID: 6129442
Filing Date: 2000-10-10
Classification: B66B,E04F,G02B

Abstract:
A lighting device for people carrier systems including escalators and moving pavements having a handrail, a balustrade skirting, a balustrade cooperating with the balustrade skirting at its bottom end and a handrail supported at its upper end, and a step track adjacent to the balustrade skirting, said lighting device comprising:a light-guide which runs essentially in a transport direction of a people carrier system of a length and is continuous, at least in an installed state, along the length of the people carrier system, said light-guide having a first end and a lateral light emission; andat least one light source constructed as a projector and including an electric lamp and a light concentrator whereby said light-guide is provided in one of an area of the handrail and a region of said balustrade skirting and its first end faces said projector, and whereby light generated by said electric lamp is passed through said light concentrator to bundle the light into a concentrated beam and said bundled light beam is projected onto said first end of said light-guide thereby lighting one of the handrail and the step track, respectively, along the transport direction.