Patent ID: 8020687

Claim:
A method of enhancing standing-surfaces of platform-components of an escalator or a moving walkway which, in operation, is able to move in a continuous loop of a plurality of mutually connected platform-components, and in which the standing-surface of each platform-component has an alternating series of elongate, parallel valleys and peaks that generally align axially with the travel direction of the platform-components, the method comprising: using position-maintenance-means of an enhancement apparatus to maintain the enhancement apparatus in a constant position relative to the escalator or moving walkway such that all the standing-surfaces of the platform-components are able to pass under the enhancement apparatus one followed by another as a result of movement of the continuous loop of the mutually connected platform-components; and using applicator-means of the enhancement apparatus, when the escalator or moving walkway is in operation in situ, to apply a flowable enhancement-material to one or more peaks of the standing-surfaces of the moving platform-components at which location on the one or more peaks the flowable enhancement-material solidifies in order to enhance surface characteristics of the peaks of the standing-surfaces.