Patent ID: 8186928

Claim:
An accommodating and transport device for a prefabricated step band of an escalator or a prefabricated pallet band of a moving walkway, the accommodating and transport device comprising: a transportable frame body separate and independent of the escalator or moving walkway and including: a plurality of support profiles coupled to one another; lateral guide tracks arranged to receive rollers connected to each of the steps of the step band or pallets of the pallet band when the steps or pallets are stacked inside the frame body for transport purposes, wherein the lateral guide tracks include two superposed guide tracks coupled to and extending between the support profiles on each side of the frame body, wherein the two superposed guide tracks on each side of the frame body include an upper guide track and an associated lower guide track; and a ramp on each side of the frame body coupled respectively to the upper guide track on each side of the frame body to form a supply and discharge area directed into a direction of the associated lower guide track on each side of the frame body.