Patent ID: 7597182

Claim:
An escalator or moving walk with at least one drive in a reversing area between incoming and outgoing step bands or pallet bands, respectively, and driving wheels or chain wheels that are connected via shafts driven by means of the drive for driving the step band or pallet band, characterized in that at least one of the drives is arranged substantially in a space formed between side plates of the reversing area and the incoming and outgoing step bands or pallet bands, said at least one drive having an axial gear mounted on the shafts of the drive wheels or chain wheels and positioned between the drive wheels or chain wheels and having a motor that is arranged axially parallel to the shafts of the drive wheels or chain wheels, traction means coupling the motor to a fast-running gear input shaft of the axial gear, a slow-running shaft driving each drive wheel, the slow-running shaft being connected to a housing of the axial gear.