Patent ID: 8123373

Claim:
A people conveyor, comprising: a people transportation band; a handrail; a plurality of illumination sources arranged along the transportation band; a control associated with the illumination sources, the control causing operation of the illumination sources to produce illumination that moves along the transportation band; a glass balustrade arranged laterally to the transportation band and supporting the handrail; and a profile for engaging the glass balustrade, the profile having a channel, a portion of the balustrade including an edge of the glass balustrade being received in the channel, an illumination cavity being disposed between an interior surface of the channel and the edge of the glass balustrade, wherein the plurality of illumination sources is arranged in the illumination cavity to project light through the edge of the glass balustrade, wherein the channel has a depth direction which is defined in parallel to lateral walls of the channel in a direction from an open mouth to a base of the channel, and wherein the illumination cavity is an extension of the channel in one of the lateral walls and the illumination cavity extends in a direction perpendicular to the depth direction.