Patent ID: 8522951

Claim:
A moving walkway comprising a moveable band of pallets on side guides and a drive mechanism; the pallets having pallet rollers movable on the side guides driving the band of pallets along a forward movement section, a return section and intermediate overturning sections; and the drive mechanism including at least one pair of drive wheels having a common shaft around which one of overturning sections of the band of pallets runs; wherein: the drive wheels have free-rotating peripheral rollers which are assembled in said wheels through shafts which are equidistant and parallel to the shaft of the drive wheels; the pallets of the band of pallets have on an inner surface engaging formations which can be coupled on peripheral rollers of the drive wheels; and the band of pallets describes in the overturning section running around the drive wheels a curved trajectory in which the engaging formations describe a trajectory which is tangent to the drive wheels at a point or section in which said formations are coupled on the peripheral rollers of the drive wheels.