Patent ID: 8469176

Claim:
A construction for an escalator step or a moving walkway plate, comprising a skeleton supporting at least one tread element, the skeleton having load-bearing side cheeks and at least one center cheek, the cheeks extending in a travel direction of the construction, the cheeks each comprising a cheek body and a stiffening wall along edges of the cheek body, the step skeleton being constructed from deep-drawn sheet metal parts connected by components extending transversely to the travel direction, such that, when the construction is loaded, a load force is distributed to all the cheeks, wherein each side cheek has a respective roller supported by an axle pin extending through a drawn cheek eye, each side cheek further having reinforcement means for the cheek eye in the form of a cap engaging the cheek eye adapted and constructed to strengthen the connection of the axle pin with the cheek body and stiffen the cheek body, the cap having a wide supporting cap edge bearing directly against the cheek body and reinforcing an edge of the cheek eye.