Patent ID: 7134539

Claim:
A guard device for a front of an escalator handrail, the guard device having a length approximately equal to a distance between a front end of the handrail and a foremost step of the escalator, the guard device comprising: a guide channel formed at the bottom of said guard device with a predetermined depth to receive a part of the handrail positioned in an entry zone of the escalator that resides between the front end of the handrail and the foremost step of the escalator; a sterilization unit installed in the guard device to sterilize at least part of the handrail of the escalator received in said guide channel; an advertising display unit provided on a top of said guard device on a slant to the end part of the handrail in the entry zone of the escalator; and a control unit which controls said sterilization unit and said advertising display unit with electric power.