Passenger conveyor safety apparatus

Details Passenger conveyor safety apparatus Passenger conveyor safety apparatus

1996-12-02

1998-09-22

Bidwell, James R.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor or accessory therefor specialized to convey people

With means to control the operation of the section

198326, B65G 4300

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058101470

ABSTRACT:
In an escalator or a moving sidewalk having a skirt panel and, a step or a walk path, defining a gap between the skirt panel and the step or the walk path, a passenger conveyor safety apparatus comprising a main body member having a recessed groove formed therein. A set of brushes residing in the recessed groove, protruding out from the main body member and extending past the gap for preventing an object from being entrapped in the gap.

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Metro Using Brushes on Escalator Gas Problem, Stephen C. Fehr Washington Post, Sep. 9, 1994.

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