Patents Examined by James R. Biwell
  • Patent number: 4871056
    Abstract: In a balustrade for a passenger conveyor, a main deck is fixedly mounted to an upper end of a vertically upright balustrade panel, and a guide frame is arranged on the main deck for slidingly guiding a handrail. In order to easily carry out an operation of fixedly mounting the main deck to the upper end of the balustrade panel, at least one fixing instrument is provided which has an inverted U-shaped fitting groove on one side and a fixing section on the other side, and the main deck is fixedly mounted to the upper end of the balustrade panel through the fixing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuichi Saito