BALUSTRADE EINER FAHRTREPPE ODER EINES PERSONEN- FOERDERBANDES

The balustrade for transportation apparatus, such as an escalator or a moving passenger walkway contains upright balustrade panels directly laterally guiding tread elements, such as steps or tread plates so as to dispense with both of the conventionally employed inner balustrade decks with their associated inner deck covers. A respective stable support profile member connected with a support body and arranged at both sides of a transport element, such as a step or tread plate band receives the base of the associated balustrade panel. The heads of screws or threaded bolts required for fastening the associated balustrade panel are arranged counter-sunk in openings of such balustrade panel. Apart from the savings in cost realized with the invention it is also possible to reduce the entire structural width of the transportation apparatus. Due to the elimination of the inner balustrade deck the step or tread plate band also can be arranged at an elevated position in relation to the outer balustrade deck, so that when using glass balustrades there is visibly discernible the movement and especially the direction of movement of the step or tread plate band from both external sides of the transportation apparatus.