Endless escalator handrail and escalator

An endless escalator-handrail comprising:

• a thermoplastic resin member having a first and a second curved portions formed oppositely on both lateral sides of a flat portion of the member, and joined at a joint section by melting cut ends of the member;
• a flat woven fabric bonded to an inner surface of the thermoplastic resin member to cover the flat portion and the first and the second curved portions;
• a first patch cloth having a quadrilateral shape whose opposite lateral sides are inclined in the same direction, for being placed on a first curved portion side in the joint section;
• and
• a second patch cloth having a quadrilateral shape whose opposite lateral sides are inclined in the same direction, for being placed on a second curved portion side in the joint section, wherein
• the first patch cloth is bonded onto the flat woven fabric at an inward side of the first curved portion, and the second patch cloth is bonded onto the flat woven fabric at an inward side of the second curved portion.