EP0366575A1 - Device for ordering the opening and closing of wings, such as doors, windows, portals or the like - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the automatic opening and closing of the shutters (1), or the like.

The housing (4) actuates the rotary motor arm (13) which, by the slide (17), opens or closes the shutter. The boxes (7) are remotely controlled from a central unit controlling all the openings in the building and, moreover, coupled to an alarm central unit.

Application: shutter remote control,; gates, French windows of a building, with built-in central alarm.

Description

The present invention relates to a device for controlling the opening and closing of leaves or leaves of the type of those encountered in houses or premises, commercial or residential. These leaves can in particular constitute a door, a window, a gate, shutters, or any other similar element.

Devices are known for remote control of a gate or the like. However, these known devices offer limited possibilities because:
- on the one hand, each of them generally concerns only one leaf, or only one opening;
- on the other hand, it can only be used for the single "open-close" function of the leaf.

In particular, if it is known to use such a system to open and close a gate, nothing is provided for the shutters of a house.

Thus, if it is a villa with several doors and windows, the operation of opening or closing all the shutters of the house is a long and tedious maneuver, requiring to travel through all the rooms of the house .

Finally, if the owner wishes to equip his house or his premises against theft, he must also provide alarm systems to be installed in various places.

The object of the present invention is to avoid these drawbacks by providing a control system which not only is well suited for opening and closing leaves, but also allows centralized control of several leaves, as well as an advantageous combination. with alarm systems.

A device according to the invention for controlling the opening and closing of at least one leaf, articulated on an axis of hinges, hinges, hinges or the like carried by a fixed frame, comprises a motor housing integral with the frame and connected on the face of the leaf which is turned inwards when this leaf is closed, and it is characterized in that the housing comprises a motor shaft rotating in both directions and oriented parallel to the axis of the hinges or the like of the leaf, while the bond with this is ensured by at least one rigid arm secured to the motor shaft and connected by articulation to the leaf whose pivoting on the axis of the hinges is controlled in one direction and in the other according to an amplitude of 180 degrees.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the rigid motor arm ends with an axis taken in a slide from the inner face of the leaf, slide in which it slides in one direction and in the other.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the end of the slide which corresponds to the position of the sliding pin when the leaf is closed, comprises a transverse locking notch making the sliding movement of the axis in the slide irreversible. , that is to say integrating it in the direction where the leaf would be motor at the opening and would request the sliding axis.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the rigid motor arm ends in its articulation on a link whose opposite end is articulated on an axis carried by the inner face of the leaf.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the control unit is fixed to the face of the frame which is parallel to the door leaf and concealed by the latter when it is in the 180 ° opening position.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the control unit is fixed to the face of the frame which is perpendicular to the plane defined by the leaf when it is in both the open and closed position.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the control unit contains an electric motor whose operation is remote.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the remote triggering is operated from a central cabinet to which several control boxes are connected, so that a single cabinet allows several shutters, doors to be opened and closed remotely , gates or the like. According to another characteristic of the invention, the control unit also contains a detector capable of distinguishing:
- if it is the rotation of the motor shaft which causes the leaf to pivot;
- or if it is an attempt to open the leaf by breaking and entering which tends to cause the shaft to rotate.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the detector of the control unit is connected to an alarm system which it triggers in the event of an attempted break-in.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the leaf control unit includes a button, the depression of which causes the mechanism to disengage, to allow manual opening of the leaf.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the return to the release position of the declutching button again causes the mechanism to be clutched, so that the leaf is then locked in the position where it is at this instant.

The appended drawing, given by way of nonlimiting example, will allow a better understanding of the invention and the advantages which it is likely to provide.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the central control cabinet includes a programmed system capable of triggering an opening sequence or a closing sequence, during which the leaves are controlled in cascade, one after the other. or two by two. According to another characteristic of the invention, the central cabinet comprises a programmed system capable of fixing the opening and / or closing hours of the shutters, gates or the like.

It is understood that such a device has many advantages. In particular :
- the control can be both manual and mechanized;
- the order can be centralized for several doors or windows of the same house;
- automatic opening and / or closing can be programmed at times fixed in advance;
- the sequenced cascade control makes it possible to reduce the electrical consumption of the assembly;
- the possibility of incorporating a centralized alarm system considerably reduces installation costs.

• Figure 1 montre en position d'ouverture, un vantail de volet d'une porte-fenêtre de villa équipé d'un disposi­tif selon l'invention.
• Figure 2 est une vue de détail correspondante, quand le volet est en position intermédiaire.
• Figure 3 montre les volets refermés.
• Figure 4 est une vue de détail suivant la flèche IV (figure 1).
• Figure 5 est une vue de face correspondante.
• Figure 6 est une vue en plan d'une variante pour une position intermédiaire du vantail, analogue à celle de la figure 2.
• Figure 7 est la vue correspondante quand le vantail est fermé.
• Figure 8 est une vue schématique en plan d'un boî­tier de commande avec détecteur d'alarme incorporé.
• Figure 9 le montre quand le vantail est en position intermédiaire.
• Figure 10 montre le vantail fermé.
• Figure 11 est une vue éclatée pour une forme d'éxé­cution possible du boîtier de commande des figures 1 à 7.
• Figure 12 est un schéma d'ensemble montrant une villa dont les volets sont commandés et protégés à distance par un dispositif centralisé selon l'invention.
• Figure 13 montre une variante de volets dont la fer­meture automatique est complétée par une espagnolette.
• Figure 14 est une coupe en plan suivant XIV - XIV (figure 13).
• Figure 15 montre le mécanisme intérieur du boîtier d'espagnolette.
• Figures 16, 17 et 18 sont trois vues successives du boîtier de glissière à la position du volet fermé, quand les derniers mouvements du bras actionnent le basculement et le coulissement transversal du chien d'espagnolette.
• Figure 19 est une vue éclatée du boîtier de glissi­ère correspondant.
• Figure 20 montre le pied d'espagnolette.
• Figure 21 est une vue en perspective du verrou cou­ lissant qui actionne le boîtier d'espagnolette.
• Figures 22 et 23 montrent le premier demi-boîtier de glissière à deux phases du mouvement du chien.
• Figures 24 et 25 montrent le second demi-boîtier de glissière aux phases correspondantes.

In short, the invention brings notable advantages in terms of both comfort and safety.

• Figure 1 shows in the open position, a shutter leaf of a villa French window fitted with a device according to the invention.
• Figure 2 is a corresponding detail view, when the flap is in the intermediate position.
• Figure 3 shows the shutters closed.
• Figure 4 is a detail view along arrow IV (Figure 1).
• Figure 5 is a corresponding front view.
• FIG. 6 is a plan view of a variant for an intermediate position of the leaf, similar to that of FIG. 2.
• Figure 7 is the corresponding view when the leaf is closed.
• Figure 8 is a schematic plan view of a control box with incorporated alarm detector.
• Figure 9 shows this when the leaf is in the intermediate position.
• Figure 10 shows the leaf closed.
• Figure 11 is an exploded view for a possible embodiment of the control box of Figures 1 to 7.
• Figure 12 is an overall diagram showing a villa whose shutters are controlled and protected remotely by a centralized device according to the invention.
• Figure 13 shows a variant of shutters, the automatic closing of which is completed by a espagnolette.
• Figure 14 is a plan section along XIV - XIV (Figure 13).
• Figure 15 shows the interior mechanism of the Spanish case.
• Figures 16, 17 and 18 are three successive views of the slide housing in the closed flap position, when the last movements of the arm actuate the tilting and the transverse sliding of the spanish dog.
• Figure 19 is an exploded view of the corresponding slide housing.
• Figure 20 shows the spanish foot.
• Figure 21 is a perspective view of the neck lock smoothing device that activates the spanish case.
• Figures 22 and 23 show the first half-slide housing with two phases of the movement of the dog.
• Figures 24 and 25 show the second half-slide housing with the corresponding phases.

There are shown in the drawings two leaves 1 which constitute the shutters of a French window 2. Each leaf 1 is articulated on a fixed axis 3 defined by hinges or hinges of the fixed frame 5.

On this is fixed a motor housing 7. This is connected to the face 9 of the leaf 1 which is turned inward when the leaf 1 is closed (FIGS. 3, 7 and 10). The housing 7 carries a vertical drive shaft 11 on the projecting part of which a rigid horizontal arm 13 is wedged. On the end of this is fixed a vertical axis 15 whose projecting ends are taken in a slide 17 carried horizontally by the side 9 of the leaf 1. The vertical axis 15 can slide in one direction and in the other (arrows 19 and 21) along the slide 17 depending on whether one closes (Figure 7) or opens (Figure 4) 1, while the arm 13 rotates on its shaft 11. To facilitate pivoting of the leaf 1 along an amplitude of 180 degrees around the axis 3, the arm 13 has been given an angled profile (FIGS. 2, 4, 6 and 7). At its end 23 corresponding to the position of the axis 15 when the leaf 1 is formed (FIG. 7), the slide 17 has a transverse locking notch 25, oriented towards the outside of the face 9.

When at the end of the travel, the axis 15 is pushed back into the notch 25, it locks the leaf 1 in the closed position.

Indeed, if it is sought from the outside to open the leaf 1 by break-in (FIG. 7, arrow 22), the resistance of the arm 13 and of the housing 7 maintains the axis 15 at the bottom of the notch 25 (arrow 24), so that the spout 26 defined at the angular junction of the notch 25 and the rectilinear part 28 of the slide 17 (Figure 6) opposes the opening of leaf 1 in the direction of the arrow 22. The mechanism is thus made irreversible because if, on the contrary, it is the shaft 11 and the arm 13 which rotate in the direction of the arrow 30 (FIG. 7), there is nothing to prevent the axis 15 from engaging in the rectilinear part 28 in order to slide therein in the direction of the arrow 21, and open the leaf 1 along the arrow 22.

According to the structure 1 of the frame 5, the box 7 can be fixed:
- or applied against a wall (Figures 1, 2 and 4 to 10);
- or else embedded in a wall (Figures 8, 9, 10).

Similarly, the housing 7 can be fixed:
- Or on the face 31 of the frame 5, which is parallel to the leaf 1 and hidden by it in the 180 ° open position (Figure 8);
- Or on the face 33 which is perpendicular to the face 31, and located in the thickness of the wall.

In the housing 7, there is an electric motor with a gear motor which drives the shaft 11 in one direction and in the other. This motor 35 is preferably a stepping motor, that is to say that it makes it possible to stop and immobilize the leaf 1 at any desired angular position around its axis 3.

On the shaft 11, a disc 32 is wedged comprising two notches 34 and 36, where a lug 38 can fall. This lug is provided on the rocker 40 that a pusher 42 with spring 44 pushes against the center 32-34-36 (arrow 46).

An electromagnet 48 makes it possible, when energized, to move the pusher 42 in the opposite direction to the arrow 46 (arrow 50, FIG. 9).

The position of the notches 34 and 36 on the disc 32 corresponds to the two angular positions, respectively closed (FIG. 10), and open (FIG. 8) of the leaf 1.

The electromagnet 48 is automatically excited at each command of the motor 35 to allow it to rotate the leaf 1.

A known type of torque limiter, not shown, is interposed between the control and the shaft 11 to avoid any deterioration of the device in the event of significant force on the leaf 1, for example during a attempted break-in.

The assembly 32 to 48 constitutes a detector 49, capable of detecting whether the motor 35 drives the leaf 1, or if it is the reverse.

A push button 53 is provided on the housing 7, to allow, when pressed (Figure 9, arrow 42), to raise the rocker 40 against the spring 44. This releases the pin 38 out of the notch 34 or 36 where it was, disengages the mechanism 55 and then allows the user to maneuver freely, by hand, the leaf 1, if desired.

When the assembly is at rest (electromagnet 48 not excited), it suffices to release the button 53, so that the mechanism 55 is again engaged.

The triggering of the motor 35 and of the electromagnet 48 is remotely controlled:
- either from a central cabinet 37;
- Either from an individual box 54 placed inside the lacal, near the door, window, or French window 2 which corresponds to it.

In the case of centralized control for the whole of a villa 56 (FIG. 12), the central cabinet 37 is connected to several control boxes 7, 47, 57, 67. Thus, the single cabinet 37 makes it possible to open and to close several shutters, doors, gates or the like remotely 39, 41, 43, 45.

In addition, the detector 49 of each control unit 7, 47, 57, 67, is connected to an alarm system 51, which it triggers in the event of an attempted break-in. This also makes it possible to locate the leaf, the door or the window where the incident occurs.

In the example illustrated in FIGS. 13 to 25, the internal face of two flaps 52 and 53 has been shown. Each of them is controlled as before from a motor housing 7, the pivoting arm 13 of which is provided with a terminal axis 15 which slides in the slide 17 of a slide housing. The latter is formed by the face-to-face assembly of a first half-casing 54 and a second half-casing 55.

In the half-housing 54, the corresponding half of the slide 17 ends in a flat hollow housing 56 in which can slide flat in all directions, an arc-of-a-circle boss 57 of the dog 58 illustrated in particular in the figure 19.

The dog 58 defines two forks 59 and 60 oriented orthogonally in the plate forming the body 61. On either side of this body 61 protrude pins 62 and 63 forming the ends of the same transverse axis. In addition, opposite the boss 57, there is another lug 64.

In the half-housing 55, behind the flat housing 56 is an oblong housing 65 designed to receive the lug 62.

Similarly, the lug 63 is housed and slides in an oblong housing 66 provided in the half-housing 54, in the space defined by the concavity of an L-shaped recess 67 extending like the fork the slide 17.

Finally, in a slide 68 hollowed out in the two half-housings 54 and 55, slide the two sides of a plane lock 69 (FIG. 21). This comprises two recesses 70 and 71 defining between them a transverse axis 72 which is received in the fork 59 of the dog 58.

The plan lock 69 is connected by a screw to a sliding bar 70 which can end:
- Either by a known type of targette not shown;
- Either by a rack 71 which, in a pinion housing 72, actuates the rotary bar 73 of a set of spans 74.

Thus, the simple longitudinal sliding of the bar 70 (double arrow 75) ensures an additional locking (by bolt or by espagnolette) of the two flaps 52 and 53 one on the other.

The operation is as follows:

When at the end of closing the transverse axis 15 arrives at the end of the slide 15, it engages in the fork 60 of the dog 58 (FIG. 16), then rises transversely (arrow 76, FIG. 17) as in the case of the aforementioned locking notch 25. Here, in addition to this locking function, the axis 15 causes the dog 58 to tip over, therefore the sliding of the locking bar 70.

Unlocking takes place in the reverse sequence.

In all of the above cases, in the event of a power failure, it is still possible to open the doors or shutters from inside the door or window:
it then suffices to act manually, for example on the arm 13 or on its pivot shaft 11.

According to a preferred embodiment, the lug 63 of the dog 58 comes to bear and tilt against a transverse face 77 of the L-shaped recess 67 when the assembly is close to the locked position.

Claims (20)

1- Device for controlling the opening and closing of at least one leaf (1) articulated on an axis (3) of hinges, hinges, hinges or the like carried by a fixed frame (5), comprising a motor housing (7 ) integral with the frame (5) and connected to the face (9) of the leaf (1) facing inwards when this leaf (1) is closed, and characterized in that the housing (7) comprises a motor shaft (11) rotating in both directions and oriented parallel to the axis (3) of the hinges or the like of the leaf (1), while the connection with the latter is ensured by at least one rigid arm (13) integral with the motor shaft (11) and connected by articulation to the leaf (1) whose pivoting on the axis (3) of the hinges is controlled in one direction and in the other according to an amplitude of 180 degrees. 2- Control device according to claim 1, characterized in that the rigid motor arm (13) ends with an axis (15) taken in a slide (17) of the inner face (9) of the leaf (1), slide (17) in which it slides in one direction (19) and in the other (21). 3- control device according to claim 2 characterized in that the end (23) of the slide (17) which corresponds to the position of the sliding axis (15) when the leaf (1) is closed, has a notch transverse locking (25) making irreversible the sliding movement of the axis (15) in the slide (17), that is to say preventing it in the direction (21) where the leaf (1) would be motor at the opening and would request the sliding pin (15). 4- Control device according to claim 1 characterized in that the rigid motor arm (13) ends with its articulation (27) on a rod (29) whose opposite end is articulated on an axis (31) carried by the inner face (9) of the leaf (1). 5- control device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit (7) is fixed to the face (31) of the frame (5) which is parallel to the leaf (1) and hidden by it when in the 180 degree open position. 6- Control device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit (7) is fixed to the face (33) of the frame (5) which is perpendicular to the plane defined by the leaf (1), when it is also in position both opening and closing. 7 - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit (7) contains an electric motor (35), the operation of which is operated remotely. 8 - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the remote triggering is operated from a cabinet (37) to which are connected several control boxes (7), (47), (57) , (67), so that a single cabinet (37) allows remote opening and closing of several shutters, doors, gates, or the like (39), (41) (43), (45). 9 - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit (7) also contains a detector (49), capable of distinguishing:
- if it is the rotation of the motor shaft (11) which causes the leaf (1) to pivot;
- Or if it is an attempt to open the leaf (1) by break-in, which tends to cause the rotation of the shaft (11). 10 - Device according to claim 9, characterized in that the detector (49) of the control unit (7) is connected to an alarm system (51) which it triggers, in the event of an attempted break-in. 11 - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit (7) of the leaf (1) comprises a button (53), the depression of which causes the disengagement of the mechanism (55), to allow manual opening of the leaf (1). 12 - Device according to claim 11, characterized in that the return to the rest position of the release button (53) again causes the clutch of the mechanism (55). 13- Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing (7), (47), (57), (67) is, in addition, connected to an individual control box (54), placed inside the room. 14- Device according to claim 11, characterized in that the mechanism (55) comprises: - a cam (32), (34), (36), wedged on the shaft (11); - A lug (38), that carries a rocker (40) to fall into one or the other of the notches (34) (leaf (1) closed) and (36) (leaf (1) open); - an electromagnet (48) with opposing spring (44) to act on the rocker (40). 15- Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a torque limiter is interposed between the shaft (11) and its control. 16- Device according to any one of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that at the end of the slide (17) is a tilting and sliding dog (58) having a first fork (58) to receive the transverse axis (15) of the arm (13), and a second fork (59) permanently engaged on the transverse axis (72) of a sliding bolt (69). 17- Device according to claim 16, characterized in that the sliding latch - (69) actuates at least one sliding locking bolt. 18- Device according to claim 16, characterized in that the sliding latch (69) actuates a pivoting bar (73) to at least one spanish plate (74) via a housing (72). 19- Device according to claim 18, characterized in that the latch (69) is connected by a sliding bar (70) to a rack (71) which meshes on the gears of the housing (72) to rotate the bar (73) . 20- Device according to claim 16, characterized in that the dog (58) has a flat body -61) of which protrude:
- on one side, a lug - (62) and a boss (57) around the fork - (60);
- on the other face, two lugs (63) and (64), this boss (57) and these lugs (62), (63), (64) cooperating with recesses (56), (65), (66 ) and (67) of the two half-housings (54) and (55).

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