FR2564513A1 - DEVICE FOR LOCKING AND PROVIDING PORTABLE INFORMATION MEDIA - Google Patents

Abstract

DEVICE 1 FOR BLOCKING AND PROVIDING A FIRST PORTABLE INFORMATION MEDIUM USING A SECOND PORTABLE INFORMATION MEDIA AND RECIPROCALLY, FORMED FOR EXAMPLE BY KEYS 8, 9, INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND MEDIA MEANS OF RECEPTION AND RECOGNITION OF THE SAID INFORMATION MEDIA, FORMED BY EXAMPLES OF SECURITY BLOCKS 2, 3 SUITABLE TO RECEIVE THE SAID KEYS 8, 9, AND MEANS FOR BLOCKING ONE OF THE SAID INFORMATION MEDIA IN ITS RECEPTION MEANS WHEN THE OTHER IS SEPARATED FROM ITS MEANS OF RECEPTION AND TO MAKE AVAILABLE AT LEAST ONE OF THE SAID INFORMATION MEDIA BLOCKED PREVIOUSLY IN ITS MEANS OF RECEPTION WHEN THE OTHER IS AVAILABLE IN ITS MEANS OF RECEPTION.

Description

"Device for blocking and providing information media

portable stations ".

  The present invention relates to a device for blocking and providing portable information carriers formed,

  for example, by keys or the like.

  In many public and private places and in particular

  culier in clubs or associations including sports, a multi-

  Many people can have access to a multiplicity of places.

  In current practice, each person is assigned the set

  ble means, generally constituted by keys, which allow the actuation of the closing and opening means of access to the premises, to the cupboards or to all other elements to be protected by lockable closing means. This solution has drawbacks. It is indeed necessary to reproduce each actuating means as many times as there are people, each person must carry with them all of these means and the

  risks of loss are significant and require reproductions.

  The present invention aims in particular to remedy these drawbacks and proposes a device which, in the above application, makes it possible to assign to each person only one

actuation means.

  The device according to the present invention is a device

  blocking and provision of a first information carrier

  portable training using a second information medium

portable, and vice versa.

  According to the present invention, this device is

  as it includes first means of reception and recognition

  sance of said first information carrier, second means for receiving and recognizing said second information carrier and means for blocking one of the information carriers in its receiving means when the other is separated from its means of reception and to make available at least one of said information carriers blocked beforehand in its reception means

  when the other is disposed in its means of reception.

  In an alternative embodiment, the device according to the present invention comprises, as an information carrier, keys and as means for receiving these keys, security blocks formed

  each by a barrel mounted in a fixed cylindrical element receiving

  tor of this barrel, each of the keys being able to be inserted or removed from the safety block associated with it only when its barrel is in a determined position relative to its cylindrical element, means being provided for rotating said barrels of such so that they cannot be at the same time in said determined positions of introduction and extraction

said keys.

  In this variant, said connecting means are of

  preferably formed by lever arms respectively linked in rotation

  tion to said barrels, each of these lever arms forming a stop for the other when it is in said determined orientation. These lever arms can be connected by means of a rod or

of a pusher.

  Also in this variant, the safety blocks are preferably arranged in a housing having openings

  access to these security blocks for said keys. These safety blocks

  advantage can be maintained and positioned one by

  compared to each other by the interior walls of this housing.

  In accordance with the present invention, one of the portable information carriers is produced in as many copies as there are authorized persons, each of these copies being assigned to a person and possibly carrying means of recognizing the person. to whom it is allocated, while the other portable information carrier carries means which allow its use in different places or carry other portable information carriers. The present invention will be better understood from the study of a device for blocking and making available a first key using a second key and vice versa, described by way of nonlimiting example and illustrated on the drawing in which: - Figure I shows a longitudinal section along two parallel planes I and Ib of Figure 2, of a device according to the present invention; - and Figure 2 shows a cross section along

II-II of the device of FIG. 1.

  The device shown in the figures and generally identified by the reference I comprises two safety blocks generally identified by the references 2 and 3 and

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  Represented in exterior views which respectively include elements

  cylindrical elements 4 and 5 in which barrels 6 and 7 are arranged, these safety blocks being of a conventional type so that it is not necessary to describe them in more detail. These safety blocks 2 and 3 are adapted to receive the keys 8 and 9 respectively and are such that the keys 8 and 9 can only be introduced into the barrels 6 and 7 if these barrels have a determined orientation relative to the cylindrical elements 4 and 5 and that the barrels 6 and 7 are locked in this orientation if the keys 8

and 9 are extracted.

  The safety blocks 2 and 3 are arranged parallel to the inside of a box 10 of parallelepipedal shape, the end walls II and 12 of which have openings 13 and 14 respectively, the opening 13 allowing the introduction of the key. 8 in the safety block 2 while the opening 14 allows the introduction

  of the key 9 in the security block 3.

  As can be seen in Figure 2, the safety blocks

  rity 2 and 3 are in contact with the walls of the housing 10 and their

  fixed cylindrical elements are also connected by an element 15.

  The safety blocks 2 and 3 have two lever arms 16 and 17 which are linked in rotation to their respective barrels 6 and 7, these lever arms 16 and 17 extending in the same direction with respect to their parallel axes of rotation. . The lever arm 17 carries a rod or pusher which extends towards the lever arm 16 and which constitutes a spacer element linking in rotation the lever arms 16 and 17 and consequently the barrels 6 and 7 so that these lever arms 16 and 17 and consequently the barrels 6 and 7 of the blocks of

  safety 2 and 3 are necessarily angularly offset.

  The device 1 shown in the figures works

as follows.

  When mounting the device 1, it is necessary that at least one of the safety blocks 2 and 3 is provided with its key. For example, the device 1 has been mounted with the key 9 placed in the safety block 3 so that the barrel 7 and its lever 17

  can turn. The key 8 is not placed in the safety block

  rity 2, its barrel 6 and its lever arm 16 are held in the determined position for inserting the key 8. Thanks to the rod 18, the lever arm 17 and the barrel 7 are angularly offset relative to the position d introduction or extraction of the key 9 so that this previously arranged key 9 cannot be extracted from the safety block 3. The barrels 6 and 7, the lever arms 16 and 17 and the key 9 are in the position shown on

Figures 1 and 2.

  If the key 8 is introduced into the safety block 2, its barrel 6 is released which can then rotate with its lever arm 16. It follows that it is possible, thanks to the key 9, to pivot the barrel 7 and its lever arm 17 of the safety block 3 to its key extraction position 14. When the key 9 is returned to its extraction position, the barrel 6 and its lever arm 16, thanks to the rod 18, come in a position angularly offset with respect to the extraction position of the key 8 which is then blocked in the safety block 2. It is then possible,

  in this position, extract the key 9 from the security block 3.

  - By placing the key 9 again in the safety block 3, the barrel 7 and its lever arm 17 are released in rotation so that it is possible to bring back, thanks to the key 8, the barrel 6 and its lever arm 16 in the key extraction position 8 which can then be extracted, the key 9 being again blocked in the safety block 3 because its barrel 7 and its lever arm 17 are angularly offset by relative to the extraction position of the

key 9.

  It is therefore noted that when the two keys 8 and 9 are in the respective security blocks 2 and 3, one can extract one or the other of these two keys 8 and 9. However, when one of the keys is extracted , it is impossible to extract the other key found

  blocked in the safety block that carries it.

  One of the applications of the device 1 represented on the

  figures consists in making a multiplicity of keys 8 which are cha-

  can be assigned to a person, each of the keys 8 carrying for example a reference code of the person to whom it is assigned and the key 9 carries a bunch of keys, for example by means of a ring, each of the keys this set of keys allowing the actuation of a multiplicity of locks for access to premises,

cabinets or others.

  If one of the people needs to use the bunch of keys carried by the key 9 suspended from the device 1, he introduces his key 8 into the security block 2 and can extract the key 9

  of device 1, its key 8 remaining blocked in device 1.

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  After having used the keyring associated with the key 9, she introduces the key 9 into the device 1 and she can extract her key 8 from the security block 2 and take it away, the key 9 provided with the

  keychain again locked in security block 3.

  In this variant, it can be seen that all of the keys associated with the key 9 can remain permanently on the device] while each of the persons authorized to use the key ring

  associated with key 9 need only take one key 8 with you.

  Of course, the device 1 is fixed in a determined location, for example only accessible to people with a

  key 8. For this, the housing 10 may have fixing lugs 19.

  The present invention is not limited to the example below.

  above described. We could have chosen security blocks having lever arms angularly offset from the position of the barrels allowing the introduction or extraction of the associated key. In this way, the rod 18 can be eliminated and each of these lever arms forms a stop for the other when it is in said position. In addition, one could have provided a housing whose shape and structure would maintain and position the

  safety blocks relative to each other without it being necessary

  be able to assemble them by element 15. Many other variants of

  are possible without departing from the framework defined by the resales

dications annexed.

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Claims (6)

  1. Device for blocking and making available a first portable information carrier using a second portable information carrier, and vice versa, characterized in that it comprises first means of reception and for recognizing said first information carrier, second means for receiving and recognizing said second information carrier and means for blocking one of the information carriers in its receiving means when the other is separated from its means reception and to make available at least one of said information carriers blocked beforehand in its reception means when the other   is disposed in its means of reception.   2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that as information carriers it includes keys (8, 9), as as means for receiving these keys it includes security blocks (2, 3) each formed by a barrel (6, 7) mounted in a fixed cylindrical element (4, 5) receiving this barrel, each of the keys (8, 9) cannot be inserted or removed from the safety block (2, 3) associated with it only when its barrel (6, 7) is in   a determined position or orientation with respect to its cylindrical element   fixed plate (4, 5), means being provided for connecting in rotation said barrels (6, 7) so that it cannot be in   same time in said positions or specific directions of intro   duction or extraction of said keys (8, 9).   3. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that said connecting means are formed by lever arms (16, 17) respectively linked in rotation to said barrels K6, 7), each of these lever arms forming a mound for the 'other   when it is in said determined orientation.   4. Device according to claim 3, characterized in that said lever arms are connected via a rod or a pusher (18).   5. Device according to any one of the claims.   tions 2 to 4, characterized in that said security blocks (2, 3) are in a housing (10) having access openings   (13, 14) to these security blocks (2, 3) for said keys (8, 9).   6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that said safety blocks (2, 3) are maintained and positioned relative to each other by the interior walls of the shoemaker.