[go: up one dir, main page]

WO1983000578A1 - Armoire - Google Patents

Armoire Download PDF

Info

Publication number
WO1983000578A1
WO1983000578A1 PCT/SE1982/000251 SE8200251W WO8300578A1 WO 1983000578 A1 WO1983000578 A1 WO 1983000578A1 SE 8200251 W SE8200251 W SE 8200251W WO 8300578 A1 WO8300578 A1 WO 8300578A1
Authority
WO
WIPO (PCT)
Prior art keywords
compartment
processing unit
occupied
openings
opening
Prior art date
Application number
PCT/SE1982/000251
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Locks Sweden Ab Electronic
Original Assignee
Ohlsson, Barth, Douglas
AKESSON, Sten, Lars, Olof
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Ohlsson, Barth, Douglas, AKESSON, Sten, Lars, Olof filed Critical Ohlsson, Barth, Douglas
Priority to DE8282902271T priority Critical patent/DE3274311D1/de
Publication of WO1983000578A1 publication Critical patent/WO1983000578A1/fr

Links

Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/10—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property
    • G07F17/12—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned

Definitions

  • This invention relates to a locker provided with a compartment system including several movable compartments placed in a closed casing provided with at least one stationary opening, in front of which at control the movable compartments are placeable one at a time for insertion of luggage to be stored or for taking back stored luggage.
  • a compartment When a compartment is placed in front of the opening, the other compartments are hidden in the locker, so that entrance to a compartment for others than service staff only can be made through said opening.
  • a locker of this kind is described in the UK application No 2 015 326.
  • This kind of locker is often designed as wardrobes placed in cloakrooms in public institutions, such as in hospitals, theatres etc., in order to give a safe place for people to hang up one's things and to have them protected against theft, possible damage, etc., because they are hidden.
  • the locker may also comprise several compartment system sections located above one an other. This kind of lockers are suitable to be used for temporary safe-keeping of goods in department stores, railway stations or the like.
  • a very useful locker of this kind has several rotatable compartment system sections located above one another within a casing having as many openings as the number of sections placed in a vertical row.
  • the width and height of the openings are adapted to the width and height of the front side of the compartments.
  • a control panel having a coin slot is provided at the side of the opening or the vertical row of openings.
  • a person has hang up his things or inserted some goods he wants to have stored in a compartment in front of an opening, he insert the payment into the coin slot.
  • a card is delivered. This card has marks on it, which designate the compartment in question. The marks may for instance be punched holes or magnetic information recorded on a magnetic tape provided on the card.
  • the compartment system or the compartment system section including the compartment just occupied is rotated, so that this compartment disappears into the casing and a new, empty compartment is placed in front of the opening. Thus, goods loaded in occupied compartments are hidden in the casing.
  • the compartment system rotates then so that the compartment corresponding to the marks on the card is rotated to come in front of the opening.
  • the locker in accordance with the invention has a processing . unit provided with a memory, in which the processing unit stores a code for each compartment, which code includes information regarding if the compartment is occupied or not, and a driving mechanism for the compartment system controlled by the processing unit.
  • the processing unit marks this in the memory, searches in the memory after an unoccupied compartment, which fulfills predetermined preference demands and which has the shortest path way to the opening or the openings and controls the driving mechanism to place the found compartment in front of an opening.
  • the openings are provided with closeable doors controllable by the processing unit. Even if unoccupied compartments in more than one of the compartment system sections is placed behind the openings only one at the time of the doors of the openings is opened. When the compartment behind the open door has become occupied, the processing unit gives preference to one of the other compartment system sections to have the door open in front of an unoccupied compartment.
  • the processing unit is controlling the driving mechanism for the compartment system so that, after that an unoccupied compartment has become occupied, as few occupied compartments as possible will be located in front of an opening behind a closed door.
  • FIG. 1 shows a prespective view of a first embodiment of a locker having the features in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the control system for the locker in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a second embodiment of a locker having the features in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 1 a locker is shown, which has the function of a wardrobe and which comprises a rotating compartment system 1, hereinafter referred to as a rotor.
  • the rotor comprises a cylindrical unit provided with a floor 2 and a roof 3 and having an open envelope surface.
  • the rotor is provided with a central bearer 4, which is rotatably journaled in bearings at least in its lower end.
  • the rotor is divided in vertically elongated compartments by aid of walls 5 extended vertically between the floor and the roof and radially between the bearer 4 and the periphery of the rotor.
  • a shelf 3" is shown in the upper part of each compartment.
  • the rotor 1 is placed in a casing 6, which is closed and has an opening 7 in one of its side walls.
  • the height and the width of the opening 7 correspond substatially to the height and the width of every compartment at the periphery of the rotor 1.
  • a compartment is shown in front of the opening 7.
  • a control panel 8 is located and provided with a coin slot, a card slot and some operating keys for a presumptive user of the compartment system to press upon.
  • another control panel 9 is located at the side of the panel 8 .
  • the panel 9 is provided with operating elements for manual operation of the rotor.
  • the panel 9 is normally hidden behind a locked door 10 and is only intended to be used by service staff. In the corner down at the right a driving motor 11 having an axis 12 is shown.
  • the rotation of the asis 12 is transmitted via the gear box 13 to a vertical axis provided with teeth (not shown).
  • the bearer 4 is also provided with teeth (not shown) on a part of it located under the floor of the rotor 1.
  • a chain is placed around the part of the bearer provided with teeth and the vertical axis.
  • the rotor is rotated when the motor axis 12 is rotating.
  • Other types of driving mechanisms are usable as well.
  • the control electronics are provided in a housing 14 near the motor 11. It is to be noted that FIG. 1 represents a pricipal drawing and that the design and localisation of the panels 8, 9, the motor 11 and the housing 14 can vary widely.
  • FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the control device of the locker.
  • the indicator 15, 16 When a person hangs up his things in the empty compartment in front of the opening 7 the indicator 15, 16 is activated.
  • the activation can also be made in another way, for instance may the person presses a key on the panel 8. In FIG. 2 this is indicated by the activation unit 18.
  • a signal is fed from the unit to a processing unit 19, which preferably is a micro computer, and also to a first timing circuit 20.
  • the processing unit activates control elements 21 for the locker, such as overload protection or the like.
  • the activation time of the timing circuit 20 is so long that the control elements have time to come into their operational mode within this time.
  • the circuit 20 feds a trigger signal to a second timing circuit 22 and also to the processing unit 19, which order a lightening of an indication 23, which for instance may have the text "INSERT PAYMENT" at the side of the coin slot.
  • the second timing circuit 22 feeds a "1"-signal to one of the inputs of and AND-gate 24 during its activation time.
  • a signal is also fed from the timing circuit 22 to the processing unit 19, which keeps the compartment system control elements 21 activated during the activation time of the timing circuit 22.
  • these elements 21 are activated only when someone intends to use the locker.
  • the two timing circuits 20, 22 and the ANDgate 24 may be an integral part of the processing unit 19, especially if the unit is a microcomputer. They may then be parts of the computor program.
  • the activation time of the timing circuit 22 is chosen to be so long that a person shall have the time to pick up money after having hang his things up.
  • a suitable time is ca. 40 seconds. If the payment is inserted within this time a signal from the AND-gate 24 is fed to the unit 19. The unit feeds a signal to the payment unit 45 indicating that the payment is accepted and a signal to a driving unit 25, which first controls that the door 26 in front of the compartment is closed and thereafter controls the motor 11 to rotate the rotor 1, so that a new unoccupied compartment is placed in front of the opening 7.
  • the processing unit 19 makes a random code for the compartment just occupied. This code is written into a memory 27. Also, the code is fed to a unit 28, which puts marks on a storage card or the like. Further on, when the person wants his things back, he puts his card in a card slot. The code on the card is read by a card reader 30 and is fed to the unit 19. The unit 1 9 searches in the memory after the compartment having this code and controls the driving unit 25 to control the motor 11 to rotate the rotor so that the compartment in question will be placed in front of the opening 7.
  • a special bit is recerved to indicate whether the compartment is occupied or not, i.e. a so called flag is set if the compartment is occupied.
  • the flag in the memory is removed, i.e. the bit for occupation indication is made to a "0".
  • the service staff it is possible for the service staff to indicate a compartment as occupied from the panel 9 and to set a flag for a particular compartment by manual control. It is also possible to remove the flags in the memory for the compartments from the panel 9.
  • the processing unit 19 searches in the memory 27 after an compartment without a flag set having as short path way to the opening 7 as possible and controls via the driving unit 25 the motor 11 to turn the rotor 1 the shortest way in order to place the compartment in question in front of to the opening 7.
  • the rotor is turnable in both directions.
  • FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment of a locker in accordance with the invention.
  • this locker three compartment section systems are placed one on top of the other. Two cases are thinkable.
  • the systems can all be seated on the same rotor, in which case solid partitions are provided between adjacent compartments belonging to different systems, or else the systems are placed in several separately turnable rotors placed on top of each other.
  • FIG. 3 also another embodiment of the control panel 25 is shown. It is mounted recessed in a locked door 36 located at the side of the openings 34 placed in a vertical row in the casing 37. Behind the door the service panel is located (not shown). As is shown in FIG. 3 the openings are provided with sliding doors 38, 39, 40, of which all 38, 39 are closed except one 40. In order to obtain the best possible security against theft and damages it is important that as many as possible of the compartments behind the openings are unoccupied. This depends upon that if someone wishes to break into the locker to get hold of the content, he first choses to try to open one of the closed doors 38 and 39. It is true that an alarm is triggered on at every form of damage done to the locker, but it can take some time for the service staff to reach it. A thief can have time enough to clear out a compartment and to disappear before anyone comes to the locker.
  • the processing unit 19 operates such that, after that a compartment has been occupied, it first makes a search through the memory 27 after a position, in which all compartments placed on top of each other are unoccupied. If such a position cannot be found, it searches through the memory 27 after the position where all the compartments except one is occupied and having the shortest path way to the vertical opening row etc. It is to be noted that the rotor is turned every time after that a compartment has been occupied, even if the most favourable position is the one that is present behind the opening row when a compartment has been occupied. Therefore, sometimes the rotor may be rotated a full turn after that a compartment has been occupied.
  • the processing unit 19 writes the randomized code for this compartment into the memory 27, controls the driving device for the door in front of the opening for this section to close the door, controls the driving device for the door in front of an unoccupied compartment above or below the occupied compartment to open the door and controls the driving mechanism for the latest occupied compartment to drive the rotor for this compartment system section, so that an unoccupied compartment comes in front of the opening, which now has a closed door.

Landscapes

  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Lock And Its Accessories (AREA)

Abstract

Armoire comprenant un système de compartiments possédant plusieurs compartiments mobiles et une enveloppe disposée autour du système. L'enveloppe possède au moins une ouverture (40), devant laquelle s'arrêtent les compartiments mobiles de manière à permettre l'introduction des bagages en consigne ou le retrait des bagages stockés. L'armoire est pourvue d'une unité de traitement (19) munie d'une mémoire (27). L'unité de traitement stocke un code en mémoire pour chaque compartiment comprenant des informations sur l'occupation éventuelle d'un compartiment. L'unité de traitement commande un mécanisme d'entraînement (11) pour le système. Lorsqu'un des compartiments est occupé, l'unité de traitement (19) change les informations en mémoire du mode non occupé au mode occupé, cherche en mémoire un compartiment possédant un mode non occupé, qui satisfait des critères de préférence prédéterminés et qui est séparé par le chemin le plus court de l'ouverture ou ouvertures, et commande le mécanisme d'entraînement (11) de manière à placer ce compartiment devant l'ouverture ou une des ouvertures.
PCT/SE1982/000251 1981-08-05 1982-07-29 Armoire WO1983000578A1 (fr)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DE8282902271T DE3274311D1 (en) 1982-07-29 1982-07-29 A locker

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
SE8104687-2810805 1981-08-05
EP82902271A EP0085069B1 (fr) 1982-07-29 1982-07-29 Armoire

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
WO1983000578A1 true WO1983000578A1 (fr) 1983-02-17

Family

ID=8190205

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
PCT/SE1982/000251 WO1983000578A1 (fr) 1981-08-05 1982-07-29 Armoire

Country Status (2)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0085069B1 (fr)
WO (1) WO1983000578A1 (fr)

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2563987A1 (fr) * 1984-05-10 1985-11-15 Lille Sa Distr Gde Brasserie Boite a puce telematique
FR2628870A1 (fr) * 1988-03-21 1989-09-22 Mors Systeme de rangement a casiers adjacents commandes par un dispositif a microprocesseur
FR2657446A1 (fr) * 1990-01-24 1991-07-26 Delatour Pierre Procede et dispositif destine a controler et a permettre l'acces a un site ou a un service.
GB2437967A (en) * 2006-05-13 2007-11-14 Bybox Holdings Ltd Automated lockerbank
ES2530211A1 (es) * 2014-06-26 2015-02-27 Benito Manuel Ortiz Padilla Sistema automatizado para guardar objetos personales
ITUB20153030A1 (it) * 2015-08-10 2017-02-10 Bm S P A Apparato per lo stoccaggio temporaneo di oggetti.

Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH310773A (de) * 1953-06-29 1955-11-15 Bruggen Burchard V D Registraturanlage.
DE1918700A1 (de) * 1969-04-12 1970-10-29 Heinrich Loechner Automat zur verschlossenen Aufbewahrung von Kleidungsstuecken (Garderobe) und sonstigen Gegenstaenden
GB2015326A (en) * 1977-12-29 1979-09-12 Olsson B D Deposit system
DE2908128A1 (de) * 1977-01-08 1980-03-20 Tele Alarm Nachrichtentech Schliessfachanlage mit zentraler bedienungseinheit

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH310773A (de) * 1953-06-29 1955-11-15 Bruggen Burchard V D Registraturanlage.
DE1918700A1 (de) * 1969-04-12 1970-10-29 Heinrich Loechner Automat zur verschlossenen Aufbewahrung von Kleidungsstuecken (Garderobe) und sonstigen Gegenstaenden
DE2908128A1 (de) * 1977-01-08 1980-03-20 Tele Alarm Nachrichtentech Schliessfachanlage mit zentraler bedienungseinheit
US4204635A (en) * 1977-01-08 1980-05-27 Tele-Alarm, Nachrichtentechnische Gerate GmbH, Herstellungs-und Vertriebsgesellschaft & Co. KG Locker installation with a central control unit
GB2015326A (en) * 1977-12-29 1979-09-12 Olsson B D Deposit system

Non-Patent Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Title
"Ny teknik", No 13, 30 March 1978, "Mikrodator laser forvaringsbox med sifferkod". *

Cited By (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2563987A1 (fr) * 1984-05-10 1985-11-15 Lille Sa Distr Gde Brasserie Boite a puce telematique
FR2628870A1 (fr) * 1988-03-21 1989-09-22 Mors Systeme de rangement a casiers adjacents commandes par un dispositif a microprocesseur
EP0334726A1 (fr) * 1988-03-21 1989-09-27 Mors Système de rangement à casiers adjacents commandés par un dispositif à microprocesseur
US5126732A (en) * 1988-03-21 1992-06-30 Mors Storage system with adjacent bins controlled by a microprocessor device
FR2657446A1 (fr) * 1990-01-24 1991-07-26 Delatour Pierre Procede et dispositif destine a controler et a permettre l'acces a un site ou a un service.
EP0443962A1 (fr) * 1990-01-24 1991-08-28 Pierre Delatour Procédé et dispositif destiné à contrôler et à permettre l'accès à un site ou à un service
GB2437967A (en) * 2006-05-13 2007-11-14 Bybox Holdings Ltd Automated lockerbank
ES2530211A1 (es) * 2014-06-26 2015-02-27 Benito Manuel Ortiz Padilla Sistema automatizado para guardar objetos personales
ITUB20153030A1 (it) * 2015-08-10 2017-02-10 Bm S P A Apparato per lo stoccaggio temporaneo di oggetti.
EP3131071A1 (fr) * 2015-08-10 2017-02-15 BM S.p.A. Appareil pour le stockage temporaire d'objets

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
EP0085069B1 (fr) 1986-11-12
EP0085069A1 (fr) 1983-08-10

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US5126732A (en) Storage system with adjacent bins controlled by a microprocessor device
US4471905A (en) Fare collection apparatus having improved security
US5164718A (en) Separate lock and unlock codes for a security box
US6587031B1 (en) Secure storage of high value items
US5607102A (en) Tamper-resistant cash box
WO2013156956A1 (fr) Poste de chargement de dispositif portable
EP0085069B1 (fr) Armoire
US20020007771A1 (en) Security system
CA2388009A1 (fr) Recipient pour objets de valeur
US4201333A (en) Fare collection apparatus
EP0670007B1 (fr) Coffre-fort a compartiments
JPS61242287A (ja) 共用ロツカ−システム
US20060037372A1 (en) Door lock
US4337987A (en) Trapped-key security unit
US4843853A (en) Tamperproof lock for vending machines
JPS61183582A (ja) キ−管理装置
WO2000071848A1 (fr) Coffre-fort
JP2000120310A (ja) ロッカー
KR100304069B1 (ko) 자동판매기의자물쇠장치
JP2826732B2 (ja) ロッカー
JPH0232677B2 (ja) Haitatsushimonotonojuryobotsukusu
JPH02280712A (ja) 自動開閉郵便ボックス
JP2516359Y2 (ja) 自動販売機
WO1998038604A1 (fr) Dispositif destine a une caisse enregistreuse
JPH0727960Y2 (ja) スロットマシン等のキー装置

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
AK Designated states

Designated state(s): JP US

AL Designated countries for regional patents

Designated state(s): AT BE CH DE FR GB LU NL SE

WWE Wipo information: entry into national phase

Ref document number: 1982902271

Country of ref document: EP

WWP Wipo information: published in national office

Ref document number: 1982902271

Country of ref document: EP

WWG Wipo information: grant in national office

Ref document number: 1982902271

Country of ref document: EP