CH711614A2

CH711614A2 - Bicycle parking system with mechanical, vertical lifting support for parking in a suspended position.

Info

Publication number: CH711614A2
Application number: CH01453/15A
Authority: CH
Inventors: Suter Toni; Nägeli Roger
Original assignee: Abz Roger Nägeli; Klausner Velo Parksysteme Ag Toni Suter
Priority date: 2015-10-06
Filing date: 2015-10-06
Publication date: 2017-04-13

Abstract

The invention relates to a new device (1a-1g) which makes it possible, with purely mechanical construction and by utilizing the gravity, to lift bicycles from a horizontal initial position into a vertically suspended parking position and to keep them in this position and to release them again as required.

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] A veloparking system is a device which serves to park two-wheelers (bicycles, electric bicycles) in various ways in an organizationally efficient manner. Various systems are used for this purpose; Also the classic hanging device. This allows the parking of bicycles in vertical position. These hanging devices, usually characterized by a tightly screwed hook on the ceiling, are available in various designs and materials. Due to the development of two-wheelers with electronic pedal support and the necessary integration of heavy accumulators, these bicycles (e-bikes) also add massively weight. Often such bicycles weigh more than 25 kg. To lift such a bicycle with the front wheel into a suspension device, Often fails to achieve the necessary force on the part of cyclists. The bicycle is simply too heavy to lift it up and bring the front wheel into the bicycle suspension. For this reason, vertical suspension devices have also been established which facilitate the lifting of the bicycle in vertical parking position by means of simple pulley cables, electric cable motors or hydraulic devices. However, such solutions are impractical (cable pull), expensive (hydraulic) or also in reliability (electric motor) is not satisfactory. Which facilitate the lifting of the bicycle in vertical parking position by means of simple pulley cables, electric cable motors or hydraulic devices. However, such solutions are impractical (cable pull), expensive (hydraulic) or also in reliability (electric motor) is not satisfactory. Which facilitate the lifting of the bicycle in vertical parking position by means of simple pulley cables, electric cable motors or hydraulic devices. However, such solutions are impractical (cable pull), expensive (hydraulic) or also in reliability (electric motor) are not satisfactory.

[0002] This patent also does not alter the basic principle of parking the vehicle in a vertical position, but makes it possible to park in the suspension device without the need for force, regardless of the weight of the bicycle and purely on a mechanical solution which is robust and reliable.

PRIOR ART [0003] Solutions with cylinder cable pull, systems with hydraulic support and also systems with the support of electric motors in combination of a cable pull or the like are known. Also the raising of weights with corresponding counterweight is known.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION [0004] This invention describes a suspension device for parking bicycles in a vertical suspended position. On the basis of an exclusively mechanical construction and with the utilization of the gravity, it is possible to bring bicycles effortlessly into a hanging parking position without lifting and hanging the bicycle with the usual muscle strength. The purely mechanical design described here lifts bicycles effortlessly from a horizontal starting position into a vertical, suspended parking position independent of their overall weight, and also ensures that the bicycle can be brought back into the horizontal starting position without any muscle force.

The front wheel of the bicycle is attached to a hook of a movable carriage. This carriage, in a vertical movement, lifts the bicycle from its horizontal position on the front wheel until it is detached from the ground and is free in its fully vertical position on the hook and thus remains in its final parking position.

[0005] The vertical mechanical movement of this slide with the suspended bicycle is ensured by the fact that this carriage is fastened to one end of a belt and a counterweight adapted to the bicycle is attached to the other end of this belt. In addition, weights which support the belt are attached, which are arranged at a certain distance from one another. The belt (gear chain, carbon belt or the like) is guided over a deflection roller (gearwheel). When the bicycle is suspended in the sled by a few centimeters, the counterweight and the deflection pulley ensure that the process of the vertical lifting of the bicycle is started automatically. The steeper the bicycle is brought into its vertical position, The greater the total weight to be lifted. In order for this process to be continued without the need for additional effort on the part of cyclists, the counterweight must accordingly increase linearly. This is ensured by the fact that the steeper the bicycle is brought into its vertical position, the belt continuously brings more additional weights simultaneously over the deflection roller and thus the original main counterweight is dynamically influenced and thus the total weight increases.

[0006] Dynamic because the steeper the bicycle comes into its vertical parking position, and thus more and more weight must be pulled up, the more weight is fed to the belt via the deflecting roller. With this design and the arrangement of the additional counterweights on the belt, the entire main counterweight is dynamically increased.

The same process takes place in the opposite direction when the bicycle is to be returned from its suspended parking position into its horizontal initial situation: the bicycle owner must pull the bicycle downwards only a few centimeters until the first additional weight of the belt passes over the deflecting roller is. With this additional weight and the overall weight of the bicycle, the dynamic weight redistribution is started again and the bicycle is moved away from its parking position and is converted into its horizontal initial situation via the vertical downward movement. In this process, the additional weights are automatically guided over the deflection roller again and the main counterweight is relieved.

Claims

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT [0008] FIG. 1 shows the construction with a bicycle in a horizontal initial situation. The construction is illustrated here with the inner life (without cover panel). The following parts can be seen: 1a Rotating roller of the belt drive 1b Mounting plate for wall mounting 1c Belt / belt drive (gear chain, carbon belt or the like) with additional weights fixed to the belt at a fixed distance 1d Carriage attached to belt 1e Main counterweight (individual Adjustable to the necessary weight of the bicycle) attached to the belt 1f hook for hanging from the front wheel of the bicycle 1g securing for holding the carriage at the starting position of the bicycle The front part of the bicycle is slightly raised by the bicycle owner, So that it can suspend the front wheel on the hook (1f). The fuse (1g) is released by light pressure with the front wheel on the carriage (1d), thereby releasing the carriage (1d). The carriage is attached to the belt (1c) to which the main weight (1e) hangs. The belt is passed over a deflection wheel (1a). The main counterweight is pulled vertically downwards by the gravity and the carriage (1d) with the bicycle is pulled up with the belt drive (1c). The higher the slide is pulled up by the counterweight, the steeper the vertical position of the bicycle becomes, and the load to be lifted becomes heavier. The additional weights attached to the belt are guided over the circulating roller thereby increasing the total weight of the main counterweight (1e) dynamically. As soon as the carriage (1d) has reached its uppermost position with the bicycle hanging on the hook (1f), the main counterweight (1e) and the additional weights on the belt (1c) hold the bicycle in its vertically suspended parking position. [0010] To release the bicycle from its vertical parking position (FIG. 2), the bicycle owner must pull the bicycle slightly downwards until the first additional weight of the belt is guided over the deflecting roller. From this position, the bicycle is gently guided downwards due to its own weight and the support of the transfer of the additional weights on the belt via the circulating roller. This restores the bicycle to its horizontal starting position. As soon as the carriage (1d) is down again, the fuse (1g) engages and the bicycle The front wheel can be removed from the hook (1f). claims

1. A device, characterized in that with the utilization of the gravitational force and the interplay of fixed and flexible counterweights by means of a deflecting roller as well as a belt drive, bicycles can be pulled up vertically without force exertion and holding them in their vertically suspended parking position and also being able to be lowered again without force exertion.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that several additional counterweights on a belt leading over a deflecting roller can dynamically alter a main counterweight dynamically in its overall weight - both an increase and an unloading.