CN108222583B - Tree-shaped spiral bicycle garage - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a tree-shaped spiral bicycle garage which mainly comprises a first-layer parking device, a central rotating mechanism and a second-layer parking device. The first-layer parking device and the second-layer parking device are connected through the central rotating mechanism, so that the rotation of the second-layer parking device and the dispatching of the upper and lower layers of bicycles are realized. The parking device adopts the balancer and the fixed pulley to balance the gravity of the bicycle and the frame, so that a user can conveniently erect the bicycle and lift the frame, and the three-point fixing mechanism on the parking device prevents the bicycle from falling. The frame is placed around the central shaft in a spiral mode, the bicycle handle is ingeniously and naturally staggered, and the space is fully utilized. The bicycle parking device is simple and compact in structure, changes the existing bicycle parking mode, can realize the vertical storage and the fetching of bicycles with different specifications and sizes on an upper layer and a lower layer, has the characteristics of high space utilization rate, safety, no maintenance and the like, and is suitable for being applied and popularized in districts such as communities, schools and the like.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of bicycle parking equipment, relates to a bicycle parking device, and particularly relates to a tree-shaped spiral bicycle garage.
Background
Under the epoch background of advocating low carbon environmental protection, green trip, the bicycle trade development is rapid, and the increase of its quantity has brought a series of parking problems, especially to the great places of bicycle use amount such as school, district, parks and lacks the standard management, parks the space not enough to take place the bicycle easily and damage, phenomenons such as stolen. The existing parking device has various defects, such as large occupied area of the traditional parallel parking frames, limited workshop distance of the bicycle in a placement mode and inflexible storage and taking; the underground parking lot in Japan occupies a large area and is not suitable for the situation of China.
At present, for the research of bicycle parking, the bicycle is started earlier abroad, has a plurality of good results, and is developed in recent years at home. Compared with most of the existing bicycle parking products at home and abroad, the bicycle parking device has the following problems: space utilization is low, and it is hard to deposit and withdraw the car expense time, and the user uses the convenience poor.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to develop a spiral tree-shaped stereo bicycle garage aiming at the defects of the existing bicycle parking technology. The invention takes the reduction of the occupied area of the bicycle as a core, and obtains the parking order of the bicycle required to be standardized through research, namely, the construction of the garage is developed from the aspects of multi-layer parking, staggered handle, vertical parking and the like.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
the utility model provides a treelike spiral bicycle garage which characterized in that: the lifting guide rail groove is formed in the first layer of support, and can be butted with the pulling frames on the second layer of support; the parking frame comprises an L-shaped support, an arc-shaped groove track and a hooking sliding block arranged in the arc-shaped groove track, the arc-shaped groove track is arranged on the inner side of the L-shaped support, a second balancer is arranged in the L-shaped support, a pull rope of the second balancer is connected with the hooking sliding block after bypassing a fixed pulley arranged at the top of the arc-shaped groove track, and an L-shaped lock pin capable of being used for hooking a front wheel of a bicycle is arranged on the hooking sliding block.
As an improvement, the second layer of support is arranged on the central shaft through a ball bearing, and a universal ball bearing is arranged on the contact surface of the bottom of the second layer of support and the top of the first layer of support.
As an improvement, the bottom of an L-shaped support of the parking frame on the second layer of support is provided with a bolt, and the bottom of the drawing frame and the bottom of the lifting guide rail groove are provided with jacks matched with the bolt.
As an improvement, the bolt is also provided with a handle which can be used for pulling by hand.
As an improvement, the top of the arc groove track is provided with a fixed baffle plate for limiting the movement limit of the front wheel of the bicycle.
As an improvement, the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track is provided with a locking device for locking the hooking sliding block.
As an improvement, the locking device comprises a lock tongue, a bottom plate and a pedal, the lock tongue is installed at the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track through a lock tongue box, a lock hole corresponding to the lock tongue is formed in the hooking sliding block, the bottom of the lock tongue is connected with one end of the pedal through a brake cable, the middle of the pedal is hinged to the bottom plate through a pin shaft, the bottom plate is fixed to the bottom of the parking frame, a spring is arranged at the bottom of the lock tongue to enable the lock tongue to be kept in an ejecting state, the pedal is stepped by feet, the pedal rotates.
As an improvement, the jiffy stands on the first layer of support and the second layer of support form a certain included angle with the radial direction of the central shaft.
As an improvement, the radial included angle range of the jiffy stand and the central shaft is 0-30 degrees.
As an improvement, the top of the second layer of support is provided with a circular arc rain-proof ceiling.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention discloses a spiral tree-shaped stereo bicycle garage. The parking order of the bicycle needs to be standardized through research, namely the garage is constructed in the aspects of multi-layer parking, staggered handles, vertical parking and the like, so that the occupied area of the bicycle can be greatly reduced, and the space is saved so as to adapt to the problem of increasing space requirements of cities. The parking device adopts the balancer and the fixed pulley to balance the gravity of the bicycle and the frame, so that a user can conveniently erect the bicycle and lift the frame, and the three-point fixing mechanism on the parking device prevents the bicycle from falling. The frame is placed around the central shaft in a spiral mode, the bicycle handle is ingeniously and naturally staggered, and the space is fully utilized. The bicycle parking device is simple and compact in structure, changes the existing bicycle parking mode, can realize the vertical storage and the fetching of bicycles with different specifications and sizes on an upper layer and a lower layer, has the characteristics of high space utilization rate, safety, no maintenance and the like, and is suitable for being applied and popularized in districts such as communities, schools and the like.
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FIG. 1 is a front view of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the parking frame of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the locking device of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the assembly of the first layer of brackets and the second layer of brackets.
Fig. 5 is a drawing showing the assembling relationship between the drawer frame and the jiffy stand on the second-layer bracket.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a hook slider structure.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view showing the parking frames arranged at a certain angle with the radial direction of the central shaft.
FIG. 8 is a top view of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a schematic view of a bicycle parked on a parking stand.
1-base, 2-first layer bracket, 3-central shaft, 4-second layer bracket, 5-drawing frame, 6-parking frame, 7-first balancer, 8-lifting guide rail groove, 9-L type bracket, 10-arc groove rail, 11-locking device, 12-hooking sliding block, 13-second balancer, 14-fixed pulley, 15-L type lock pin, 16-ball bearing, 17-universal ball bearing, 18-bolt, 19-fixed baffle, 20-bolt, 21-bottom plate, 22-pedal, 23-brake cable, 24-bolt box, 25-rain-proof ceiling and 26-bicycle.
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The invention is illustrated below with reference to the accompanying drawings, as shown in fig. 1 to 9, a tree-shaped spiral bicycle garage comprises a base 1, a first layer of supports 2, a central shaft 3 and a second layer of supports 4, wherein the first layer of supports 2 is fixedly arranged on the base 1, the central shaft 3 is fixedly arranged at the center of the base 1, the second layer of supports 4 is freely rotatably arranged on the central shaft 3 above the first layer of supports 2, the second layer of supports 4 and the central shaft 3 form a central rotating mechanism, a plurality of vertical pull frames 5 are arranged around the second layer of supports 4, a parking frame 6 for hanging bicycles is arranged in each pull frame 5 through a guide rail slider mechanism, the top of each pull frame 5 is connected with the top of the parking frame 6 in the pull frame through a first balancer 7, the second layer of supports 4, the pull frames 5 and the parking frames 6 form a second layer of parking device, a plurality of vertical jiffy stands 6 for hanging bicycles are arranged and installed on the periphery of the first layer of support 2, a lifting guide rail groove 8 which can be in butt joint with the drawing frame 5 on the second layer of support 4 is also arranged on the first layer of support 2, and the first layer of support 2 and the jiffy stands 6 fixed on the first layer of support form a layer of parking device; the parking frame 6 comprises an L-shaped support 9, an arc-shaped groove track 10 and a hooking sliding block 12 which is installed in the arc-shaped groove track 10 and can slide freely, the arc-shaped groove track 10 is installed on the inner side of the L-shaped support 9, a second balancer 13 is arranged in the L-shaped support 9, a pull rope of the second balancer 13 is connected with the hooking sliding block 12 after bypassing a fixed pulley 14 arranged at the top of the arc-shaped groove track 10, an L-shaped lock pin 15 which can be used for hooking a front wheel of the bicycle is arranged on the hooking sliding block 12, one end of the L-shaped lock pin 15 is hinged to the hooking sliding block 12, and the front wheel of the bicycle can be hooked or loosened by rotating the L-shaped lock pin 15.
As shown in fig. 4, the second layer support 4 is mounted on the central shaft 3 through a ball bearing 16, a universal ball bearing 17 for supporting the second layer support 4 is arranged at the top of the first layer support 2, a bolt 18 is arranged at the bottom of an L-shaped support 9 of the parking frame 6 on the second layer support 4, specifically, a guide hole is arranged at the bottom of the L-shaped support 9, the bolt 18 is arranged in the guide hole, and can freely slide in the guide hole through a hand pull, jacks matched with the bolt 18 are arranged at the bottom of the pull frame 5 and the bottom of the lifting guide rail groove 8, and the bolt 18 is further provided with a handle for the hand pull. Through the matching of the bolt 18 and the jack, the parking frame 6 on the second layer bracket 4 can stay in the drawing frame 5 to keep a parking state, and can also stay in the lifting guide rail groove 8 to keep a bicycle taking and placing state.
As a better embodiment, the top of the arc-shaped groove track 10 is provided with a fixed baffle 19 which limits the upward movement limit of the front wheel of the bicycle.
As shown in fig. 3, as a more preferred embodiment, a locking device 11 for locking and hooking the sliding block 12 is disposed at the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track 10, the locking device 11 includes a locking tongue 20, a bottom plate 21 and a pedal 22, the locking tongue 20 is mounted at the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track 10 through a locking tongue box 24, a locking hole corresponding to the locking tongue 20 is disposed on the hooking sliding block 12, the bottom of the locking tongue 20 is connected with one end of a pedal 22 through a braking cable 23, the middle of the pedal 22 is hinged to the bottom plate 21 through a pin shaft, the bottom plate 21 is fixed at the bottom of the parking frame 6, the locking tongue 20 is kept in an ejected state by a spring disposed at the bottom of the locking tongue 20, the pedal 22 is stepped by a foot, the pedal.
As a more preferable embodiment, as shown in fig. 7 and 8, the jiffy stands 6 on the first-layer support 2 and the second-layer support 4 are radially arranged at a certain included angle with the central axis 3, so as to reduce the space occupied by the whole device and achieve the purpose of saving space to the maximum extent, in this embodiment, the included angle between the jiffy stands 6 and the central axis 3 is 0-30 degrees.
As a more preferable embodiment, the top of the second layer of brackets is provided with a circular arc rain-sheltering ceiling.
In the embodiment of the invention, the first balancer 7 and the second balancer 13 are balancers in the prior art, the load range of the balancers is larger than the weight of a single bicycle, the bicycle can be lifted or descended by lightly pushing or pulling the bicycle with hands through the balancers, the same is true of the jiffy stand on the second-layer bracket 4, and the load range of the first balancer is larger than the weight of the jiffy stand plus the weight of the single bicycle.
When the parking device is used, as shown in fig. 1, 4 and 5, aiming at a parking frame 6 on a first layer bracket 2, a hooking sliding block 12 is pulled down from the top of an arc-shaped groove track 10 and is locked by utilizing the automatic rebounding action of a lock tongue 20, the hooking sliding block 12 can be pulled down easily under the gravity action of a second balancer 13 and the hooking sliding block 12, then a bicycle is pushed, an L-shaped lock pin 15 on the hooking sliding block 12 is turned over to hook the front wheel of the bicycle, a pedal 22 is stepped on by feet, the lock tongue 20 is pulled back to unlock, the bicycle and the hooking sliding block 12 are pushed by hands slightly, the bicycle moves upwards along the arc-shaped groove track 10 under the action of the second balancer 13 until a limit baffle is touched, parking action is finished, and the vehicle taking action is just opposite; aiming at a parking frame 6 on a second layer of support 4, firstly rotating the second layer of support 4 until a drawing frame 5 and the parking frame 6 which need to stop and take a vehicle align with a lifting guide rail groove 8 on a first layer of support 2, pulling a handle of a bolt 18 at the bottom of the parking frame 6 by hand to release relative position locking between the parking frame 6 and the drawing frame 5, then pulling the parking frame 6 downwards by hand, sliding the parking frame 6 to the bottom along the lifting guide rail groove 8 under the action of a first balancer 7, then pushing the handle of the bolt 18 by hand to lock the relative position between the parking frame 6 and the lifting guide rail groove 8, then taking and placing the bicycle according to the mode above the first layer of parking frame 6, pulling out the bolt 18 after finishing taking and placing, slightly pushing the parking frame 6 by hand, slowly lifting the parking frame 6 under the action of the first balancer 7 until the parking frame 6 touches the top of the drawing frame 5 to stop, and pushing the bolt 18 by hand to ensure that the parking frame 6 and the corresponding drawing frame 5 keep relative position locking, the whole bicycle taking and placing process is completed.
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1. The utility model provides a treelike spiral bicycle garage which characterized in that: the lifting guide rail groove is formed in the first layer of support, and can be butted with the pulling frames on the second layer of support; the parking frame comprises an L-shaped support, an arc-shaped groove track and a hooking sliding block arranged in the arc-shaped groove track, the arc-shaped groove track is arranged on the inner side of the L-shaped support, a second balancer is arranged in the L-shaped support, a pull rope of the second balancer bypasses a fixed pulley arranged at the top of the arc-shaped groove track and then is connected with the hooking sliding block, and an L-shaped lock pin capable of being used for hooking a front wheel of a bicycle is arranged on the hooking sliding block; the bottom of the L-shaped support of the parking frame on the second layer of support is provided with a bolt, and the bottom of the drawing frame and the bottom of the lifting guide rail groove are provided with jacks matched with the bolt.
2. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 1, wherein: the second layer of support is installed on the center pin through ball bearing, is equipped with universal ball bearing on second layer of support bottom and the first layer of support top contact surface.
3. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 1, wherein: the bolt is also provided with a handle which can be used for pulling by hand.
4. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 1, wherein: and a fixed baffle plate for limiting the movement limit of the front wheel of the bicycle is arranged at the top of the arc-shaped groove track.
5. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 4, wherein: and a locking device for locking the hooking sliding block is arranged at the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track.
6. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 5, wherein: the locking device comprises a lock tongue, a bottom plate and a pedal, the lock tongue is installed at the bottom of the arc-shaped groove track through a lock tongue box, a lock hole corresponding to the lock tongue is formed in a hooking sliding block, the bottom of the lock tongue is connected with one end of the pedal through a brake cable, the middle of the pedal is hinged to the bottom plate through a hinge pin, the bottom plate is fixed to the bottom of the parking frame, a spring is arranged at the bottom of the lock tongue to enable the lock tongue to be kept in an ejecting state, the pedal is stepped by feet, the pedal rotates to.
7. The spiral tree-like bicycle garage of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein: the jiffy stands on the first layer of support and the second layer of support all radially form certain contained angle with the center pin.
8. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 7, wherein: the radial included angle range of the jiffy stand and the central shaft is 0-30 degrees.
9. The tree-like spiral bicycle garage of claim 7, wherein: and a circular arc rain-proof ceiling is arranged at the top of the second layer of support.
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