DE1198418B - Telephone systems in hotels or the like with switching devices to prevent unauthorized use - Google Patents

Description

Telephone system in hotels or the like with switching devices for prevention unauthorized use The invention relates to a telephone system in hotels od. The like. With switching devices, which by switching or switching off the prevention unauthorized use of telephone stations in the guest rooms to serve.

The use of the aforementioned switching devices is particularly with regard to the extended possibilities which the country remote selection offers the user a telephone station offers, of increasing importance. There are now Telephone stations known in which with the help of a key via a in the station itself installed switching device a changeover or disconnection of the Station can be made. It is also known such switching devices to be designed as structural units, not in the station itself, but spatially can be accommodated away from her.

The arrangement of such switching devices in the telephone stations itself is to be perceived as disadvantageous for hotels or similar establishments, because on the one hand the guest cannot be expected with the help of a special key to switch or switch off each time the room is left, and because on the other hand when operating the switching device by the staff a large time load of the same must be accepted. With telephone systems in hotels or the like, in which the station separate switching devices for Apply, they are usually housed in the telephone exchange. This has the disadvantage that this point must be reported when the relevant Switchovers or disconnections have to be made.

The purpose of the present invention is to use the switching devices in hotels or similar existing facilities to be combined into one structural unit, that the necessary changes and /. or shutdowns without additional burden for the guest or the staff under simple control of the presence or absence of the guest-based conditions.

This purpose is achieved in that the switching devices on attached to the key board receiving the keys of the guest rooms and such trained and the recordings for the key of the telephone stations containing guest rooms are assigned in such a way that they can be stored or removed from the associated key must be actuated.

As is well known, every guest in hotels or similar companies is hand over your room key on the key board before leaving the house is filed. It is thus, taking advantage of this already existing fact, which allows the porter to check the presence and absence of the guest the measures taken according to the invention largely ensured that the necessary Placements made in accordance with the presence or absence of the guest will.

The compulsory actuation of the switching devices ensures that that the possibility of any errors in the operation of the switching devices is eliminated and that special manipulations are superfluous.

The assignment of a switching device can, for example, in the manner take place that when hanging the key on a hook-shaped hanger this is moved downwards by the weight of the key against the force of a spring and actuated the switching device during this movement. When removing the key the hanger is then reset by the spring, creating the required The station is automatically switched on or switched over. With common Key racks, in which the keys are inserted into a correspondingly trained recording are kept, there is the possibility of an inevitable Actuation of the switching device by depositing and removing the key in particular advantageous way. For example, the inclusion for the key can be a inevitably operated key or when it is inserted and withdrawn a similar switching element, such as. B. a toggle switch can be assigned. It it is also possible to use the key to operate the switching device to use it yourself, as is the case with the aforementioned example of a Key board with hanging device for the key is the case. In this Case can be the recording for the key to be kept by inserting, for example Assign one or two switching springs to the beard or shank of the key be pushed aside and actuate the corresponding contact spring sets.

For a compulsory actuation of the switching device when putting it down and when the key is removed, the one usually attached to it is particularly important Key-attached tags are suitable, which has the advantage over the key possesses that its shape can be chosen largely freely. So after a expedient development of the invention, the switching device by plugging or pulling out such a key fob operated. Should the actuation done by the trailer itself, this is advantageous with a suitable trained approach provided, for example, also, as in the preceding already described in connection with the key, the switching device through Push aside one or more switching springs that click on the appropriate Contact spring sets act, can actuate.

The invention is of course not limited to the examples mentioned limited. You can what the inevitable operation of the switching device when Dropping and removing the key is a concern for practically everyone in this regard occurring common types of storage can be adapted without difficult chains.

It is of course possible within the scope of the invention to use the actual Make switching via switching means; which are arranged separately from the key board are as long as the possibility of actuating these switching means from the key board remains guaranteed.

In the following the invention is based on the in the. Figures shown Embodiments explained in more detail. It shows F i g. 1 a part in one view a key board in a schematic representation, F i g. 2 a section through another key rack.

The key rack shown in FIG. 1 is denoted by 1. A number of recesses 2 are provided in the dieseln board for insertion serve the corresponding key, above each of the through these recesses The corresponding room number is given for recordings made. Each key adapter a switch button 3 is assigned to the one belonging to the room in question Station can be switched or switched off.

The in Fig. The key rack shown in FIG. 2 is denoted by 4. It in turn has receptacles 5 which are suitably designed for inserting the key. A contact spring set 6 is assigned to each of these receptacles. Each contact spring set includes two switching springs 7, which protrude with angled ends into the receptacles for the key. An inserted key 8 is shown in one of the receptacles shown for the keys. The key presses the Schaltder 7 apart and thereby actuates the associated contact spring assembly 6. The recesses 9 in the key board the evasive movement allow the switching springs. 7

Claims (4)

Claims: 1. Telephone system in hotels or the like with switching devices, the unauthorized use of in The telephone stations located in the guest rooms are used, d a d u r c h e -k e N e i h e t that the switching devices on which the keys of the guest rooms Receiving key board attached and designed and each the recordings assigned for the keys of the guest rooms containing the telephone stations are that they are inevitably actuated by filing or removing the associated key will. 2. Telephone system according to claim 1, characterized in that the inevitable The switching devices are actuated by the key itself. 3. Telephone system according to Claim 1, characterized in that the positive actuation the switching devices each by a usually located on the key Trailer takes place. 4. Telephone system according to claim 3, characterized in that the trailer has one of the inevitable actuation of the switching devices serving approach. Considered publications: German Patent Specifications No. 519 641, 95121. '' 7, 230662.