Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B73/00—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices
  • E05B73/0005—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices using chains, cables or the like
  • E05B73/0011—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices using chains, cables or the like with retraction of the flexible element for storage
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B73/00—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices
  • E05B73/0005—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices using chains, cables or the like
• • 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

Definitions

• the present invention relates to an automatic locker device for packages and in particular for hand luggage.
• Automatic lockers are known which are used in particular in stations, for temporarily storing travelers' luggage. These lockers usually consist of a section of safes which are each closed by a door-equipped with means allowing the user to ensure its locking and unlocking after having regulated a user fee
• the shape and size of these safes have been determined so that they can admit most of the hand luggage used by travelers, it is on the one hand particularly rare that these fill a safe in its entire volume and, on the other hand, there is always luggage, which, because of their shape and / or their dimensions, cannot take place in these chests This is why these chests because of a part of the lost space which it are imposed and on the other hand of their non universality, cannot be used in places, such as in particular the platforms of the trains, or the storage volume must be used in its entirety
• the object of the present invention is to propose a simple and economical security deposit system which makes it possible to ensure the security of luggage of almost any shape and size, without significant loss of space.
• the deposit device according to the present invention is particularly advantageous in luggage storage places such as passenger cars, trams, buses, but also in various places such as libraries, performance halls, meeting rooms, etc.
• the present inven ⁇ on thus relates to an automatic deposit device for packages, and in particular for hand luggage, of the type comprising at least one module comprising locking-unlocking means and a connecting element intended to pass through at least one element of the luggage, one end of this connecting element, or active end, being capable of being secured to the means of ver ⁇ ou ⁇ ll »age déverrou ⁇ llage, the subscription of the latter being controlled by a lock actuated by a key, characterized in that the other end of the connecting element, or fixing end, is secured to holding means which appear to be a structure.
• the connecting element advantageously consists of a flexible cable.
• the locking / unlocking means can also be mounted mobile on a profiled element integral with the structure.
• the device comprises a single lock and switching means making it possible, from said single lock, to control the various locking / unlocking elements.
• This single lock can be placed on a control unit which has a display screen on which is displayed a reference corresponding to that of the activated / deactivated lock.
• the locking / unlocking means may comprise means for reading the information recorded on a magnetic strip of a card acting as a key, and electronic interface means ensuring the control of the locking / unlocking means.
• the information reading means are capable of reading the information encoded on a magnetic strip of a railway ticket.
• the reading means of information may be associated with a memory capable of receiving the information read from the magnetic track, and comparator means adapted to compare the stock its information in the memory with those read on a magnetic track during a subsequent passage of the latter in the reading means, and to interface means capable of controlling the unlocking of the connection element when the two items of information compared are identical.
• the structure comprises a bar on which several rings are threaded, the locking cable itself being threaded
• the device comprises winding means on which each connecting element is wound respectively and on which the fixing end of each connecting element is fixed.
• the winding means may include a drum fitted with a winding return spring, this drum being provided with a helical groove in which the connecting element takes place when it is wound on the drum.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of an automatic deposit device according to the invention.
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view on a smaller scale of an alternative embodiment of the deposit device shown in FIG. 1.
• FIG. 2a is a front view of an alternative embodiment of the device shown in FIG. 1.
• Figure 3 is a perspective view showing a -detail of embodiment of a locker implemented in the device according to the invention.
• Figure 4 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the device according to the invention.
• Figure 5a is a vertical and cross sectional view of another embodiment of a deposit device according to the invention.
• Figure Sb is a top view of a security block implemented in the device shown in Figure 5a.
• FIG. 6a is a top view of another mode of implementation of a deposit device according to the invention.
• Figure 6b is a front view of the device shown in Figure 6a.
• Figure 6c is a cross-sectional view of the device shown in Figures 6a -and 6b, along the line VIc-Vlc thereof.
• Figure 6d is an enlarged partial sectional view of the device shown in Figure 6a along line VId-VId thereof.
• Figure 6e is an enlarged partial sectional view of the locking device used on the devices shown in Figures 6a to 6d.
• Figure 6f is a perspective view of the device according to the invention shown in Figures 6a to 6e.
• Figure 6g is a horizontal sectional view of an implementation detail of the device shown in Figure 6a.
• the deposit device shown in Figure 1 consists essentially of a bar 1 which is fixed at each of its ends 2 on partition elements 3 Several rings 5 are threaded on the bar 1 of which only one is shown in Figure 1 A connecting element 7. in the present case constitutes a flexible cable resistant to shearing is threaded into the space compns between the bar 1 and the ring 5 and ends at each of its respective ends on the one hand by a locker 9 and on the other hand by a locking head 11.
• Locker 9 is itself made up of two releases, namely a coin mechanism
• the coin mechanism is of known type and may in particular be constituted by a coin mechanism of the type used in the safes made available to users in stations. More specifically, the coin mechanism in the present device comprises a housing 17 intended to receive the locking head 11 after the user has passed it into the space compns between the handle 18 and the body of the luggage 19 that he wishes to immobilize. The user after having introduced into the coin slot 13 either a coin or an adequate token 20, actuates a key 21 secured to the lock 15 so as to block the locking head 11 in the locker 9. The user can then recover its key 21 which will be used later when it wishes to recover its luggage, to release the locking head 11
• Ann-sau 5 following the present invenuon performs two functions.
• a first function is a safety function insofar as the coin mechanism 9 and the locking head 1 1 are given a volume such that it prevents these two elements from passing into the space compns between the bar 1 and the 'ring 5
• a second function of the rings 5 arranged on the bar 1 is to ensure the storage side by side of the different lockers 9 and their respective connecting elements 7 by preventing their entanglement.
• the structure 3 of which the bar 1 is integral may be constituted, as shown in FIG. 1, by partition elements 3 like those that can be encountered, in particular in railways, or also may be made up of a gantry 22, possibly made mobile by feet 23 mounted on casters 24, as shown in Figure 2
• An advantage of the device according to the invention is that it can be used not only for securing ngid luggage but also for items of clothing, such as in particular jackets, by introducing the flexible connecting element 7 to the inside of the sleeves
• the locker 9 can include a lock 15 ′ of the electromechanical type.
• This lock 15 ′ is enclosed in a housing 25, the upper part of which comprises a reading slot 27 into which the user can insert a track card.
• magnetic which is read by electronic means of any conventional reading type, contained in the housing 25, and which ensure, once the user has introduced the locking head 11 into the housing 17, the locking of this one.
• the electromechanical device includes memory means which enable it to record a locking code appearing on the magnetic card, a locking code which it will recognize when the user reinserts his magnetic card into the reading slot. when he wishes to unlock the head 11 in order to recover his luggage.
• the power supply to the housing 25 may be provided by a supply wire 26 or, for example, by rechargeable batteries which will be replaced periodically in the housing 25.
• each locker 9 is joined to the electronics contained in the control unit 31 by specific wiring.
• the control unit 31 may possibly include digital display means 14 making it possible to indicate to the user the number of a device free he can use
• a rail 33 is used, consisting of a profiled element, which is fixed at its ends to the partition elements 3 ensuring the maintenance of the bar 1
• Each locker 9 is provided with appropriate mechanical means allowing it to slide on the rail 33 in order to position it at best in the vicinity of the baggage which one wishes to ensure immobilization.
• Each locker 9 carries, on its front face, a digital display screen 35 indicating its own number as well as an indicator light 37
• a digital display screen 35 indicating its own number as well as an indicator light 37
• the device comprises a single electromechanical lock 15a disposed on a control unit 31, which controls the various lockers 9 arranged on the rail 33
• the control unit 31 comprises, in addition to the means 15a for reading magnetic cards, indicator lights 37 associated respectively with each of the lockers 9.
• the locking head 11 comprises, near its end, a circular groove 28 intended to receive, in the locking position, a bolt 30 It also comprises a second shallow circular groove 29 in which comes bear a ball 32 under the action of a spring 34.
• the bottom of the housing 17 which receives the locking head 11 is provided with a microswitch 36 whose probe 38 is tilted under the action of the end of the locking head 11 when the latter is in position in the hole 17 and which makes it possible to detect the positioning of the locking head.
• the user after having chosen a 9 hbr locker and a connecting element 7 associated therewith, and after having passed the locking head 11 in a loop of his luggage, introduces the latter into the housing 17 provided on the locker 9
• the upstream part of the latter pushes the probe 38 of the microswitch 36.
• the temporary holding means constituted by the ball 32 and the spring 34 then ensure the immobilization of the locking head 11 against a possible involuntary withdrawal, pending final locking.
• the user reinserts his magnetic card into the reading slot of the electromechanical lock 15 a, so that the number of his card is read and, if it corresponds to the number stored in the electromechanical means, the bolt 30 is retracted, so that the locked head 11 is released so that the user can then recover his luggage.
• the electromechanical device which is provided with the control unit 31 comprises a circuit suitable for Ure this code, and a memory for storing it.
• a user wishes to block his luggage, after having passed the li-aison element 7 in a loop 5 thereof, and after having introduced the locking head 11 of this element in the lock of the locker 9, d passes the magnetic strip of its transport ticket through the reading slot provided for this purpose on the locker 9.
• the reading means then read the code of the transport ticket and write it in the memory, then electromechanical means control the movement of the lock in the groove provided for this purpose on the locking head 11
• electromechanical means control the movement of the lock in the groove provided for this purpose on the locking head 11
• the user again passes the magnetic strip of his ticket in the reading slot of the lock 15a, so that the read circuit reads the code inserted therein and compares it to that stored in the memou-e. If the two codes are identical, the electrical means control an interface and actuate the retraction of the lock 30, and the release of the locking head 11.
• the device according to the invention is then ready for another use.
• the connecting element can be constituted by other means than a flexible cable.
• the deposit device is mainly constituted by a vertical column 41 on which slides a safety block 43 vertically.
• the safety block 43 is provided with fixing means 44 which make it possible to position it in height relative to the luggage.
• the secunte block 43 comprises a hedge element 7 ′ consists of a nugid metal part in the shape of a U, one branch 45 of which is slidably mounted therein
• the end of the other branch 47 of the U-shaped piece ends with a locking head 1 after passing through the handles or handles of the luggage, the locking head 11 ′ of the branch 47 takes place in a recess provided in the safety block 43
• Means mechanical and / or electrical locking devices ensure, as previously decnt, the mamtien and the hberation of the locking head 11 'in the safety block 43
• FIGS. 6a to 6g A particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGS. 6a to 6g.
• the deposit device is arranged between two side walls 3 with a structure which is fixed relative to the ground, and the hedge element (7), consisting of a flexible cable, is made integral with this structure by means of a cyhndnque drum 50 on which it is wound.
• the drum 50 is thus mounted for rotation about a vertical axis 52 against return means constituted by a spiral spring 54 housed in the drum 50
• the latter is provided with a helical groove 56
• One of the ends of the hedge element 7 is secured to the drum 50 for example by means of a pin 58 which takes place in a yoke 60 secured to the end of the hedge element 7
• a pin 58 which takes place in a yoke 60 secured to the end of the hedge element 7
• each of the hedge elements 7 crosses a front portion 64 of the casing 62 and ends, as in the previous embodiments, by a locking head 11
• the return springs 54 apply the locking heads 11 against the front part 64 of the casing 62.
• the locked head 11 is intended to perform a double function, on the one hand it must constitute at its end hbre a handle of traction of the hedge element intended to facilitate gripping by the user, and it must on the other hand ensure its own locking function.
• This locking head 11 advantageously comprises an annular body hollowed out by a circular groove 28 'in which engages the bolt 30 actuated by an electric lock 53.
• a spring ball system 32 , 34 cooperates with a corresponding groove 29 provided on the locking head 11 so as to immobilize the latter as long as the bolt 30 has not been locked.
• the orifices of the housings 17 intended to collect the various locking heads 11 are preferably arranged under the casing 62.
• the device is provided with a limit switch 36 intended to detect the presence of the locking head 11 in its receiving orifice 17.
• the bolt 30 is provided with a first frustoconical boss 68 intended to bear on a feeler 64 of a microswitch 66 when it is in the locking position, and of a second frustoconical boss 69 intended to cooperate with a probe 70 of a second microswitch 72 when it is in the unlocked position.
• the present embodiment of the invention is particularly advantageous in that only the parts of the various connecting elements used are outside the device, which avoids their entanglement during use.
• a safety device which makes it possible to short-circuit all the locking means so that. in particular in the event of an accident, when the present device is placed for example in a railway wagon. it is possible to simultaneously release all of the locking heads of the devices.
• coin acceptors can be arranged in combination with the various locking / unlocking means in order to control, if desired, the operation of these.

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