EP1608820A1

EP1608820A1 - Passage gate

Info

Publication number: EP1608820A1
Application number: EP04721480A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Markus Benz
Original assignee: Brueder Siegel GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Brueder Siegel GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2003-04-03
Filing date: 2004-03-18
Publication date: 2005-12-28
Also published as: NZ538209A; DE20305477U1; AU2004225817A1; WO2004088050A1

Abstract

Disclosed is a passage gate, especially a passage gate for persons, comprising a stationary support piece (1), a swiveling piece (3) which is rotatable thereabout and to which a door leaf (20) is fixed via at least one connecting piece (21), an intermediate member that is also rotatable relative to the support piece (1), a panic safeguard which acts between the intermediate member and the swiveling piece or the support piece, and a locking member that acts between the intermediate member and the support piece or the swiveling piece, is part of a locking mechanism, and is movable in the direction of the swiveling axis (8) between two positions, the swiveling piece (3) being blocked in one of said positions while being pivotable in the other position. The inventive passage gate is characterized in that the locking mechanism is provided with a stationary actuating element (16) which rests on a stationary holder and acts upon the locking member via a coupling device in order to displace the locking member along the swiveling axis (8).

Description

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The present invention relates to a passage barrier, in particular a person passage barrier, comprising a stationary support part, a pivoting part rotatable about this, on which a door leaf is attached via at least one connecting part, an intermediate member which is also rotatable relative to the supporting part, one between the intermediate member on the one hand and the pivoting part or the Supporting part on the other hand panic protection and a locking member acting between the intermediate member on the one hand and the supporting part or the swivel part on the other hand, which is part of a locking device and in the direction of the swivel axis between two positions in which one blocks the swivel part and in the other the swivel part is pivotable ,

Barrier barriers of the type in question are used in particular in supermarkets. There they serve to close the passages in the checkout area at unoccupied checkouts. The integrated panic protection allows the door leaf to be opened in an emergency, regardless of the position of the locking device or the locking member, simply by exceeding a predetermined minimum torque. In this sense, in the context of the present application, the statement that the swivel part is blocked should be understood to mean that, with the corresponding position of the locking member, the swivel part with the door wing attached to it can be rotated about the swivel axis by triggering the panic protection. A passage barrier of the type specified above is known from DE 19857611 AI. This passage barrier is characterized in that an actuating element in the form of a knob protruding from the top of the standpipe is used to actuate the locking member such that the pivoting part is either blocked or pivotable. This passage barrier can also be locked. For this purpose, a lock is assigned to the locking device. If this lock is unlocked, the position of the locking element can be changed by actuating the knob; if the lock is locked, a change in the position of the locking member is not possible. For this purpose, the lock mentioned is received in a bearing part which is connected directly or indirectly to the supporting part and acts on a linkage connecting the knob to the locking member.

Further lockable cash register barriers with an essentially comparable function are known from German utility model 7713093 and European patent application 0849432. In the passage barrier according to German utility model 7713093, the lock is accommodated in a handle which protrudes sideways from the tubular swivel part and is firmly connected to a sleeve which is arranged in the annular space between the tubular support part and the swivel tube surrounding it. If the lock is unlocked, the sleeve can be moved along the pivot axis via the handle in order to either block the pivot part or to remove the blocking, depending on the position of the sleeve. In the passage barrier according to European patent application 0849432, the corresponding lock is mounted in a cap, which is slidably received in the upper end of the swivel part designed as a swivel tube along its axis. A sleeve is connected to that cap, which can be displaced along the pivot axis, which is part of the locking device and, in the locked state, connects the pivot tube and the intermediate member to one another in a rotationally fixed manner.

All three passage barriers recognized above have the disadvantage that they are hardly or not at all suitable for housing the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part; because the element used to change the position of the locking member, be it a knob (see DE 19857611 AI), a handle (see DE 7713093 Ul) or a cap (see EP 0849432 AI), so that the operator can operate it , remain freely accessible. Incidentally, the handling of known passage barriers does not fully meet the requirements of practice insofar as it partly is relatively cumbersome or expensive to change the position of the door leaf at a checkout lock with a locked lock. To do this, the lock must first be unlocked; and only in a second step can the blocking of the pivoting part be released by influencing a corresponding actuating member.

Against the background of the prior art shown above, the present invention has for its object to provide a passage barrier of the generic type, which is particularly suitable for housing the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part and can be carried out particularly easy to use. This object is achieved according to the present invention in that the locking device comprises a stationary actuating element which is supported on a stationary holder and which acts on the locking member via a coupling device in order to displace it along the pivot axis. In other words, it is essential for the passage barrier according to the invention that that actuating element, which acts on the locking member in order to change the state of the locking device by changing its position, is not itself displaceable and / or pivotable in any way, but rather rather is arranged stationary. The stationary holder, which is used to support the actuating element, absorbs reaction forces and possibly reaction moments which arise when the actuating element changes the position of the locking member. In order to block the position of the door leaf or to remove the blockage, no actuation element of any kind, which can be displaced parallel to the pivot axis, therefore needs to be freely accessible in the passage barrier according to the present invention. Rather, the actuating element provided according to the present invention is stationary, so that it does not hinder a housing of the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part. The support of the actuating element on a stationary holder also allows, as will be described in detail below, the actuation of the locking device, for example, via electro-mechanical units, which is particularly favorable in terms of ease of use. According to a first preferred development of the invention, the coupling device comprises a sliding element, on which the stationary actuating element acts and which is guided displaceably in the direction of the pivot axis. That sliding element can in particular be designed as a sleeve, which is displaceably guided on the supporting part, in particular a supporting tube, according to a particularly preferred development of the present invention, outside of the area in which the pivoting part surrounds the supporting part. This enables the stationary actuating element to act on the sliding sleeve with minimal structural expenditure, in particular in the case of housing the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part.

According to another preferred development of the invention, it is provided that a mounting plate, which extends in a plane parallel to the pivot axis, is provided with two bracket-like holders, on which the supporting part is supported in the region of its two ends. In particular, the stationary actuating element can also be supported on the mounting plate or on a bracket-like holder assigned to it. This further development is also of particular advantage, in particular with regard to the assembly effort, in the case of housing the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part.

Against the same background, it proves to be particularly favorable if the at least one connecting part, via which the one door wing is attached to the swivel part, is angled such that the swivel axis maintains a predetermined distance from the plane of the door leaf.

What the. Depending on the requirements, there are several options for designing the stationary actuating element. According to a particularly preferred further development of the invention, the actuating element comprises a cylinder lock with a downstream eccentric, which acts, for example, on the sliding sleeve mentioned above. In this case, the locking member is actuated directly via the lock. This has a particularly favorable effect on handling; because unlocking the lock and unblocking the pivoting part form a single operation in this case, contrary to the state of the art according to DE 19857611 AI and DE 7713093 Ul. With this development, manipulations on the passage barrier by unauthorized persons are reliably excluded with minimal effort.

In the context of the present invention, it is in no way imperative that the stationary actuating element itself must be accessible to the operators. Rather, it is conceivable, for example, that an electromechanically designed, stationary actuating element, which can include an electromagnet, is not readily accessible. In this case, the blocking of the pivoting part can be released by correspondingly acting on the electromechanical actuating element, for example by connecting the relevant electromagnet to the electronics of the cash register to which the passage barrier is assigned. If the cash register is switched on, the electromagnet actuates the blocking element automatically in such a way that the passage barrier can be easily opened.

Other particularly advantageous developments of the passage barrier according to the invention are characterized in that the panic protection acts between the intermediate part and the pivoting part and / or in that the coupling device comprises a linkage arranged in the interior of the supporting part. Both features are favorable with regard to a particularly compact design of the assembly comprising the supporting part and the pivoting part, which favors their housing with a small space requirement.

The present invention is explained in more detail below with reference to two preferred exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawing. Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a first embodiment of a passage barrier according to the present invention, Fig. 2, also in a perspective view, the installation situation of the passage barrier according to Fig. 1 in a cash desk and Fig. 3 again in a perspective, partially sectioned view second embodiment of a passage barrier according to the present invention.

1, the support part 1 in the form of a support tube 2 and a swivel part 3 in the form of a swivel tube 4, the assembly 5 is constructed in accordance with its essential design features essentially in accordance with the passage barrier according to DE 19857611 AI. In this regard, to understand the passage barrier shown in the drawing referred to this publication, unless the differences below explain otherwise.

The assembly 5 comprising the support tube 2 and the swivel tube 4 is mounted for mounting on a vertical wall 6 in a specific holder 7. This includes a mounting plate 9 parallel to the pivot axis 8 of the pivot tube 4 with three bracket-like holders 10, 11, 12. In an upper holder 10 and a lower holder 11, the support tube 2 is mounted with its upper end 13 and its lower end 14.

The third holder 12 protrudes sideways from the mounting plate 9. In it a lock 15, which forms an actuating element 16 for the locking device, is mounted in a stationary manner. The lock 15 acts via an eccentric 17 on a sliding sleeve 18 which is slidably mounted in the area in which the support tube 2 is not surrounded by the pivot tube 4 on the support tube parallel to the pivot axis 8 of the pivot tube. The sliding sleeve 18 is connected to the locking element of the locking device via a linkage (arranged in the support tube) (cf. DE 19857611 AI); For this purpose, two elongated holes 19 are arranged in the support tube for the passage of the connecting pins connecting the sliding sleeve 18 with that linkage. The holder 12, which is used to support the lock 15 in a fixed manner, absorbs reaction forces which result from the construction of the locking device when the lock is actuated.

With the lock 15, the locking device is unlocked and operated at the same time. This is done at blocked pivoting part 3 to remove the blockage, the key belonging to the lock rotated by 90 °, whereby the locking member emerges from its locking position and the door leaf 20 can be pivoted in the desired direction. The key can be turned back and removed after part of the swivel movement. If the pivoting movement is completed, the locking member in the new position of the swivel tube 4 snaps into a second detent position due to its action by a biasing spring (see DE 1985761 AI) and blocks the swivel tube 4 together with the door leaf 20 in this position a spring, in a correspondingly modified construction, a latching of the locking member in the two end positions of the door leaf 20 solely due to the force of gravity comes into consideration. If required, locking of the locking member can also be limited to a position of the door leaf, in particular its position blocking a passage.

The two connecting parts 21, via which the door leaf 20 is attached to the swivel tube 4, are designed angled in such a way that the swivel axis 8 maintains a predetermined distance from the plane of the door leaf 20.

FIG. 2 shows a cash desk, which is equipped with an integrated passage barrier, which in turn comprises the assembly illustrated in FIG. 1. That assembly is mounted by means of the mounting plate 9 shown in FIG. 1 on the body 22 of the cash desk, namely on the inside of its right side wall. At the front, the checkout counter has a plurality of doors 23a, 23b, each of which is lock 24 are lockable. The rightmost door 23a, behind which the mechanical assembly of the passage lock is arranged, has two horizontal elongated holes 25 which are arranged one above the other and which serve for the passage of the connecting parts 21 supporting the door leaf 20. The lock 15 (see above) is accessible through a bore 26 arranged in the same door. By means of the associated key 27, the locking device can be unlocked and actuated simultaneously in the sense described above.

Fig. 2 shows the door leaf 20 in the position in which it blocks the passage 28 adjacent to the cash desk 22. If the door leaf 20 is pivoted into its passage-opening position, as illustrated in FIG. 1, the door 23a of the cash desk 22 can be opened. In this way, the storage space behind the door 23a of the cash desk and in particular also the assemblies of the passage barrier housed therein are accessible.

The passage barrier according to FIG. 3 corresponds to that according to FIG. 1 with regard to relevant design features. To avoid repetition, reference is made to the explanations of the passage barrier shown in FIG. 1. Deviations exist in particular with regard to the assembly and the locking device.

As far as the support of the support tube 2 is concerned, two bearing blocks 29 are provided in the embodiment according to FIG. 2, which are screwed to the mounting plate 9 'by means of two screws 30 each and in which the upper and lower ends of the support tube 2 are mounted is. The bevels 31 provided at the top and bottom of the mounting plate 9 'are not used to support the support tube, but rather to supplementally mount the mounting plate 9' on the cash register table on assigned surfaces of the body 22 'thereof, so that the mounting plate 9 is particularly stably attached 'on three surfaces of the cash desk. Moreover, this type of assembly has particular advantages with regard to the laying of the electrical lines, which can be introduced into the supporting tube from above and / or from below without hindrance.

3 is equipped with an electromechanical locking device. This comprises an electromagnet 32, which is received in the bore 33 of a mounting ring 34, which in turn is fastened on the inside in the support tube 2, namely in its lower section. The electromagnet 32 acts on a linkage 35 which is connected to a bolt 36 which is guided vertically displaceably in two elongated holes 37 provided in the support tube 2. A rubber vibration damper 38 is integrated in the linkage in order to buffer impacts.

3 finally shows the electronic control 39, which is attached to a stopper 40 which closes the support tube 2 at its upper end and can thus be accommodated in a space-saving and protected manner inside the support tube 2.

Claims

Expectations

1. passage barrier, in particular passenger passage barrier, comprising a stationary support part (1), a pivoting part (3) which can be rotated about this and to which a door leaf (20) is attached via at least one connecting part (21), and which is also rotatable relative to the support part (1) Intermediate link, a panic protection acting between the intermediate link on the one hand and the swivel part or the supporting part on the other hand, and a locking member acting between the intermediate link on the one hand and the support part or the swivel part on the other hand, which is part of a locking device and in the direction of the swivel axis (8) between two positions, in its one blocks the swivel part (3) and in the other the swivel part can be swiveled, is displaceable, characterized in that the locking device comprises a stationary actuating element (16) which is supported on a stationary holder and which acts on the locking member via a coupling device this along the SC to move the pivot axis (8).

2. Barrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the coupling device comprises a sliding element on which the stationary actuating element (16) acts and which is guided displaceably in the direction of the pivot axis (8).

3. passage barrier according to claim 2, characterized in that the sliding element is designed as a sliding sleeve (18) which is arranged outside that area in which the pivoting part (3) surrounds the support part (1).

4. passage barrier according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that a mounting plate (9) is provided which extends in a plane parallel to the pivot axis (8) and on which the support member (1) in the region of its two ends (13th , 14) is supported.

5. passage barrier according to claim 4, characterized in that the actuating element (16) is supported on a on the mounting plate (9) arranged holder (12).

6. Barrier according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the at least one connecting part (21), via which the door leaf (20) is attached to the pivoting part (3), is angled such that the pivot axis (8) opposite maintains a predetermined distance from the plane of the door leaf (20).

7. passage barrier according to one of claims 1 to

6, characterized in that the actuating element (16) comprises a cylinder lock (15) with a downstream eccentric (17).

8. passage barrier according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the panic protection acts between the intermediate part and the pivoting part (3).

9. passage barrier according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the coupling device an inside the

Carrier part (1) arranged linkage.

10. Barrier barrier according to one of claims 1 to

9, characterized in that the locking member is biased by a spring element and / or by gravity in at least one locking position blocking the pivoting part (3).

11. Barrier according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the actuating element (16) is designed electromechanically.