EP3375954A1 - Retractable locker - Google Patents

Abstract

This cloakroom, especially for sports facilities, comprises cabins (1) juxtaposed, defined at least by two side walls (6) parallel to one another and a door (10) hinged to one of said side walls, and to define the internal volume of each cabin.

The lateral partitions (6) are movable in translation in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane in which they are inscribed.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates retractable or retractable changing rooms, especially for sports facilities, such as including swimming pools open to the public etc.

It aims more specifically to increase, respectively decrease, the number of lockers available depending on the seasonality, and therefore the expected influx of the public in such sports facilities.

PRIOR STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE

As part of the realization of sports facilities open to the public, and more particularly to swimming pools, it is well known to dedicate to the public a space suitable to allow him to change dress. Such a space includes, more particularly public swimming pools, changing rooms, defining cabins within which said public is able to change in privacy.

Traditionally, the client or designer adapts the number of lockers available according to the size of the sports facility and the expected audience. Nevertheless, they tend to oversize these volumes in order to reduce the public's expectations. This over-sizing leads to costs related to civil engineering and development.

These costs are classically all the more overbought that the public taken into account for the realization of such locker room is that of a larger number, that is to say, corresponding to the peak periods of affluence.

The object of the invention is primarily to make it possible to adapt the number of cabins available in such locker rooms to peak periods, respectively the highest and the lowest during a season, without impacting engineering corresponding civil law.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

For this purpose, the invention relates to changing rooms including sports facilities comprising juxtaposed cabins defined by at least two side walls parallel to each other and a hinged door on one of said side walls and suitable to define the volume internal of each cabin.

According to the invention, said lateral partitions are movable in translation in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane in which they fit.

In other words, the invention consists in defining said cloakrooms by partitions, in particular side walls, a front wall, or even a bottom wall when said cloakroom is not pressed against a wall, said partitions however being movable so to allow their storage in a small footprint in low season, that is to say in low periods of affluence, and corollairement their erection in times of higher affluence, so that, in the latter case, multiply the number of cabins available for the public.

This increase in the number of cabins decreases the volume of each of the cabins, without, however, greatly affecting the comfort of the user, that is to say without drastically reducing the space available to him to allow him to change.

According to the invention, said lateral partitions are suspended on at least one and advantageously two rails integral with the ceiling of the location of the locker rooms, by suspension members, said suspension members being advantageously provided with reversible locking means on organs corresponding formed within the rails and distributed discretely.

Advantageously, the side walls are also provided with anchoring means in the floor of the room dedicated to the cloakroom, these anchoring means being again reversible and capable of cooperating with complementary members and typically blind holes, again distributed from discrete way directly on the ground or on means reported on the ground, and whose intervals correspond obviously to the intervals separating the means which are provided with the upper rails.

According to the invention and when the cabins are defined by four partitions, the partition defining the bottom is again also articulated on one of the side walls to allow its flap inside the volume defined by the partitions before retraction said partitions.

According to a feature of the invention, one of the side walls may also include a bench or seat, folding like a folding seat against said partition when they are intended to be stored and therefore retracted.

According to yet another characteristic of the invention, the cabin access door comprises not a panel but two panels, each of the two panels being articulated respectively on two consecutive adjacent lateral partitions, and being capable of falling back against the lateral partition. respective, in order to allow the storage of said partitions, and the retraction of the cabins.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

• La figure 1 est une représentation schématique en perspective illustrant le vestiaire de l'invention, respectivement en position d'affluence maximum (à gauche) et d'affluence minimum (à droite).
• La figure 2 est une représentation schématique en perspective analogue à la figure 1 selon une autre vue, avec en haut faible affluence et en bas forte affluence.
• La figure 3 est une vue de face dudit vestiaire là encore selon les deux positions :
  • en haut : faible affluence,
  • en bas : forte affluence.
• La figure 4 est une vue analogue à la figure 3.
• Les figures 5 à 8 sont des représentations schématiques d'une cloison latérale illustrant différents modes de suspension et d'ancrage.

The manner in which the invention can be realized and the advantages which result therefrom will emerge more clearly from the following exemplary embodiments, given as an indication and not a limitation to the accompanying figures.

• The figure 1 is a schematic representation in perspective illustrating the locker room of the invention, respectively in the position of maximum affluence (left) and minimum affluence (right).
• The figure 2 is a schematic representation in perspective analogous to the figure 1 according to another view, with low affluence up and down high affluence.
• The figure 3 is a front view of the cloakroom again according to the two positions:
  • at the top: low affluence,
  • bottom: high affluence.
• The figure 4 is a view similar to the figure 3 .
• The Figures 5 to 8 are schematic representations of a side wall illustrating different modes of suspension and anchoring.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The figures 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 illustrate very clearly the objective sought by the present invention. Thus, it aims, in a given volume of a room intended to serve as a cloakroom, to increase or on the contrary to reduce the number of cabins accessible to the public, and this in a simple manner, without requiring setting in motion structural work or equivalent. Obviously, this change in the configuration of the cloakroom typically occurs twice in the year, respectively as the busy period approaches and at the end of such a period. But of course, the periodicity of this configuration change can be adapted according to the needs of the operator of the sports facility concerned.

For this purpose, the invention uses cabins (1) for changing rooms, defined by removable partitions (6, 7, 10). This removability is, in the embodiment described, obtained by the suspension of side walls (6) on rails (2, 3) fixed by any means to the ceiling of said room.

More specifically and in the example described, the cabins constituting the locker of the invention are of parallelepipedal shape and defined by four partitions, respectively two side walls (6) parallel to each other, a bottom wall (7). ) and a front partition (10) acting as an access door inside the volume thus defined. The side walls (6) are suspended from the rails (2, 3), in this case at two points of attachment by any means, and in this case by vertical rods. The upper end of these rods may comprise rollers, capable of sliding freely in a raceway formed in the rails, to allow the displacement of said partitions as indicated by the double arrows shown on the figures 1 , 2 and 4 .

Of course, other modes of suspension can be envisaged, such as for example those represented within the Figures 5 and 6 , in this case constituted by through orifices (13) formed in the vicinity of the upper end of the partitions (6), allowing the passage inside rods or beams (14) of substantially circular section.

The through orifices (13) may also be of oblong shape, so as to allow a substantially vertical translation of the partition in the direction of the top, to, if necessary, to release the ground anchoring means of said partition, described below in more detail.

The bottom wall (7) and the access door (10) are in this case each constituted by two leaves, respectively (8, 9) and (10, 11), articulated in an antagonistic manner on two side walls (6). ) consecutive or adjacent, to allow their respective flap when the corresponding cabs are intended to be retracted position or retracted. In this configuration, the bottom wall (7) may also serve as an access or exit door when the operation and layout of the cloakroom require it, at the discretion of the operator.

Also shown in the figures, particularly at the level of the upper rails (2, 3), various orifices (15) intended to allow cooperation with corresponding members, and in particular rods (16) which are provided with the suspension members of the side walls (6) on said rails (2, 3) (see figures 6 and 7 ), to allow fixing at said locations said side walls, in order to define cabins of standardized and equal volumes. In doing so, the suspension means of said partitions are provided with members adapted to cooperate with these orifices, the latter being distributed discretely and periodically, the interval separating them being obviously chosen according to the number of cabins desired and the space that the designer or operator wishes to allocate to each cabin.

In parallel and in order to optimize the definition and stability of these cabins, the side walls (6) are also provided with lower anchoring members on the ground, such as for example rods (16) slidable vertically in a sheath provided for this purpose, whose lower end is simply positioned in blind ports (17) formed in the ground. Alternatively, and as shown on the figure 5 , the lower end of the side walls (6) is cut to define a projection (18) in the form of a square, adapted to cooperate in a rack (19) or equivalent, whose teeth are again distributed discretely and periodically .

Advantageously and for the comfort of the user, each of the cabins comprises a bench or folding seat (20) vertically folding against said side wall (6), especially when said partitions are stored and retracted.

The whole interest of the cloakroom of the invention is conceived which makes it possible, by simple means, easy to implement, to have a variable number of cabins depending on the degree of affluence within the installation, sporty species, without impacting on civil engineering.

Claims (8)

Cloakroom, especially for sports facilities, comprising cabins (1) juxtaposed, defined at least by two lateral partitions (6) parallel to each other and a door (10) articulated on one of said side walls, and clean to define the internal volume of each of the cabins, characterized in that said lateral partitions (6) are movable in translation in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane in which they are inscribed. Cloakroom according to claim 1, characterized in that the side walls (6) are suspended on at least one and preferably two rails (2, 3) integral with the ceiling of the location of the cloakroom, by means of suspension members. Cloakroom according to claim 2, characterized e, said suspension members are provided with reversible locking means on corresponding members formed within the rails and distributed discretely and periodically. Cloakroom according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the side walls (6) are provided with anchoring means in the floor of the room dedicated to the cloakroom, these anchoring means being reversible and capable of cooperating with complementary organs, distributed discretely and periodically. Cloakroom according to one of claims 3 and 4, characterized in that the periodicity of the locations of the organs formed on the rails and in the ground is identical. Cloakroom according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that when the cabins (1) are defined by four partitions, the partition defining the bottom (7) is articulated on one of the side walls (6) to allow its flap inside the volume defined by the partitions before the retraction of said partitions. Cloakroom according to claim 6, characterized in that the bottom partition (7) and the door partition (10) each consist of two leaves (8, 9) and (11, 12), each of the opposing leaves being articulated on two adjacent side walls, so as to be folded against said side walls. Cloakroom according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that one of the side walls (6) comprises a bench or seat, folding like a folding seat against said partition when they are intended to be stored and therefore retracted.

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