RU2058591C1 - Device for holding and issuing objects - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: automation. SUBSTANCE: device has housing which contains cells where objects are stored and which are designed as tanks without cover. Housing cover with rest is located over cells. Cells are mounted for turning and dumping under housing cover to housing rest by their weight. Each cell is locked in vertical position by its holding lath, which touches core of electromagnet and has hook on its holding end. Another end of holding lath is loosely attached to immovable part of magnetic circuit and is located in groove of comb, which is located in housing and is mounted for rotation which is stopped by series of holding lathes. When cells are set, identification code is entered. Then, electromagnet of corresponding cell is energized. In emergency or in fault condition comb may be turned by means of a key, which raises holding lathes until they stops at electromagnet cores, electromagnets do not operate in this circumstances. EFFECT: simplified design, facilitated use, increased field of application. 2 cl, 2 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to machines for storing items such as keys, passes, storage media, etc. intended for individual use in institutions and industrial premises.

 Currently, such devices are specialized in storing objects that are simple in shape and made of hard or soft material (for example, gaps), in which it is not difficult to cut grooves in suitable places for the capture of these objects by a holding mechanism. In complex objects (keys) or flexible (paper recording media) objects, it is more difficult to finalize for capture, and it is impractical to develop significantly or somehow different structures for objects that vary in configuration, size and material properties. It is more expedient to develop universal devices that ensure safety in standard storage facilities for bodies or other identical objects with their automatic issuance.

Known central repository of storage media [1]
The device contains strips that fit into the cutouts available on the carrier. The lower ends of the slats have grooves covered by a flexible or movable rigid wall. The grooves are connected to a source of pneumatic or hydraulic pressure, so that the flexible walls can be inflated and the hard walls enter the cutouts, so that the carriers selected for delivery are held and the rest are released. The design is complex, this drawback is due to the fact that, in addition to the electromechanical drive for general control of the device, the store uses a source of pneumatic or hydraulic power.

A device for storing and issuing passes [2]
The pass is placed on the inclined roller tables in the cells of the license plate sections, and the axis of the roller tables is made in the form of fastening ties, which simultaneously serve as the rotary axes of the unbalanced levers, equipped with stops that hold the pass in an inclined position and keys. When you press one of the keys, the unbalanced lever rises and the emphasis releases the necessary pass, which, under the action of gravity, rolls along the inclined roller table and falls on the table or conveyor belt. To prevent the passage from falling past the table or conveyor, a guard is provided. After releasing the key, the unbalanced lever under the action of gravity returns to its original position. The pass is issued by the watchman after checking the identity of the person passing through the checkpoint. The device does not require power supply, but requires the constant presence of a verifier and does not fully provide a privacy mode. The need for a special table (or conveyor) with a shield at the place where the badge falls, makes the construction somewhat cumbersome.

 Closest to the invention is a device for storing and issuing badges [3]. The housing of the device contains cells with gaps, the first and second spring-loaded hinge strips holding the pass due to the fact that they interact with the side and upper grooves made in the gaps. The device also contains a gear rod, an additional hinge plate and magnetic drives of the respective position locks, blocking and unlocking the movement of the strips, and therefore gaps in the cells. The drives are switched on by signals from the control unit, which identifies a pass by the dialed code and the pressed button near the corresponding cell.

 The disadvantage of this device is that with the existing set of structural elements operating in different planes, it has a kinematically complex design. The need to perform special grooves in passes interacting with pass-holding strips limits the possibility of using the design as applied to other items for storage with their automatic issuance.

 The objective of the invention is to provide a simple device due to a significant limitation of power and moving elements and kinematic connections and connections between them with the possibility of using the same standard design, designed to store and automatically issue objects of various shapes, configurations and material properties by introducing automatically opening containers with some identifiable items.

 The purpose of the invention is the simplification of the device, ensuring ease of use and versatility of storage of various items.

 In FIG. 1 shows a device with installed containers in one piece; in FIG. 2 version of the device with removable containers.

 A device for storing and dispensing items contains a housing 1 with retaining bars 2, electromagnets 3 and position sensors 4. The housing is made with a visor 5 (see Fig. 1) or 6 (see Fig. 2), under which are installed on a common axis 7 open containers 8 (see Fig. 1) or 9 (see Fig. 2) open with the possibility of tilting them to the stop 10 (see Fig. 1) or 11 (see Fig. 2) under the action of gravity of its own weight. Each container 8 or 9 is locked upright by its retaining bar. The retaining strip 2 is in contact, like an anchor with the core 12 of the electromagnet 3 above it, has a hook from the holding end (a window 13 is provided for the exit of the holding ends of the strips from the housing 1 to the outside, and slots 14 can be made in the walls of the containers to capture them with hooks), and with the opposite end having a groove, it is freely mounted on the jumper of an arm 15 attached to the housing made of soft magnetic material and constituting together with the core 12 the fixed part of the electromagnet magnetic circuit (then As the retaining plate is the moving part of the magnetic circuit). The retaining bar is freely set, in addition, into a groove 16 made along its width in a comb 17 installed in the bearings (not shown in the drawing), which is capable of axial rotation to the core 12 of the entire row of retaining bars. The position sensors are microswitches 4 enclosed in the pad 18 and in contact with the elastic levers 19. In general, the device is most conveniently mounted on the wall, for which an adapter panel 20 can be provided.

 The device has the following operating modes: storage mode, delivery mode, installation mode of the item for storage and emergency mode.

 In storage mode, the entire series of electromagnets 3 is de-energized, and all containers 8 or 9 are held upright by the hook-shaped ends of the retaining bars 2, having pivot points in the grooves 16 of the comb 17 and on the bracket 15. One of the holding bars 2 is engaged with one of the the axis 7 of the containers 8 is shown in FIG. 1. Storage mode is fixed by position sensors: containers through elastic levers 19 are in contact with microswitches 4.

 To get the desired item, you need to dial the identification code on the control unit (not shown, the chip is not shown in the compartment 21). According to the signal from the control unit, one of the electromagnets 3 is triggered, the retaining bar 2, which plays the role of the anchor, is attracted to its core 12 and frees one of the containers 8 or 9 from holding, which under the influence of its own weight tilts on the axis 7 displaced from the center of gravity of the container to the stop 10 or 11 with exit from under the visor 5 or 6 (in the extreme upper position, the retaining bar 2 is shown in the foreground in Fig. 2). The holding bar 2 raised by the electromagnet 3 should not completely exit the groove 16 of the comb 17, because the grooves are designed to prevent the strips from moving along a row of containers. The retaining bar cannot also shift in its longitudinal direction due to the fact that the groove at its free end is mated to the jumper 22 of the bracket 15. The ones shown in FIG. 1 containers 8 mounted on axis 7 are designed to store items, which are not difficult to remove from the container after leaving its upper part from under the shelter. For convenience of removing an object from this container, a cutout, for example, such as that shown in FIG. 1.

 The container tilted all the way to the stop 11 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) can be pulled out completely, since a groove is made in the container in place of the axial hole parallel to the visor 6 and stop 11, allowing removal of this container, after which the object in it can be removed by turning the container upside down.

 When installing containers 8 or 9 in place, the identification code is also first dialed. The corresponding electromagnet 3 activates, raising its holding bar 2. The container manually returns under the visor all the way into the housing 1 and into the elastic lever 19, under the influence of which the corresponding microswitch 4 is actuated. The electromagnet releases the holding bar, which falls due to gravity due to its own weight at its end, hooks onto the container wall, blocking the latter in an upright position.

 In emergency and other emergency situations, when all containers are required to be unblocked simultaneously, comb 17 (it is better if it is made of a round bar) can be turned with a key around its axis until, when the entire row of retaining bars partially exits from the grooves of the comb, rotating ( clockwise in the drawing), raises the bars with their body to the stop in the cores of 12 electromagnets, which in these cases do not work.

 The proposed device can be used not only in production and administrative services, but also in retail outlets, libraries, postal departments, game stores, etc.

Claims (2)

 1. DEVICE FOR STORING AND DELIVERY OF OBJECTS, comprising a case with cells for storing items, holding bars, electromagnets and position sensors, characterized in that the cells for storing items are made in the form of open containers on top of which there is a visor on the case with an emphasis, the containers are installed on a common axis with the possibility of locking each container in a vertical position by means of the same holding strip, a position sensor is installed in the movement zone of each container, each holding schaya strap is made of a ferromagnetic material, located in the zone of action of the electromagnet in a corresponding groove in the fixed comb body, one end of each retaining strap is kinematically connected to a corresponding container placed on the other fixed part of the magnetic circuit installed in the housing.  2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the comb is installed in the housing with the possibility of axial rotation until it stops in the cores of the entire row of retaining bars.

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