EP0085069B1 - Armoire - Google Patents

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EP0085069B1
EP0085069B1 EP82902271A EP82902271A EP0085069B1 EP 0085069 B1 EP0085069 B1 EP 0085069B1 EP 82902271 A EP82902271 A EP 82902271A EP 82902271 A EP82902271 A EP 82902271A EP 0085069 B1 EP0085069 B1 EP 0085069B1
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Barth Douglas Ohlsson
Sten Lars Olof Akesson
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ELECTRONIC LOCKS SWEDEN AB
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    • 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
    • G07F17/12—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 comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned

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  • This invention relates to a locker provided with a compartment system including several movable compartments placed in a closed casing provided with at least one stationary opening, in front of which at control the movable compartments are placeable one at a time for insertion of luggage to be stored or for taking back stored luggage.
  • a compartment When a compartment is placed in front of the opening, the other compartments are hidden in the locker, so that entrance to a compartment for others than service staff only can be made through said openings.
  • a locker of this kind is described in GB-A-2 015 326.
  • This kind of locker is often designed as wardrobes placed in cloakrooms in public institutions, such as in hospitals, theatres etc., in order to give a safe place for people to hang up one's things and to have them protected against theft, possible damage, etc., because they are hidden.
  • the locker may also comprise several compartment system sections located one above the other. These kind of lockers are suitable to be used for temporary safe-keeping of goods in department stores, railway stations or the like.
  • a very useful locker of this kind has several rotatable compartment system sections located one above the other within a casing having as many openings as the number of sections placed in a vertical row.
  • the width and height of the openings are adapted to the width and height of the front side of the compartments.
  • the known locker may be provided with a processing unit provided with a memory, in which the processing unit stores a code for each compartment, which code includes information regarding if the compartment is occupied or not, and a driving mechanism for the compartment system controlled by the processing unit.
  • the processing unit marks this in the memory, searches in the memory after an unoccupied compartment, which fulfils predetermined preference demands and which has the shortest path way to the opening or the openings and controls the driving mechanism to place the found compartment in front of an opening.
  • a control panel having a coin slot is provided at the side of the opening or the vertical row of openings.
  • a person has hung up his things or inserted some goods he wants to have stored in a compartment in front of an opening, he inserts the payment into the coin slot.
  • a card is delivered. This card has marks on it, which designate the compartment in question. the marks may for instance be punched holes or magnetic information recorded on a magnetic tape provided on the card.
  • the compartment system or the compartment system section including the compartment just occupied is rotated, so that this compartment disappears into the casing and a new, empty compartment is placed in front of the opening.
  • goods loaded in occupied compartments are hidden in the casing.
  • the compartment system rotates then so that the compartment corresponding to the marks on the card is rotated to come in front of the opening.
  • the locker in accordance with the invention has several openings and a compartment system section for each opening, the openings are provided with closeable doors controllable by the processing unit, such that for compartment systems having more than one unoccupied compartment located in front of said openings only one of said doors is open, and in that, when a compartment in one of said sections becomes occupied, said processing unit is arranged to give preference for anyone of the other sections to have its door open in front of an unoccupied compartment. Even if unoccupied compartments in more than one of the compartment system sections is placed behind the openings only one at a time of the doors of the openings is opened. When the compartment behind the open door has become occupied, the processing unit gives preference to one of the other compartment system sections to have the door open in front of an unoccupied compartment.
  • the processing unit is controlling the driving mechanism for the compartment system so that, after that an unoccupied compartment has become occupied, as few occupied compartments as possible will be located in front of an opening behind a closed door.
  • FIG. 1 a locker is shown, which has the function of a wardrobe and which comprises a rotating compartment system 1, hereinaafter referred to as a rotor.
  • the rotor comprises a cylindrical unit provided with a floor 2 and a roof 3 and having an open envelope surface.
  • the rotor is provided with a central bearer 4, which is rotatably journaled in bearings at least in its lower end.
  • the rotor is divided in vertically elongated compartments by aid of walls 5 extended vertically between the floor and the roof and radially between the bearer 4 and the periphery of the rotor.
  • a shelf 3 is shown in the upper part of each compartment.
  • the rotor 1 is placed in a casing 6, which is closed and has an opening 7 in one of its side walls.
  • the height and the width of the opening 7 correspond substantially to the height and the width of every compartment atthe periphery of the rotor 1.
  • a compartment is shown in front of the opening 7.
  • a control panel 8 is located and provided with a coin slot, a card slot and some operating keys for a presumptive user of the compartment system to press upon.
  • another control panel 9 is located at the side of the panel 8 .
  • the panel 9 is provided with operating elements for manual operation of the rotor.
  • the panel 9 is normally hidden behind a locked door 10 and is only intended to be used by service staff.
  • FIG. 1 represents a principal drawing and that the design and localisation of the panels 8, 9, the motor 11 and the housing 14 can vary widely.
  • An optical indicator including a light source 15 and a light indicator 16 is located in the opening 7 on its upper and lower edge, respectively.
  • An indicator operating with reflection and having a light source and a light indicator placed side by side is applicable as well for the same purpose. The indicator is activated as soon as the object passes through the opening in the direction in to or out from the compartment located behind the opening 7.
  • FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the control device of the locker.
  • the indicator 15,16 When a person hangs up his things in the empty compartment in front of the opening 7 the indicator 15,16 is activated.
  • the activation can also be made in another way, for instance may the person presses a key on the panel 8. In FIG. 2 this is indicated by the activation unit 18.
  • a signal is fed from the unit to a processing unit 19, which preferably is a micro computer, and also to a first timing circuit 20.
  • the processing unit 19 activates control elements 21 for the locker, such as overload protection or the like.
  • the activation time of the timing circuit 20 is so long that the control elements have time to come into their operational mode within this time.
  • the circuit 20 feeds a trigger signal to a second timing circuit 22 and also to the processing unit 19, which order a lighting of an indication 23, which for instance may have the text "INSERT PAYMENT" at the side of the coin slot.
  • the second timing circuit 22 feeds a "1"-signal to one of the inputs of and AND-gate 24 during its activation time.
  • a signal is also fed from the timing circuit 22 to the processing unit 19, which keeps the compartment system control elements 21 activated during the activation time of the timing circuit 22.
  • these elements 21 are activated only when someone intends to use the locker.
  • the two timing circuits 20, 22 and the AND-gate 24 may be an integral part of the processing unit 19, especially if the unit is a microcomputer. They may then be parts of the computer program.
  • the activation time of the timing circuit 22 is chosen to be so long that a person shall have the time to pick up money after having hung his things up.
  • a suitable time is ca. 40 seconds. If the payment is inserted within this time a signal from the AND-gate 24 is fed to the unit 19. The unit feeds a signal to the payment unit 45 indicating that the payment is accepted and a signal to a driving unit 25, which first controls that the door 26 in front of the compartment is closed and thereafter controls the motor 11 to rotate the rotor 1, so that a new unoccupied compartment is placed in front of the opening 7.
  • the processing unit 19 makes a random code for the compartment just occupied. This code is written into a memory 27. Also, the code is fed to a unit 28, which puts marks on a storage card orthe like.
  • the code on the card is read by a card reader 30 and is fed to the unit 19.
  • the unit 19 searches in the memory after the compartment having this code and controls the driving unit 25 to control the motor 11 to rotate the rotor so that the compartment in question will be placed in front of the opening 7.
  • a special bit is reserved to indicate whether the compartment is occupied or not, i.e. a so called flag is set if the compartment is occupied.
  • the flag in the memory is removed, i.e. the bit for occupation indication is made to a "0".
  • the service staff can indicate a compartment as occupied from the panel 9 and to set a flag for a particular compartment by manual control. It is also possible to remove the flags in the memory for the compartments from the panel 9.
  • the processing unit 19 searches in the memory 27 after a compartment without a flag set having as short path way to the opening 7 as possible and controls via the driving unit 25 the motor 11 to turn the rotor 1 the shortest way in order to place the compartment in question in front of the opening 7.
  • the rotor is turnable in both directions.
  • FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment of a locker in accordance with the invention.
  • this locker three compartment section systems are placed one on top of the other. Two cases are thinkable.
  • the systems can all be seated on the same rotor, in which case solid partitions are provided between adjacent compartments belonging to different systems, or else the systems are placed in several separately turnable rotors placed on top of each other.
  • FIG. 3 also another embodiment of the control panel 25 is shown. It is mounted recessed in a locked door 36 located at the side of the openings 34 placed in a vertical row in the casing 37. Behind the door the service panel is located (not shown).
  • the openings are provided with sliding doors 38, 39, 40, of which all 38, 39 are closed except one 40.
  • sliding doors 38, 39, 40 of which all 38, 39 are closed except one 40.
  • the processing unit 19 operates such that, after that a compartment has been occupied, it first makes a search through the memory 27 after a position, in which all compartments placed on top of each other are unoccupied. If such a position cannot be found, it searches through the memory 27 after the position where all the compartments except one is occupied and having the shortest path way to the vertical opening row etc. It is to be noted that the rotor is turned every time after that a compartment has been occupied, even if the most favourable position is the one that is present behind the opening row when a compartment has been occupied. Therefore, sometimes the rotor may be rotated a full turn after that a compartment has been occupied.
  • the processing unit 19 writes the randomized code for this compartment into the memory 27, controls the driving device for the door in front of the opening for this section to close the door, controls the driving device for the door in front of an unoccupied compartment above or below the occupied compartment to open the door and controls the driving mechanism for the latest occupied compartment to drive the rotor for this compartment system section, so that an unoccupied compartment comes in front of the opening, which now has a closed door.

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Claims (2)

1. Armoire comportant:
- un système de compartiments comprenant plusieurs compartiments mobiles,
- un boîtier ferme pourvu d'au moins une ouverture fixe et disposé autour dudit système de compartiments,
- un mécanisme d'entraînement commanda- ble qui sur ordre place d'un déterminé, desdits compartiments en face de ladite ouverture pour l'introduction du bagage qui doit etre stocké ou pour retirer le bagage stocké,
- une unité de calcul (19) pourvu d'une mémoire (27), dans laquelle ladite unité de calcul mémorise un code pour chacun des compartiments, comportant l'information d'occupation ou de liberté du compartiment, et
- un mécanisme d'entraînement (11) pour ledit système de compartiments (1) commandé par ladite unité de calcul (19) qui fait en sorte de changer l'information dans ladite mémoire de l'état inoccupé à l'état occupé lorsque le compartiment est devenu occupé et de chercher dans la mémoire un compartiment à l'état inoccupé qui satisfasse les-demandes préférentielles prédéter- - minées et qui soit le moins éloigné de-la ou desdits ouvertures, et pour commander ledit mé- canisme d'entraînement (11) afin de placer ce compartiment en face de l'ouverture ou de l'une desdites ouvertures, ledit boîtier étant pourvu de plusieurs ouvertures et ledit système de compartiments étant divisé en plusieurs sections, une pour chaque ouverture, caractérisée par le fait que lesdites ouvertures sont équipées de portes verrouillables (38, 39, 40) commandables par ladite unité de calcul, de sorte que pour les systèmes de compartiments ayant plus d'un compartiment inoccupé situé en face desdites ouvertures, une seule de ces portes soit ouverte, et en ce que lorsqu'un un compartiment de l'une desdites sections devient occupé, ladite unité de calcul fasse en sorte de donner la préférence à l'une quelconque des autres sections pour avoir sa porte ouverte en face d'un compartiment inoccupé.
2. Armoire selon la revendication 1, caractérisée par le fait qu'après qu'un compartiment ait été occupé, l'unité de calcul (19) faita en sorte de commander l'avancement dudit système de compartiments de façon qu'après qu'un avancement a été terminé, aussi peu que possible de compartiments occupés se trouvent derrière lesdites ouvertures, derrière la porte fermée.
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