Supports: cabinet structure – With exhibitor – indicator or sample – With contents indicia
Patent
1989-03-02
1991-08-13
Falk, Joseph
Supports: cabinet structure
With exhibitor, indicator or sample
With contents indicia
312329, 312242, A47B 8100
Patent
active
050391798
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a storage locker, particularly for use in sports facilities comprising a chamber of substantially semi-cylindrical shape and within which is disposed for coaxial rotation a compartment also of substantially semi-cylindrical shape and including a floor and ceiling of substantially circular shape.
Such a locker is described in particular in U.S. Pat. No. 2,965,429 and in French patent number 944 823.
When one tries to find a locker of this kind which is unoccupied, there are some difficulties, since the moveable compartment may happen to be in the closed position, but unlocked, so that one thinks that the locker is not available, although it is.
Moreover, it is advantageous to provide a device which enables the user to be warned that he has not properly closed his locker.
The present invention has an object a storage locker of the kind referred to above which enables the disadvantages described above to be avoided. It is particularly notable in that the said compartment is provided with a return device towards the open position and in that it comprises a locking device for the compartment comprising an elastic element, such as a spring, tending to urge the compartment away when it is in the closed position.
Because of the return device towards the open position, when the locker is not in use, the moveable compartment is automatically disposed in the open position, which enables the user to spot very quickly the available lockers. Moreover, the automatic placing of the compartments in the open position also facilitates the operation of cleaning.
Because the locking device includes an elastic element which urges the compartment away from the closed position, it is automatically sent to the open position; furthermore, this also enables the user to be warned that he has not properly closed his locker, since it will be opened fully and automatically. Advantageously, in this case, the set of chambers of a double row form a single carcase.
Another object of the invention is a changing-room comprising a plurality of rows of lockers, wherein said locking means of said locker is electrically actuable, and alarm means for generating an alarm signal in response to abuse of said locker, and surveillance means electrically connected to said locking means of said locker and comprising data processing means responsive to said alarm signals. This arrangement enables the whole changing-room to be surveilled from a central station, in which is located the data processing means that comprises a central computer and addressing means for addressing respective locking means, said locking means including respective micro-controllers for supervising the operation of said locking means.
Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description of embodiments thereof, given by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a set of lockers in accordance with an embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional side view on the line II--II of FIG. 1, the lockers being closed,
FIG. 3 is a view similar to that of FIG. 2 but with the lockers open,
FIG. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of a detail of one of the lockers, showing a locking device,
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the set of lockers in FIG. 1,
FIG. 6 is a plan view of a double row of lockers,
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data processor, and
FIG. 8 is a diagram of an electronic apparatus for a lock.
FIGS. 1, 2, 3 and 5 show a set of lockers in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
Each locker comprises a fixed chamber 1 whose shape is generally semi-cylinder and a compartment 2 which is also generally semi-cylindrical in shape and which is mounted for rotation coaxially within the chamber 1, that is to say the vertical axis 3 of the semi-cylinder forming the chamber is identical with the axis of the semi-cylinder of the compartment and forms the axis of rotation of the compartment. The diameter of the semi-cylinder forming the compartment is sli
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Falk Joseph
Secretariat d'Etat Aupres du Premier Ministre Charge de la Jeune
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