Movable or removable closures – With traffic director or controller; e.g. – one-way
Patent
1986-08-12
1987-12-22
Downey, Kenneth
Movable or removable closures
With traffic director or controller; e.g., one-way
49 25, 49131, E01F 1300
Patent
active
047139102
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a barrier post for temporarily blocking the access to parking lots, driveways and access roads which is anchored in the ground and is swingable around a hinge running transversally to its longitudinal axis, located at ground level, or can be lowered into the ground.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In order to close covered or outdoor parking lots, driveways and access roads, it is known to use barriers or gates equipped with corresponding actuating means, possibly also remote-controlled. Such barriers usually have a rigid, cast-iron base, which on its upper part has the shape of some kind of a spherical head and a correspondingly built barrier which can swing thereabout by 90 or approximately 90 degrees. Such a barrier or blocking device is known from the German Pat. No. 19 60 699.0. A blocking device, which is basically the same, is known from the German Pat. No. 27 12 546.8, but in this case however, the drawing illustrating the stable, cast-iron post has been eliminated. In this case also the barrier per se is swingable around an articulation located on the top of the post, whereby it is insured by a locking device that it can also be actuated manually, in a simple manner. Also known are the round- or square-based simple posts, blocking driveways or accesses, which are foldable and which permit access to the driveway or the entrance way by being folded down. The folding of the post is done manually in this case, and for this purpose the driver has to leave his vehicle. This is bothersome and disadvantageous, particularly in bad weather. Besides, it is also necessary to equip the barrier post with a lock, in order to prevent the folding down of the post by unauthorized persons, for passage.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to create a secure, remote-controlled, respectively remote-controllable, barrier post.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The problem is solved according to the invention by providing the post with a drive responsible for the osillation around the hinge, which can be switched on through a built-in receiver corresponding with a portable emitter.
This way a barrier post is created which can be set into action exclusively through the emitter corresponding with its built-in receiver, which means only by an authorized person. A special safety lock is thus not necessary. The post can be operated from the vehicle and, in any case from a bigger distance, so that the packing and exiting, as well as the turning into driveways and accesses is considerably easier and quicker. Car ports, which are now used more and more in modern building complexes, can be advantageously equipped so that they provide the same safety for vehicles as the heretofore known garages, which means that the posts are again raised and secured at the parking lot. Such car ports are considerably simpler and cheaper to build, so that nowadays this is the solution most likely to be selected when planning building complexes. It is possible without further ado to secure the entrance through several such car ports by posts, in order, for instance, to increase the safety of such parking places.
According to a suitable embodiment of the invention, it is provided that the post be arranged with an inclination towards the direction of access and the drive is set to lock the post in vertical position. In such an embodiment, the post is unlocked by remote control and folds down due to its own weight, so that a vehicle can pass through easily. Thereby it is suitable to provide in the ground a recess to receive the folding post, in order to obtain with the folded post a generally plane ground surface.
The drive and the control can be housed advantageously safe when, as for instance in a further embodiment of the invention, the post is a hollow bar containing the drive and the receiver, and the articulation is a hinge. In this case, the drive and the entire control device can be housed in the post, where they are safe from damages, as well as from the influence of the weath
REFERENCES:
patent: 3849936 (1974-11-01), Geraci
patent: 4416085 (1983-11-01), Lybecker et al.
patent: 4576508 (1986-03-01), Dickinson
ARMO Gesellschaft fur Bauelemente, Bau - und Wohnbedarf GmbH
Downey Kenneth
Dubno Herbert
Ross Karl F.
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