It relates to a full-height tandem turnstile combined with a passage device for bicycles, with a locking element mounted so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation, which has wings extending from the axis of rotation, preferably at the same angle to one another, made of lattice bars arranged one above the other at a distance, with a guide element extending peripherally to the rotation circle of the locking element at a circumferential angle corresponding approximately to the angle between adjacent locking element wings, with a small locking rake on the side facing away from the guide element extending into the rotation circle of the locking element, made of lattice bars arranged one above the other at a height offset from the lattice bars of the locking element wings, allowing the unhindered rotation of the locking element, and with a subsequent one arranged on the side facing away from the locking element, which can be opened and closed by means of at least one door element. Passageway for the carriage of bicycles.
The full-height tandem turnstile systems are often used to secure the outside of company premises and are integrated into the surrounding fences, walls or other enclosures, but are also used for access control in buildings.
Such tandem full height turnstile system is described in a company brochure of the applicant, the barrier element, which can be rotated about a vertical axis, consists of a revolving door with three wings, each offset from one another by a circumferential angle of approximately 120°, and on one side of the passage there is a circular arc-segment-shaped barrier, which also extends over a circumferential angle of approximately 120°. The arrangement is such that, if the barrier element is symmetrical to the barrier, there are at most gaps between the ends of the barrier and the ends of the barrier element wings of a size that do not allow people to pass through.
The barrier on the other side of the passageway that accommodates the security turnstile system is a so-called comb rake, which also consists of spaced-apart bars arranged one above the other, which reach almost to the axis of rotation of the barrier element. These bars are offset from the bars of the barrier element wings and arranged in such a way that when the barrier element rotates about its vertical axis, the bars of the wings can pass unhindered between adjacent bars of the barrier designed as a com brake.
This previously known full height electric turnstile system can be equipped with a simple reverse lock or with an electromechanical lock for the locking element designed as a cannoy turnstile and can therefore be accessed in one direction or in two directions. In this respect, this turnstile system can be used equally as an entry or exit lock, but can also be used as a combined entry and exit lock 5.
In recent times, the problem has increasingly arisen that people with bicycles want to enter company premises secured with an access security solution. Since a security gate turnstile is not suitable for the passage of a bicycle, it has been proposed to arrange another cage-like gate turnstile next to the security turnstile barrier gate, the dimensions of which are adapted to the size of a bicycle. Doors are arranged on both sides of this bicycle gate, which can only be opened if the other door is closed and locked. In addition, one of the doors can be equipped with an electronic lock, which only allows the door to be opened after electronic confirmation of access authorization.
The disadvantage of the subject matter is the cumbersome handling. A bicycle to be locked must first be placed in the cage-like bicycle lock and its access door must be closed before the person carrying the bicycle can pass through the gate. The exit door of the bicycle lock must then be opened, the bicycle removed and the door closed again. This procedure is extremely laborious and time-consuming for the user, and therefore significantly limits the capacity of such a bicycle lock.
The object is therefore to improve a full-height cannoy turnstile system in such a way that bicycles can be easily transported if necessary, but at the same time uncontrolled passage of people is not possible in any turnstile position
This object is achieved in that the guide element in the turnstile system according to the preamble of claim 1 is only approximately waist-high, whereby it is possible for a person passing through the automatic turnstile system to carry a bicycle in the passageway.
The full height turnstile gate system differs from the prior art in that it has an additional passageway for carrying bicycles, which can be closed or opened by means of a door element that can be operated between a closed position and an open position and is arranged adjacent to the pedestrian passage. In view of the fact that the guide element arranged between this additional passageway and the pedestrian passage is only waist-high, a person passing through the turnstile system can reach over the guide element and, with the door element in the open position, take a bicycle through the additional passageway when passing through the system.
Although the design of the door element that can be operated between a closed and an open position is largely irrelevant for achieving the intended purpose of the invention, it has proven to be useful in the interest of a simple system structure if the door element that optionally opens or closes the passageway for carrying bicycles is designed as a swing door that can be pivoted about a vertical axis between its open and closed positions. The swing door should advantageously be pivoted with its edge facing away from the locking element.
According to another useful development, the door element is equipped with an electromechanical lock and/or a motor drive for operating from the closed position to the open position and vice versa. This motor drive is expediently an electric motor drive.
According to another development, the turnstile system according to the invention is characterized by a sensor system which responds to a bicycle carried by a person passing through the system for controlling the unlocking of the electromechanical lock and/or the motor drive for actuating the door element.
This sensor system for controlling the lock release and/or the door element drive can be an induction loop, but also a light barrier.
Finally, a further development of the full height pedestrian turnstile provides that the passageway for carrying bicycles is provided with guard rails close to the ground, which are arranged in the direction of passage at a distance from one another that allows a path for the bicycle wheels. The distance between the guard rails, which run essentially parallel to one another, should be such that bicycle wheels with standard tires can easily pass between the guard rails, but wheels with a larger width cannot fit between the guard rails.
The latter development has also proven to be useful if the ends of the guard rails are flared out towards the side facing away from the roadway and form funnel-shaped threading sections that enable quick and easy threading or centering of the bicycle wheels when inserting them into this additional passageway.
As an alternative to the above-mentioned developments, another design of the turnstile system can also be characterized in that the additional passageway for carrying bicycles is designed as a lock with door elements arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of passage.
In this design, the length of the lock forming the bicycle passage between its door elements should be expediently greater than the length of normal bicycles, so that when a bicycle passes through, it can be completely brought into the lock with the door element on the access side open and, for example, after the door element on the access side has been closed, the door element on the exit side can only be opened and the bicycle can thus be led out of the lock again.
In this alternative design, the guide element arranged between the pedestrian passage and the bicycle passage extends essentially over the entire length of the lock so that a person passing through the turnstile system can easily push a bicycle through the lock by reaching over the guide element on top.
An embodiment will be explained below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Schematic views show:
Fig.1 a full-height tandem turnstile system with a barrier element designed as a three-wing revolving door, with a guide element extending over a predetermined circumferential area of the revolving door turning circle, which limits the passage of people on one side and with a passage for carrying bicycles arranged adjacent to the barrier element on the side of the guide element facing away from it and which can be opened and closed as required by means of a swing door, in a front view.
Fig.2 a top view of the full-height tandem turnstile system according to Fig.1 with the swing door in the closed position and thus the bicycle passage blocked.
Fig.3 in a view like in Fig.2 the tandem full-height turnstile gate system with the swing door in the open position and thus the bicycle passage clear.
Fig.4 in a view as in Fig.2 a tandem turnstile system with three-wing revolving door and a bicycle passage designed as a lock, which extends between two swing doors spaced apart in the direction of passage, and
Fig.5 the automatic turnstile system according to Fig.4 with one swing door of the bicycle passage in the open position and with the other swing door in the closed position.
In the full-height tandem turnstile 10 illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, on one side of an opening formed between only indicated side posts 11, 11′ in a fence enclosing an area, which is of no further interest here, a circular arc-segment-shaped boundary 12 with a barrier 13 is arranged immediately adjacent to the post 11, which essentially consists of horizontally running bars. This boundary, which points with its open side to the post 11 bordering the fence opening on the other side, consists of a surrounding framework and vertical bars accommodated in it. The boundary 12 extends over a circumferential angle of approximately 120° and the bars forming the barrier 13 are arranged one above the other at a distance and each extend enclosing an angle of approximately 120°between the side frame parts of the circular arc segment-shaped boundary 12.
The full height turnstile gate system also has a revolving door 14 with three wings 15 as a rotating barrier element, which is mounted so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis 16 arranged in the center of the circular arc-segment-shaped boundary 13. The turnstile wings 15 each extend at an angle of approximately 120° from the axis of rotation 16 of the revolving door and also consist of spaced-apart grid bars arranged one above the other.
The bars forming the locking rake 13 extend into the turning circle 17 of the revolving door 14 and reach almost as far as its axis of rotation 16, namely between the bars forming the revolving door leaves. This ensures that the revolving door 14 cannot rotate without being hindered by the bars of the locking rake 13, as shown in particular in Fig.1.
On the side of the axis of rotation 16 of the revolving door 14 facing away from the circular arc segment-shaped boundary 12, a guide element 18 is arranged immediately adjacent to the circle of rotation 17, which also extends over a circumferential angle of approximately 120°. The guide element is arranged and dimensioned in terms of its circumferential extent so that, depending on the rotational position of the revolving door 14, there is always a revolving door leaf 15 in the area of the guide element or that two revolving door leaves extend to the ends of the guide element, whereby the gaps that then appear between the ends of the revolving door leaves and the guide element do not allow people to pass through.
The actual passage for people extends between the guide element 18 and the rotation axis 16 of the revolving door 14. In the rotation position of the revolving door 14 shown in Fig. 2 and 3, people can enter the lock room and pass through the turnstile system while simultaneously rotating the revolving door 14. The revolving door can rotate freely after a known unlocking, and can therefore be moved to the right and left. The turnstile system therefore provides access and exit control. The arrows 19, 19′ shown in Fig. 2 and 3 indicate that it can be accessed in both directions.
The bicycle passage 20 adjacent to the pedestrian passage extends between the guide element 18 and the adjacent post 11′ of the fence into which the turnstile system 10 is integrated. A swing door 22 that can be pivoted about a vertical axis 21 is hinged to this post and extends almost as far as the guide element. This swing door consists of a frame and vertical bars between the upper and lower frame parts. The swing door 22 extends approximately over two-thirds of the height of the full-height tandem turnstile and the space above the swing door is equipped with a fixed grille 23 that extends almost as far as the turning circle of the three-winged revolving door 14 and also consists of a framework with vertical bars.
The guide element 18 which limits the passage of people on the side facing the bicycle passage 20 extends only over about a third of the height of the turnstile and is therefore designed to be about waist-high in relation to adults. If a person carrying a bicycle wants to pass through the turnstile, the revolving door 14 must be unlocked in a known manner and the swing door 22 which blocks the bicycle passage must be operated into the open position as shown in Fig. 3. The revolving door can be unlocked, for example, using a code card which can be inserted into a locking device, while the unlocking and operation of the swing door can be controlled using a sensor which responds to a bicycle carried by the person passing through the turnstile. For example, this can be a known induction loop, but also a light barrier.
While a person authorized to pass through the pedestrian passageway while the revolving door is rotating, they can reach over the waist-high guide element and push a bicycle they are carrying through the open bicycle passage. After passing through the passageway, the revolving door is locked again in the usual way and a sensor system triggers the swing door to close.
In order to prevent unauthorized transport through the bicycle passage 20, guard rails 24, 24′ are arranged on the floor of this additional passageway, spaced apart from one another in the direction of passage. The distance between the guard rails is such that the wheels of bicycles can be guided between the guard rails without obstruction. To facilitate threading or centering of bicycles, the guard rails have outwardly positioned bends at their ends, which form funnel-shaped narrowing threading sections. In addition, proximity sensors 25, 25′ arranged on the guard rail 24 for controlling the swing door operation are indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.
The turnstile system illustrated in Figs.4 and 5 differs from the embodiment according to Figs. 1 to 3 in particular in that the additional passageway for bicycles is designed as a lock 120 with a swing door 122, 122′ on the entrance and exit sides, as well as a guide element 118 extending over the entire length of the lock and a barrier 118′ running parallel to it and also extending over the entire length of the lock on the other side.
The swing doors can be pivoted about vertical articulation axes 121, 121′ between their closed positions and open positions. In Fig.4, the swing doors are shown in solid lines in their closed positions 10 and in dashed lines in their possible open positions, while in Fig.5 the swing door 120 shown in solid lines is in the open position and is indicated in dashed lines in the closed position, whereas the swing door 122′ is shown in solid lines in the closed position and in dashed lines in a possible open position.
Viewed in the direction of passage, the distance between the swing doors 122, 122′ is greater than the length of normal bicycles, so that such bicycles can be accommodated in the area between the swing doors of the lock 120. The guide element 118, unlike the guide element 18 in the embodiment according to Figs. 1 to 3, is designed to be straight and extends over the entire length of the lock, just like the barrier 118′ on the other side. Furthermore, in the embodiment according to Figs. 4 and 5, analogous to the grid 23 in the first embodiment, a barrier (not shown in the drawing) is provided above the lock.
The swing doors 122, 122′ of the lock 120 forming the bicycle passage should be controlled in such a way that when a bicycle approaches the swing door 122, for example, it goes into the open position shown in Fig. 5, while the other swing door 122′ remains in its closed position. Only when a bicycle is completely pushed into the lock 120 and the swing door 122 goes into the closed position is the other swing door 122′ actuated into its open position and thus clears the way to leave the lock, in order to then be actuated back into its closed position in the known manner.
1. A full height tandem turnstile combined with a passage device for bicycles, with a blocking element (14) which is rotatably mounted about a vertical axis of rotation and which has wings (15) which extend away from the axis of rotation (16) and are made of lattice bars arranged at a distance from one another, preferably at the same angle from one another, with a guide element (18) which extends peripherally to the circle of rotation of the blocking element (14) at a circumferential angle which corresponds approximately to the angle between adjacent blocking element wings (15), and with a small blocking rake (13) which extends into the circle of rotation of the blocking element (14) on the side facing away from the guide element (18) and into the circle of rotation of the blocking element (14), made of lattice bars of the blocking element wings (15) which are spaced apart from one another and offset in height from the lattice bars of the arranged bars that allow the unhindered rotation of the locking element (14), and with a passageway (20120) for carrying bicycles, arranged on the side facing away from the locking element (14), which can be opened and closed by means of at least one door element (22), characterized in that the guide element (18) is only approximately waist-high, whereby it is possible for a person passing through the turnstile system to carry a bicycle in the passageway.
2. Tandem full-height turnstile system according to claim 1, characterized in that the door element which selectively opens or closes the passageway (20, 120) for the carriage of bicycles is a swing door (22, 122, 122′) which is pivotably articulated about a vertical axis (21, 121, 121) between an open position and a closed position.
3. Full height tandem turnstile system according to claim 2, characterized in that the swing door (22, 122) is pivotably articulated with its edge facing away from the locking element (14).
4. Full height tandem turnstile according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the door element (22, 122, 122′) is equipped with an electromechanical lock and/or a motor drive for actuation from the closed position to the open position and vice versa
5. Full height tandem turnstile according to claim 4, characterized by a sensor system (25, 25) responsive to a bicycle carried by a person passing through the system for controlling the unlocking of the electromechanical lock and/or the motor drive for actuating the door element (22, 122, 122′).
6. Automatic type pedestrian full height turnstile according to claim 5, characterized in that the sensor system for controlling the lock release and/or the door element drive is an induction loop
7. Automatic electric full height turnstile entrance gate according to claim 5, characterized in that a light barrier serves as a means for controlling the lock release and/or the door element drive.
8. Full height single turnstile pedestrian gate according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the passageway (20) for carrying bicycles is provided with guard rails (24.24′) close to the ground, which are arranged in the passageway direction at a distance from one another that clears a path for the wheels of bicycles.
9. Motorized full height turnstile according to claim 8, characterized in that the ends of the guard rails (24, 24′) are each extended towards the side facing away from the travel path and form funnel-shaped threading sections.
10. Full height tandem turnstile according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the additional passageway for carrying bicycles is designed as a lock (120) with door elements arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of passage
11. Full height tandem turnstile according to claim 10, characterized in that the length of the lock (120) forming the bicycle passage between its door elements (122, 122′) is greater than the length of normal bicycles.
12. Full height tandem turnstile according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that the guide element (118) arranged between the pedestrian passage and the bicycle passage extends essentially over the entire length of the lock (120).
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