Entrance-control and departure-control station for charge-related car park
AssigneeFarmont Technik GmbH & Co.
InventorHans Farmont
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Abstract
An entrance-control and departure-control station in which the return of the used car-park tickets to the entrance-side issuing apparatus is automated. The issuing apparatus of the entrance-control station are connected to one another via a car-park-ticket-return device. The car-park tickets which are to be returned are moved, in a pushed group, through a transporting duct which bridges a spatial distance between the issuing apparatus and the retrieval apparatus. In addition to the spatial distance bridged, a vertical ascent is also surmounted, in order that the retrieved car-park tickets running in under the action of gravity are brought once again to a higher level, from where they can be discharged again as required under the action of gravity during an issuing operation.
Claims60
An entrance-control and departure-control station for charge-related car parks, having an entrance-side issuing apparatus for disc-shaped car-park tickets and a departure-side retrieval apparatus for the same, having in each case one read device assigned to the issuing apparatus and to the retrieval apparatus, and having at least one control device for issuing car-park tickets to the car-park user and retrieving them from the car-park user, the issuing and retrieval apparatuses being coupled to one another via a car-park-ticket-return device which comprises a transporting duct, which guides the car-park tickets and an outlet of which adjoins the issuing apparatus, and at least one pushing device which is arranged downstream of the retrieval apparatus, and at least one ascending section of the transporting duct adjoins an outlet of the pushing device for receiving a group of car-park tickets which are located one above the other under the action of gravity and against which car-park tickets which are received by the pushing device and exert pushing movements on the respectively lowermost car-park ticket in the group can be conveyed through the transporting duct in and by means of a car-park-ticket stream, the control device switching a motor on and off in a stepwise manner for actuating the pushing device in dependence on the issuing of one or more car-park tickets.
An entrance-control and departure-control station for charge-related car parks, having an entrance-side issuing apparatus for disc-shaped car-park tickets and a departure-side retrieval apparatus for the same, having in each case one read device assigned to the issuing apparatus and to the retrieval apparatus, and having at least one control device for issuing car-park tickets to the car-park user and retrieving them from the car-park user, the issuing and retrieval apparatuses being coupled to one another via a car-park-ticket-return device which comprises a transporting duct, which guides the car-park tickets and an outlet of which adjoins the issuing apparatus, and at least one pushing device which is arranged downstream of the retrieval apparatus, and at least one ascending section of the transporting duct adjoins an outlet of the pushing device for receiving a group of car-park tickets which are located one above the other under the action of gravity and against which car-park tickets which are received by the pushing device and exert pushing movements on the respectively lowermost car-park ticket in the group can be conveyed through the transporting duct in and by means of a car-park-ticket stream, said pushing device comprises a driving plate with a supply container positioned thereon, the driving plate comprising a rotatable car-park-ticket-intercepting and driving disc which conveys the car-park tickets separately along a curved guide path ending with a discharge section into the transporting duct, the car-park-ticket-intercepting and driving disc comprises a perforated disc with a plurality of concentrically arranged holes, the hole diameter slightly exceeding the diameter of the car-park tickets, and the perforated disc having, on its rear side facing the guide path, guide webs which project around each hole in a mouth-like manner and have a border-side mouth opening for discharging a car-park ticket, and there being provided between two mouth openings border-side guide webs which, when the perforated disc rotates, push into the transporting shaft those car-park tickets which have dropped through one of the holes into the guide path, which are guided along the latter by means of the perforated disc and can be discharged through the mouth opening.
An entrance-control and departure-control station for charge-related car parks, having an entrance-side issuing apparatus for disc-shaped car-park tickets having an identification element with a selectable code and a departure-side retrieval apparatus for the same, having in each case one read device assigned to the issuing apparatus and to the retrieval apparatus, and having at least one control device for issuing car-park tickets to a car-park user and retrieving them from the car-park user, the issuing and retrieval apparatuses being coupled to one another via a car-park-ticket-return device, said retrieval apparatus distinguishing between car-park tickets which are authorized for departure and those which are not authorized for departure by reading said identification element and directing the tickets for not authorized departure to a reject device while tickets for authorized departure are guided to said car-park-ticket-return device which comprises a transporting duct, which guides the car-park tickets and an outlet of which adjoins the issuing apparatus, and at least one pushing device which is arranged downstream of the retrieval apparatus, and at least one ascending device for receiving a group of car-park tickets which are located one above the other under the action of gravity, the pushing device receiving car-park tickets and exerting pushing movement on the lowermost car-park ticket in the group, which lower-most car-park ticket is conveyed through the transporting duct by means of a car-park-ticket stream.
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