Revolving door lock

• US 5,711,111 A
• Filed: 05/11/1995
• Issued: 01/27/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Boon Edam Inc., Gilgen AG
• Original Assignee: Boon Edam E.V.
• Inventors: Huber, Jacob Robert Alfred, Huber, Erik Jan, Nyffenegger, Jurg
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US08/406,874
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 49/42, 49/44, 49/68, 49/93, 49/94, 49/95, 49/45, 109/6, 109/8
• US Class Current: 49/42
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/116 for sluices
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/90 Revolving doors; Cages or housings therefor turnstiles E06B11/08

Abstract

A revolving door lock is positioned on an inner space of the building and is sealed to the outside so that no heat energy is lost for nothing and hardly no draught appears. There is no need for three or four wings at the individual revolving doors so that with each revolving door more space is available for the passage with trolleys, wheel chairs, luggage and the like. Furthermore, the revolving door lock can be passed quickly, in that at each revolving door a free passage is possible since only one of the doors should effect a seal at a time, while the other one can be fully open. As a result, several persons may pass through the revolving door lock in their own speed without interfering with each other.

Claims

1. A revolving door lock having outer walls laterally defining a passage space, comprising at least two revolving doors coupled for relatively synchronous movement and each having two wings rotatable about respective vertical rotating axes of the revolving doors, with an angle of said wings of the revolving doors with respect to a line of symmetry in a longitudinal direction being an angular off-set of 90°

so that the passage space with respect to the line of symmetry also has an angular off-set of 90° and

the passage space is always closed at least on one side, wherein the rotating axes of the revolving doors are positioned at a distance which is at least about 2.25 times greater than the radius of one of the revolving doors to create an intermediate space between the revolving doors which is sufficiently large enough for a person to stand therein without interference from the revolving doors.

2. Revolving door lock according to claim 1, wherein the wings of the revolving doors are relatively pivotable back and forth about the respective rotating axis.

3. Revolving door lock according to claim 1, wherein the revolving doors are driven by means of a single motor being connected to revolving door shafts by a mechanical coupling.

4. Revolving door lock according to claim 1, wherein each revolving door is equipped with its own drive motor, the drive motors being coupled by an electric synchronizing device.

5. A revolving door lock of claim 1, wherein the passage space is further defined by a single entrance adjacent one of the revolving doors and a single exit adjacent another of the revolving doors.

6. A revolving door lock of claim 1, wherein the intermediate space is 0.75 meters in length.

7. A revolving door lock having outer walls laterally defining a passage space, comprising three or more revolving doors with at least two revolving doors coupled for relatively synchronous movement and each having two wings rotatable about respective vertical rotating axes of the revolving doors, with an angle of said wings of the revolving doors with respect to a line of symmetry in a longitudinal direction being an angular off-set of 90°

so that the passage space with respect to the line of symmetry also has an angular off-set of 90° and

the passage space is always closed at least on one side, wherein the rotating axes of the revolving doors are positioned at a distance which is greater than the sum of the radius of both revolving doors to create an intermediate space between the revolving doors which is sufficiently large enough for a person to stand therein without interference from the revolving doors;

the revolving doors being positioned between the outer walls of a larger passage space.

8. A revolving door lock having outer walls laterally defining a passage space, comprising at least two revolving doors coupled for relatively synchronous movement and each having two wings rotatable about respective vertical rotating axes of the revolving doors, with an angle of said wings of the revolving doors with respect to a line of symmetry in a longitudinal direction being an angular off-set of 90°

so that the passage space with respect to the line of symmetry also has an angular off-set of 90° and

the passage space is always closed at least on one side, wherein the rotating axes of the revolving doors are positioned at a distance which is greater than the sum of the radius of both revolving doors to create an intermediate space between the revolving doors which is sufficiently large enough for a person to stand therein without interference from the revolving doors, with a synchronizing device for each revolving door comprising an angular encoder delivering a certain number of pulses for each revolution of a respective revolving door so that a counter position indicates a rotational position of the respective revolving door, and at least one position detector for detecting at least one particular revolving position of the respective revolving door, wherein a processing unit is provided to which the angular encoder and the position detector is connected and which controls drive motors, said processing unit resets the counter position of the angular encoder to a starting position when the at least one position detector signalizes that a particular rotating position is reached, and said processing unit is adapted to allow the revolving doors to move with a synchronized adjustable speed by means of the angular encoder and the at least one position detector.

9. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, characterized in that a first position detector of the at least one position detector on one side of the revolving door lock is arranged in a fixed position relative to the respective revolving door, which is rotated 90°

with respect to a fixed position taken by a second position detector of the at least one position detector on an opposite side of the revolving door lock relative to the respective revolving door, and the processing unit controlling the drive motors such that the angular encoders indicate identical revolving door positions.

10. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, wherein, in an event that the revolving doors become out of synchronization, the processing unit brakes a leading revolving door of the revolving doors to restore synchronization.

11. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, characterized in that the processing unit monitors a presence of signals from the angular encoder and the at least one of the position detector and delivers an alarm signal if the at least one of the position detector does not deliver a signal after a revolution of the revolving doors, wherein the processing unit preferably maintains a synchronized rotation of the revolving doors at a lower speed by means of the signals from the angular encoder.

12. Revolving door lock according to claim 11, characterized in that the processing unit also delivers an alarm signal if the signal from the angular encoder disappears, wherein preferably at least the respective revolving door is stopped and released.

13. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, characterized in that, upon switching to one of a voltage of a supply line and upon resetting the processing unit, the processing unit controls the drive motors such that the revolving doors are moved to a rotational position determined by the position detector at a creeping speed, wherein, after reaching this rotational position, the processing unit accelerates and decelerates the revolving doors for a short time to determine a mass driven by the drive motors.

14. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, characterized in that an emergency stop device is provided being directly connected to the drive motors so that the emergency stop device short circuits the drive motors in case of an emergency.

15. Revolving door lock according to claim 8, characterized in that each angular encoder is coupled directly to a shaft of a respective one of the drive motors and the respective drive motor is driving the respective revolving door through a reduction gear.