APPARATUS FOR ENTRANCE CONTROL, MORE IN PARTICULAR FOR SPORTING EVENTS, SUCH AS FOOTBALLMATCHES

Abstract: A revolving-door with a number of partitions, fixed onto a central rotating axis (5), which in pairs enclose compartments and which may be entered or vacated through an entrance (12) or an exit (10), while means (8) are present with which at the place of the exit, the exit of an unauthorized passer may be prevented under the control of a presence-signal, which may be derived from a sensor and by which the presence of a passer in a compartment may be detected, and of an authorization-signal, which may be derived from a signal-generator, placed nearby or within a compartment and to be controlled by the passer.

Description: The present invention relates to an apparatus for entrance-control comprising a revolving door, provided with a number of partitions fixed onto a central rotating axis, which in pairs enclose compartments and which may be entered or vacated through an entrance or exit, while means are present by which the vacating of a compartment by an unauthorized passer at the exit may be prevented under control of a presence-signal, derived from a sensor, and by which the presence of a passer in a compartment may be detected, and of an authorization-signal, which may be derived from a signal-generator to be controlled by the passer, and located near the entrance or within a compartment. Such an apparatus is known from DE-B-2 427 359. In this known apparatus the means are formed by a sliding door, which may be moved from an open position to a closed position under control of a weapon sensing device, and the apparatus is more in particular intended for use in banks and the like. EP-A-0 259 522 further discloses a method and a device to prevent the passage of an unauthorized person through a revolving door by means of a presence-signal, derived from a sensor in combination with an authorization-signal. It is an object of the present invention to modify the known apparatus, so that it may be used outdoors and in particular for the entrance control for sporting events, such as football-matches. The apparatus according to the invention thereto is characterized in that the means is formed by a gate comprising an array of bars extending horizontally and protuding sideways from a supporting column and about which the gate may be rotated between a closing position at the exit , and an open or rest position in which the gate is directed to the central rotating axis ,the partitions also being formed by arrays of bars extending horizontally from the central rotating axis , and which may pass between the bars of the gate. In a preferred embodiment of the invented apparatus a second gate is placed at the entrance comprising an array of bars extending from a supporting column and directed to the central rotating axis , and which second gate forms a partition between the entrance to the compartments and an exit from the compartments for the unauthorized passers, while the bars of the partitions also may pass between the bars of this second gate. By applying the invented apparatus the checking by ticket-inspectors of the stream of spectators has become superfluous. When a spectator wishes to pass the entrance-control-apparatus, his entering the compartment of the revolving-door causes a presence-signal being emitted while by the spectator himself an authorization-signal may be produced, which may be derived from a signal-generator carried with him, or by the insertion of for instance a ticket of admission into a ticket-machine. The ticket-machine to that end may be placed near the entrance of the revolving-door or in a compartment to be occupied by the spectator. Controlling the means by the combination of the presence-signal and the authorization-signal may take place in two different ways. So it is possible, that the means, such as the gate or the door which are normally in the closed position, are brought into the open position by the arrival of an authorized passer and by whom the presence-signal as well as the authorization-signal is produced. In this embodiment of the entrance-control-apparatus, the gate or door would constantly, by the arrival of a compartment taken by a passer, be opened and to be closed again thereupon. In a favourable embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention, the open position of the gate or door is the position of rest from which, with the lacking of an authorization-signal for an occupied compartment, the gate or door at the arrival and passage of this compartment at the exit, is brought into a closed position adjacent to the course of movement of the compartments, such, that only the compartment with the unauthorized passer at the arrival and passage of the exit is closed off and the authorized passers of the other compartments may leave the compartments undisturbed at arrival at the exit. In this favourable embodiment of the entrance-control-apparatus according to the invention, a constant stream of spectators will be able to pass the apparatus constantly, while at the same time the accidental unauthorized spectator is led back to the entrance side of the apparatus by the closing off at the exit the compartment occupied by him. The invention will now be explained more closely by way of example with reference to the drawing of an embodiment. Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are schematic figures of the entrance-control-apparatus and show the passing through of an authorized person. Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 are similar figures of the entrance-control-apparatus and in which an unauthorized person is prevented from passing the apparatus. Fig. 7 is a figure of a gate and a gate-shaped partition, which may move through one another. As shown in the drawing, the apparatus is placed in between the partition 1, 2, for example a sports-ground 3 and the public road 4, and is formed by a revolving-door, in which three gate-shaped partitions 6 are mounted onto the central rotating axis 5, and which in pairs enclose compartments. Further a fixed gate 7 is placed and a gate 8 is present which is rotatable around the rotating axis 9. As shown in Fig. 7, the gates 7 and 8 and the gate-shaped partitions 6 are formed by arrays of tubes, extending horizontally, and on the one side fixed to a support such as a rotating axis or a column, or on the other side free ending, such, that the tubes of the partitions 6 may pass between the tubes of the gates 7 and 8. As shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the gate 8 is in its open or rest-position, turned towards the central rotating axis 5 and in which the compartment may be vacated at the exit, while the gate 8 in Fig. 5 anf Fig. 6 is rotated towards the closing position, in which the exit 10 is closed off. When, as shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, an authorized person 11 steps through the entrance 12 into the compartment and this turns towards the exit 10, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, in which the gate 8 remains in the open position of rest, the compartment 13 may be vacated through the open exit 10 to the sports-ground or stadium. When however, as shown in Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, an unauthorized person 11 steps into a compartment 13 through the entrance 12 and subsequently moves within this compartment 13 towards the exit 10, at the arrival at the exit 10 of the compartment 13 with the unauthorized person 12 in it, the exit 10 is closed off by rotation of the rotating gate 8 towards the closing position, causing the unauthorized person to be unable to vacate the compartment 13 occupied by him, until the compartment 13 has reached again the entrance side on the public road 4, and there is forced, by the presence of the fixed gate 7 to vacate the compartment occupied by him. After passing the exit 10 of a compartment occupied unauthorized, the rotating gate 8 returns in the open position of rest, and in which authorized passers are guided from the entrance 12 located at the public road 4 to the exit 10, and by arriving there may vacate the compartment occupied by them through the exit 10 to the sports-ground or stadium. Thus solely the compartments are closed off in front of the exit 10, which are taken by unauthorized persons, while authorized persons may pass in a constant stream through the constantly rotating revolving-door undisturbed. When a passer steps into a compartment, a presence-signal is distributed in a known manner. The authorization-signal belonging to it, causing the authorized person to be able to pass through the apparatus undisturbed from the entrance 12 to the exit 10, may be called up by the passer, by for instance insertion of a ticket into a ticket-machine (not shown in the drawing). Except for the embodiment of the application of the invented apparatus for entrance-control for sporting events given by way of example, the apparatus may also be used for any other form of entrance-control.

Claims: Apparatus for entrance-control comprising a revolving door, provided with a number of partitions (6) fixed onto a central rotating axis (5), which in pairs enclose compartments (13) and which may be entered or vacated through an entrance (12) or exit (10), while means (8) are present by which the vacating of a compartment by an unauthorized passer at the exit may be prevented under control of a presence-signal, derived from a sensor, and by which the presence of a passer in a compartment may be detected, and of an authorization-signal, which may be derived from a signal-generator to be controlled by the passer, and located near the entrance or within a compartment, characterized in that the means is formed by a gate (8) comprising an array of bars or tubes extending horizontally and protuding sideways from a supporting column (9) and about which the gate (8) may be rotated between a closing position at the exit (10), and an open or rest position in which the gate (8)is directed to the central rotating axis (5),the partitions also being formed by arrays of bars or tubes (6) extending horizontally from the central rotating axis (5) , and which may pass between the bars or tubes of the gate. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at the entrance side a second gate (7) is placed comprising an array of bars or tubes extending from a supporting column and directed to the central rotating axis (5), and which second gate forms a partition between the entrance to the compartments and an exit from the compartments for the unauthorized passers.

Inventors: HUBER, ERIK JAN, HUBER, JACOB ROBERT ALFRED
Applicants: HUBER, ERIK JAN, HUBER, JACOB ROBERT ALFRED
Application year: 1989
Main classification: E06B11
IPC codes: G07C9, E06B11