EP0877352B1 - Mécanisme de contrôle, en particulier pour dispositifs de présentation d'information à planches interchangeables - Google Patents

Mécanisme de contrôle, en particulier pour dispositifs de présentation d'information à planches interchangeables Download PDF

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EP0877352B1
EP0877352B1 EP98830274A EP98830274A EP0877352B1 EP 0877352 B1 EP0877352 B1 EP 0877352B1 EP 98830274 A EP98830274 A EP 98830274A EP 98830274 A EP98830274 A EP 98830274A EP 0877352 B1 EP0877352 B1 EP 0877352B1
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F11/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position
    • G09F11/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position the display elements being fed one by one from storage place to a display position
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F11/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position
    • G09F11/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position the display elements being fed one by one from storage place to a display position
    • G09F11/32—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position the display elements being fed one by one from storage place to a display position the feeding means comprising belts or chains, e.g. endless belts or chains

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  • the present invention relates to an control mechanism, particularly for information displayers with interchangeable boards.
  • the invention concerns a mechanism allowing the realisation of the change of the boards in a displayer of the above kind in a precise and reliable way.
  • a first kind of displayer is that one providing different horizontal elements with a triangular cross-section, that can rotate about their horizontal axis, in such a way that synchronously rotating the different faces, it is possible to modify the message visible to the public according a pre-established timed sequence.
  • this kind of device is rather limitative, since the number of messages that can be viewed is limited to three, and they can be viewed according to a rigid sequence.
  • a second kind of displayer for different images already known and available on the market is that comprising a sheet wound on a roll and upon which different messages in sequence are provided.
  • the solution described and claimed allows to provide a high number of different messages according to a casual sequence and that can be singularly replaced.
  • an information displayer with interchangeable boards comprising at least a loader of boards provided with means to take out said nth boards; means to grasp the board to be displayed; and means to bring in a display position and to bring back the same into a container, whereby said boards are selectively interchangeable, said loaders are releasably coupled to the displayer, so that they can be replaced with other ones containing different boards, in that said loaders have a stepping motion, with a number of steps corresponding to the number of boards provided, and in that the movement is obtained by a stepping motor controlled by a preprogrammed microprocessor.
  • each message sheet supporting loader being provided with a respective control mechanism which is characterized in that it comprises a hooking element moving along a vertical path between said two loaders and being operated by a first operation means to bring the message sheets into a display position and to bring said message sheets back into the loader when not on display; at least a first micro switch provided along the vertical display path of said hooking element that interacts with said hooking element and controls the stop of said first operation means ; a pulley system located on the shaft of the loader powered by a second operation means and controlled by a pre programed control means; said pulley system including a wheel provided with a number of substancially equidistant eccentric peripheral surfaces corresponding to the number of display sheets; and at least a second micro switch interacting with eccentric surfaces; whereby the preprogramed control means determines the pitch of said
  • said hooking element has two distinct zones of interference with said first microswitch, the first interference determining the slowing down of said first operation means and the second interference determining the stop of said first operation means and the start of said second operation means.
  • said hooking element provides an interference zone
  • a further microswitch being provided vertically aligned with said at least first microswitch, the first microswitch determining the slowing down of said first operation means and the further microswitch determining the stop of said first operation means and the start of said second operation means.
  • said second operation means operates a wheel rotating by a pulley couple whit a motor shaft and a transmission belt between said wheel and said pulley.
  • idle wheels can be provided to stress said transmission belt.
  • a mechanical limit switch can be provided for the motion in any direction of said wheel with eccentric surfaces.
  • said mechanical limit switch provides a slider movable in a substantially transverse direction, thrusted in a first direction by the interaction of a shaped tongue having a pin, provided on the same slider, the number of pins corresponding to the number of eccentric surfaces, up to the interference with a further microswitch, substantially provided aligned with said second microswitch, the stroke in this direction being delimited by a mechanical stop, and returned, in the opposite direction, following to the inversion of the rotation direction of the pulley with eccentric surfaces, by return elastic means.
  • the movements of said first and second operation means are controlled by control programmable electronic means.
  • FIG. 1 Referring first to figures 1 and 2 of the enclosed drawings, it is shown an image displayer 1 with interchangeable boards.
  • Image displayer 1 comprises two loaders 2 and 3, respectively upper and lower, each bearing four wound boards 4. Obviously the number of the boards 4 can also be different.
  • Said displayer further provides a dragging mechanism 5 to which a board of the lower loader 3 and a board 4 of the upper loader 2, which are respectively brought into exposition and wound again about the loader and vice versa.
  • the hooking mechanism 5 When the board 4 to be displayed is completely extracted from its roll, the hooking mechanism 5 must hook the board of the upper loader 2 or of the lower loader 3 that will have to be then brought into exposition.
  • a reinforcement element 7 is back provided for each board 4.
  • the choose of the board 4 to be shown is controlled by a preprogrammed microprocessor, not shown, in this way allowing to have the possibility of the casual showing mentioned before.
  • displayer 1 must provide a mechanism allowing to release the board 4 previously displayed, in the position on the free loader 2 or 3 and thus rotating the loader of the sufficient angle to allow to bring the established board 4 into exposition.
  • the mechanism according to the invention is symmetrically provided both for the upper loader 2 and for the lower loader 3, so that it will be described only with reference to one of the two, on the figures being provided the same reference number.
  • microswitch 8 is provided which interferes with said hooking mechanism 5 of the boards 4.
  • a pulley 10 is provided outward the frame of the displayer 1, said pulley having peripherally four eccentric surfaces 11 (or in any case a number corresponding to the number of boards 4 provided on the loader 2 or 3) suitable to interact with a second microswitch 12.
  • Said pulley 10 is rotated by a toothed belt 13 passing between two idle wheels 14, a second pulley 15, powered by a motor (not shown) always controlled by said microprocessor.
  • the microprocessor After the signal from the stop microswitch 8 of the motor 6, the microprocessor will rotate the pulley 10 of 90°, to release the board 4 previously shown, until the following surface of the pulley interferes with the microswitch 12.
  • this solution provides a mechanical limit switch 16 for the motion of the pulley 10 provided with eccentric surfaces 11.
  • the mechanical limit switch 16 is transversely movable, until interacting with a microswitch 17, at the bottom provided aligned with said limit switch 12, in such a way to determine the inversion of the rotation of the pulley 10, once the suitable eccentric surface 11 is brought to interact with the microswitch 12.
  • the limit switch 16 provides a shaped tongue 19 which interacts with pins 20 provided on the pulley 10, offset in a way corresponding to the eccentric surfaces 11.
  • Microswitch 17 determines the inversion of the motion of the pulley 10, which will now rotate in a anticlockwise direction, bringing the following pin 20 beyond the tongue 19, sliding along the sloped surface of the tongue 19, to properly hook the following board.
  • the dragging mechanism 5 has a single interference surface, in this case two different microswitches, respectively 8 and 23 being provided, for the slowing down and the stop of the same mechanism.

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  1. Mécanisme de commande, en particulier pour des afficheurs d'informations (1) avec des feuilles de messages interchangeables, doté d'un chargeur de support de feuilles de messages supérieur (2) et d'un chargeur de support de feuilles de messages inférieur (3), chaque chargeur de support de feuilles de messages (2, 3) étant doté d'un mécanisme de commande respectif, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un élément de raccordement (5) se déplaçant le long d'une trajectoire verticale entre lesdits deux chargeurs (2, 3), et en ce qu'il est actionné par un premier moyen d'actionnement (6) pour amener les feuilles de messages (4) dans une position d'affichage et faire revenir lesdites feuilles de messages (4) dans le chargeur quand on ne se trouve pas dans une situation d'affichage ; au moins un premier microrupteur (8) prévu le long de la trajectoire d'affichage verticale dudit élément de raccordement (5) qui interagit avec ledit élément de raccordement et commande l'arrêt dudit premier moyen d'actionnement (6) ; un système de poulie (10) situé sur l'arbre du chargeur, entraíné par un deuxième moyen d'actionnement et commandé par un moyen de commande pré-programmé ; ledit système de poulie incluant une roue (14) dotée d'un certain nombre de surfaces (11) périphériques excentriques sensiblement équidistantes, correspondant au nombre de feuilles d'affichage (4) ; et au moins un deuxième microrupteur (17) qui interagit avec les surfaces excentriques (11); moyennant quoi le moyen de commande pré-programmé détermine le pas de ladite roue (14) de telle sorte que les surfaces excentriques (11) sont orientées dans une direction permettant de libérer la feuille d'affichage (4), et moyennant quoi le mouvement de ladite roue (11) est inversé jusqu'à ce que la surface excentrique (11) correspondant à une feuille de messages (4) différente, devant être montrée, interagisse avec le deuxième microrupteur (17) qui arrête le deuxième moyen d'actionnement actionnant le système de poulie, et fait démarrer le premier moyen d'actionnement qui met la nouvelle feuille de messages en position d'affichage.
  2. Mécanisme de commande selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de raccordement présente deux zones distinctes d'interférence avec ledit premier microrupteur, ladite première interférece détérminant le ralentissement dudit premier moyen d'actionnement, et la deuxième interférence déterminant l'arrêt dudit premier moyen d'actionnement et le démarrage dudit deuxième moyen d'actionnement.
  3. Mécanisme de commande selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de raccordement fournit une zone d'interférence, un autre microrupteur étant prévu en étant aligné verticalement avec ledit au moins premier microrupteur, le premier microrupteur déterminant le ralentissement dudit premier moyen d'actionnement, et l'autre microrupteur déterminant l'arrêt dudit premier moyen d'actionnement et le démarrage dudit deuxième moyen d'actionnement.
  4. Mécanisme de commande selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit deuxième moyen d'actionnement actionne une roue tournant sous l'effet d'un couple de poulie avec un arbre de moteur et une courroie de transmission entre ladite roue et ladite poulie.
  5. Mécanisme de commande selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que des roues folles sont prévues pour solliciter ladite courroie de transmission.
  6. Mécanisme de commande selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un interrupteur de fin de course mécanique est prévu pour le mouvement dans un sens quelconque de ladite roue avec les surfaces excentriques.
  7. Mécanisme de commande selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que ledit interrupteur de fin de course mécanique fournit un coulisseau mobile dans une direction sensiblement transversale, poussé dans un premier sens sous l'effet de l'interaction d'une languette profilée comportant une broche, prévue sur le même coulisseau, le nombre de broches correspondant au nombre de surfaces excentriques, jusqu'à l'interférence avec un autre microrupteur, sensiblement prévu en étant aligné avec ledit deuxième microrupteur, la course dans ce sens étant délimitée par une butée mécanique, et revenant, dans le sens opposé, suivant l'inversion du sens de rotation de la poulie avec les surfaces excentriques, sous l'effet de moyens élastiques de renvoi.
  8. Mécanisme de commande selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, sur ladite roue 3 ou 4 sont prévues des surfaces excentriques équidistantes.
  9. Mécanisme de commande selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les mouvements desdits premier et deuxième moyens d'actionnement sont commandés par des moyens de commande électroniques programmables.
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