DE20013868U1 - Device for transmitting messages from the doorbell button at the entrance to living rooms or houses - Google Patents

Description

This utility model application concerns a

“Device for transmitting messages from the bell button at the entrance to living rooms or houses”

Entrances to living spaces or houses are equipped with bells or intercom systems so that visitors can let the apartment owner know they are coming. The apartment owner can also use intercom systems to communicate with the person requesting entry and decide whether to open the front door.

However, none of these systems is designed in such a way that, when the apartment owner is absent or the front door is not opened, the visitor can leave a message for the apartment owner via a microphone, e.g. the one assigned to the intercom system, on a data storage device similar to that used in telephone intercom systems, which can be accessed.

The invention addresses this problem and proposes a solution.

According to the invention, the bell system is equipped with a counter which records either the ringing sequence or the duration of the ringing, which, after an adjustable ringing frequency or duration, switches on a data recording device (2) via a time measuring device (10), which can be spoken to e.g. via a microphone loudspeaker system on request, e.g. similar to an intercom system, so that the apartment owner can later listen to the message via a loudspeaker after pressing an on/off button.

Function lights indicate the functionality of the device and the fact that there is a message on the data storage device (2). Similar to a telephone answering machine, recorded messages can be deleted from the data storage device (2).

The device can be switched on to receive messages using a power button. If an intercom system is not already installed, a microphone and loudspeaker combination (5) must be installed near the bell button (4) and connected to the mains (?) via a cable connection (3) or telecommunications. If an intercom system is present, these installations can be integrated into the message reception system.

If you already have a telephone answering machine, it can also be integrated into the system.

Possible embodiments of the invention are outlined in the two figures I and �Pgr;. Of course, all electronic time circuits commonly used today can be used to implement the circuit.

Figures I and II:

(1) is the entrance door, which is viewed from the inside of the apartment. For example, the data recording device is located next to the entrance door (1) to the apartment.

arranged which is electrically connected via telecommunications or a cable connection (3) to the bell button (4) housed, for example, in the garden doorpost (7) and the microphone-loudspeaker combination (5). (8) designates the garden gate, (6) the garden fence and (9) the sidewalk in front of the property. If the bell button (4) is pressed, the timing device (10) measures the frequency and/or duration of the ringing. After a desired period of time has elapsed or an adjustable frequency has been exceeded, the data recording device (2) uses the microphone-loudspeaker combination built into the garden post (7) to request the visitor to speak a message to the apartment owner onto the data carrier in the data recording device (2). After a set, predetermined period of time, the data recording device turns off again. If a message has been spoken into the data recording device, this is indicated to the homeowner by a signal lamp lighting up and/or a sound signal. The message can be called up and deleted from the data storage device by pressing a function key. The device can be switched on and off using a function key. The operational readiness is indicated by a control lamp. The data recording device (2) also has a display on which the number of messages spoken onto the data storage device is shown. (12) designates the power supply to the entire system and item (13) symbolizes the negative conductor in the power grid.

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Claims (3)

1. Device for transmitting messages from the bell button ( 4 ) at the entrance ( 1 ) to living rooms or houses, characterized in that a loudspeaker-microphone combination ( 5 ) is installed near the bell button ( 4 ) at the entrance ( 1 ) to an apartment or a house, which is connected via a cable or wireless connection ( 3 ) to a data recording device ( 2 ) inside the apartment, a data carrier built into the data recording device ( 2 ) which is activated with a delay by a built-in, adjustable counter or a time measuring device ( 10 ) and records messages spoken into the microphone after a visitor pressing the bell button ( 4 ) has been prompted to do so by the data carrier via the microphone-loudspeaker combination ( 5 ), and a time measuring device ( 10 ) which, after an adjustable period of time has elapsed, ends the recording readiness of the data carrier with a delay, as well as buttons and signal lights which indicate the function and the fact indicate that the disk has been discussed. 2. Device according to protection claim 1, characterized in that the functions of data recording ( 2 ) and time control (10) are taken over by the telephone answering machine. 3. Device according to protection claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the functions at the entrance in the presence of an intercom system, the message transmission loudspeaker and microphone, as well as their connection to the in-house device, the intercom system are integrated into the message recording system.