Storage system with adjacent lockers controlled by a microprocessor device

Claim 1

A storage system used in railway stations or airports comprising a plurality of adjacent lockers which are each one closed by a door; a microprocessor device connected through the medium of a device with input/output interfaces to locks for opening and shutting doors of the lockers; wherein said microprocessor device is also connected to a keyboard-displaying screen unit so as to enable an attendant located at a receiver desk to record the identity such as the surname, the identity card number or the passport number of a user presenting himself to the receiver position and to assign to the identity of the user a free locker number and an hourly slice of engagement of the locker while at the same time the user pays to the attendant the amount of the rent of the locker assigned to the user; to a dispensing device delivering to the user a ticket with a magnetic track into which are stored in encoded form at least the number of the assigned locker, the identity of the user and the hourly slice of engagement of the locker assigned to the user; and to a device for receiving and reading the ticket associated with each locker so that a reading device is associated with each locker; the reading device associated to the free or engaged locker assigned to the user and having received the ticket of the latter is transmitting the information relating to the number of the locker, the identity of the user and said hourly slice of engagement of the assigned locker stored into the ticket to the microprocessor device which would check whether this information corresponds actually to the locker number assigned to the user and the locker assigned to the user is allocated within said hourly slice of engagement and which in the affirmative would operate directly the unbolting of the lock of the door of the locker assigned to the user who is depositing therein or recovering therefrom at least one personal object; said reading device is giving back to the user his ticket after deposit of his personal object into the locker; and wherein the locker door is returned into shut position by a resilient biasing member and the microprocessor device is then bolting the lock of the locker door.