Automated vehicular parking apparatus

Abstract

A parking apparatus has left and right vertical stanchions and a parking platform between the stanchions for supporting a parked vehicle. Carriages are mounted to opposite sides of the parking platform and have wheels that engage in channels formed in the stanchions so that the parking platform can be raised and lowered. The channels are configured to widen or tilt toward the bottom ends of the stanchions. These shapes of the channels near the bottom ends of the stanchions are configured relative to the carriages so that the parking platform tilts slightly forward when the parking platform is near the lowest position so that a vehicle can be driven on and off the parking platform. However, the engagement of the carriages and the stanchions cause the parking platform to tilt slightly rearward as the parking platform moves up to prevent the vehicle from rolling off the parking platform.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.