Rotatory parking apparatus with means for selectively lifting pallets fixed thereto
OwnerErnst Ewald Kuhnerinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for use in parking vehicles at a second level above a ground level parking surface. The apparatus has parking pallets for the vehicles which are rotatable around a central support column and each of which can be moved using lifting apparatus between a lower position corresponding to the ground level and an upper position corresponding to the second level. The lifting apparatus loosely engages the underside of a pallet and each pallet is connected to guide links so that the pallet moves into an inclined inwardly displaced position as it is lowered. In the upper position the pallets can be locked against vertical movement.
Claims11
Apparatus for parking motor vehicles at a second level above a ground level parking surface, comprising:
- a central support column;
- a supporting structure mounted on the column so as to be rotatable therearound;
- a plurality of parking pallets supported on the supporting structure in side-by-side circumferentially spaced positions, the pallets extending radially relative to the column;
- links interconnecting each pallet and the supporting structure whereby said pallet is movable relative to the supporting structure between a raised position and a lowered position corresponding respectively with the said second level and ground level, the pallet being slightly inclined and displaced inwards in the lowered position relative to its disposition in the raised position;
- lifting apparatus selectively engageable with the underside of each pallet and operable to effect the said movement thereof between the raised and lowered positions;
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- locking means for locking each pallet in the said raised position thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.