Radial vehicle parking apparatus with a plurality parking machines

An automatic high garage, comprising upright support means forming a plurality of vertically superposed parking levels;

• a plurality of pairs of parking tracks forming at each of said levels an annulus of parking spaces, the parking tracks of each pair having inner end portions and also having outer end portions facing outwardly of the respective annulus and said tracks sloping in direction towards said end portions;
• limit means at said end portions for preventing vehicles from moving beyond the latter;
• and parking means within the space defined by said annuli for parking vehicles on and retrieving them from the respective parking spaces, said parking means comprising a circular rail in said space, a central upright column, a plurality of parking machines travelling along said rail and guided by said column, each of said parking machines comprising a load table unit having a base frame and a pair of transfer tracks carried by the same and adapted to support a vehicle, each of said parking machines comprises a retrival unit for transferring vehicles between respective parking and transfer tracks, said transfer tracks extending substantially radially of said annulus and having outer ends adapted to be aligned but forming a gap with said inner end portions of respective pairs of said parking tracks for transfer of a vehicle between the respective aligned parking tracks and transfer tracks, intermediate rollers mounted to be raised into and lowered out of the respective gap, and means for raising and lowering said rollers.