System for placing items
OwnerErwin Grogerinventor
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Abstract
A system for placing items, preferably for parking motor vehicles in a garage, comprises shiftable carrying plates, which carry the items and occupy a plurality of respective carrying plate positions arranged thoughout the available area in rows, which are transverse to each other and preferably at right angles to each other and may be disposed in a plurality of stories, if desired. The carrying plates occupy all but at least one of said carrying plate positions. Shifting means are provided for shifting each carrying plate between each carrying plate position and an adjacent one forwardly and rearwardly in the directions of said rows.
Claims4
A system for placing items, such as motor vehicles in garages, comprising
- a floor having an available area thereon that contains a plurality of carrying plate positions arranged in mutually transverse rows;
- a plurality of shiftable carrying plates for supporting the items in corresponding ones of said plurality of carrying plate positions, the number of carrying plates being selected so as to leave at least one carrying plate position unoccupied, each carrying plate having at least two sides which can respectively engage a corresponding side of other carrying plates when adjacent thereto;
- engagement means mounted on two of said carrying plate sides for lateral sliding and guiding engagement with corresponding sides of carrying plates without said engagement means when adjacent thereto;
- nozzles incorporated in said floor for discharging compressed air through said floor;
- solenoid valves connected to said nozzles such that when a solenoid valve is actuated, compressed air is selectively supplied to at least one corresponding nozzle so that a plate-carrying film of air can be selectively formed between said floor and a selected one of said plates;
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- electromagnetic means for selectively shifting each carrying plate from one carrying plate position to an adjacent one comprising a plurality of aligned, spaced apart low-reluctance slugs carried by said carrying plates, and spaced apart solenoids mounted on said floor in magnetic cooperation with said slugs such that when said solenoids are selectively energized, a travelling magnetic field is produced that attracts the slugs of a plate proximity located to the energized solenoid and shifts said plate in the direction of said travelling magnetic field.
A system for placing items, such as motor vehicles in garages, comprising
- a floor;
- nozzles for discharging compressed air incorporated in said floor;
- solenoid valves connected to said nozzles;
- a plurality of shiftable carrying plates for supporting the items in a plurality of carrying plate positions arranged in mutually transverse rows throughout the available area of said floor, the number of carrying plates being selected so as to leave at least one carrying plate position unoccupied,
- each carrying plate having two sides which are at right angles to each other and provided with upwardly and downwardly offset projections and a first roller, a second roller, and a third roller rotatably mounted in corresponding projections, and two sides of which are free from projections, said projections of each of said carrying plates extending respectively above and below adjacent carrying plates on sides thereof which are free from projections, said first roller being rotatably mounted about a verticle axis between said upwardly and downwardly offset projections and said second and said third rollers being rotatably mounted about a horizontal axis in said upwardly and downwardly offset projections, respectively;
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- electromagnetic means for shifting each carrying plate from one carrying plate position to an adjacent one comprising low-reluctance slugs carried by said carrying plates, and spaced apart solenoids mounted on said floor for cooperating with said slugs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.