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US 4,664,580 AGranted
Multistory parking garage
AssigneeMatex Gear and Pump
InventorNobuhito Matoba
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Abstract
A multistory parking garage has a central core defined by four vertical columns, and a plurality of pairs of columns, each pair defining a plane parallel to the plane defined by pairs of vertical columns, defined bays containing vertically spaced parking cells, each cell adapted to hold two vehicles. An elevator is contrained to move only vertically within the central core, is enterable from any of four directions, and is capable of carrying two vehicles at a time, preferably in a nose to tail orientation.
Claims4
A multistory parking garage comprising first, second, third and fourth vertical columns forming an open square,
- a plurality of pairs of columns spaced from said vertical columns, each of said pairs of columns defining a plane oriented parallel to one of the sides of the square formed by said vertical columns,
- means for producing, in conjunction with said pairs of columns, a cruciform shaped garage, said means comprising a plurality of vertically spaced pairs of joists extending from each of said pairs of columns to the corresponding vertical columns, each arm of the cruciform shape comprising a parking bay,
- a plurality of members defining, in conjunction with each of said pairs of joists, a plurality of fixed parking cells within each of said bays, said members defining the outer limits of said parking cells,
- a fixed vehicle supporting floor pan for each of the parking cells, each said floor pan being adapted to hold two vehicles by means of pairs of wheel guides extending between the inner vertical columns and the corresponding pair of outer columns,
- support means within each cell for supporting the floor pan, said support means including members extending between the pairs of joists defining the parking cell intermediate the ends thereof,
- means for providing access to vehicles within each of said cells comprising a load bearing surface extending between the innermost wheel guides;
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- means providing vehicle access to each of said bays and to each of said parking cells within said bays comprising an elevator, means for raising and lowering said elevator within the vertical space formed by said vertical columns, means including said vertical columns for limiting the movement of said elevator to vertical movement only,
- said elevator having a fixed vehicle bearing floor, said floor having first and second parallel pairs of flanged wheel guides extending across said floor in one direction, and third and fourth parallel pairs of flanged wheel guides extending across said floor in a direction at right angles to said one direction, whereby pairs of vehicles may be given simultaneous access to any cell solely through vertical movement of said elevator.
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