Elevated garage
AssigneeNissei Build Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Morioka
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Abstract
An elevated garage which includes a vertical framework structure having an entrance, through which cars are introduced; a plurality of parking spaces for accommodating the cars, wherein the packing spaces are piled in vertical one or more rows; an elevator including a lift movable up and down in the framework structure, the lift being adapted to receive a pallet on which the car is placed; an expander provided on the lift, the expander being expandable toward the parking space; a shelf provided in each parking space in such a manner as to be free from the expander, the shelf being adapted to support the pallet; and a rotor for turning the car into an appropriate posture for riding on the pallet.
Claims5
An elevated garage, which comprises:
- a vertical framework structure having an entrance, through which cars are introduced and having a home position provided at the same height as said entrance;
- a plurality of parking spaces for accommodating the cars on a pallet, wherein the parking spaces are positioned in one or more columns in the framework structure;
- an elevator including lift movable up and down in the framework structure, the lift being adapted to receive and to take out said pallet on which the car is placed between said home position and said parking spaces;
- an expander provided on the lift, the expander being expandable toward the parking space substantially horizontally for delivering a pallet;
- a shelf provided in each parking space in such a manner as to be free from the expander, the shelf being adapted to support a front and rear portion of said pallet;
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- a rotor for turning the car into an appropriate posture for riding on said pallet wherein said rotor is located immediately below the elevator at said home position, and including a lifter for lifting up and down the rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.