Automatic automobile parking garage

An automatic automobile parking garage comprising:

• a multi-story garage structure having a first array of vertically spaced automobile storage stations therein,
• each said automobile storage station comprising means for supporting an automobile, said means comprising at least one substantially horizontal beam,
• elevator means for raising and lowering an elevator base,
• a pallet on said elevator base,
• means for mounting said pallet for movement laterally of said elevator base,
• means on said elevator base for pushing a pallet off said elevator base onto a said beam, and for pulling a pallet off said beam onto said elevator base,
• a pair of horizontally spaced automobile loading stations, each automobile loading station comprising at least one horizontal beam for receiving and supporting said pallet,
• an opening between said automobile loading stations, said opening extending vertically downwardly from said automobile loading station, and said elevator base being in said vertically extending opening, and
• a hatch of size and shape to extend at least over said opening and having a means for raising and lowering said hatch including a plurality of columns extending downwardly from said hatch and having bottoms and means on said elevator base for engaging the bottoms of said columns when said elevator base reaches a predetermined position near a top of the garage, wherein said hatch is lowered to cover said opening and raised to enable an automobile on a said pallet to be loaded or unloaded between either of said pair of loading stations and said elevator base.