High-rise automated garage
OwnerSidney I. Belinskyinventor
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Abstract
A High-rise Automated Garage (HAG) for offstreet parking consists of up to 40 stories (levels) car storage structure and a bank of elevators in the middle of this structure. Elevators are oriented along the garage and can pick-up cars from a flat driveway along the garage. Car handling carriages of the elevators can lift cars as cargo, using their wheels as the pick-up points, and move them horizontally into elevator's platform. In the case of one elevator failure, cars parked in the zone served by this elevator can be relocated by attendants into the zone served by an operating elevator, thus providing the capability of returning cars to the owners in a reasonable time. HAG has two loading (unloading) lanes. This allows an increase in the driver time for arriving and releasing the car to two elevators' cycles.
Claims5
A high-rise automated garage for storing cars, said garage comprising:
- two multi-level towers with open stalls, said towers each having an open side, said open sides facing each other and interconnected by a stationary elevator system, said stalls arranged on each level of said towers in a single longitudinal line;
- said open stalls on an operating level having means for separating drivers and their passengers from moving cars and elevator platforms;
- said stationary elevator system having plurality of stationary elevators, each elevator serving one stall on each level of each of said two towers, said stationary elevators comprising platforms which include car handling carriages, said platforms formed with beams as a rectangular box with open sides,
- said car handling carriages comprising:
- a frame formed as two outer vertical beams, two inner vertical beams and upper and lower horizontal beams interconnecting said two inner vertical beams and said two outer vertical beams;
- a pair of sliders attached to said upper horizontal beam;
- a pair of support rollers attached to said lower horizontal beam;
- a first wheel grabber system for grabbing front wheels of a parked car, and a second wheel grabber system for grabbing the rear wheels of the parked car, each of said wheel grabber systems including two sliding columns and means for moving said sliding columns simultaneously in a transverse direction, each sliding column having an upper longitudinal slider engaging said upper horizontal beam, a lower longitudinal slider engaging with said lower horizontal beam, an athwart oriented bushing, and a wheel-engager inside said bushing;
- means for simultaneously changing the positions of said wheel-engagers with respect to all of said sliding columns, and
- means for moving the car handling carriage from one side of its respective platform to the other side of its platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.