Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – Carrier-facility-site relationship
Patent
1993-05-27
1995-12-26
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
Carrier-facility-site relationship
414263, 414257, E04H 628
Patent
active
054781825
ABSTRACT:
In an automatic parking garage with a storage silo having a circular periphery, the storage silo having a cylindrical inner shaft and including a plurality of radially positioned parking compartments opening toward the inner shaft on a plurality of stacked parking levels and with a conveying apparatus located in the inner shaft for the transportation of vehicles between at least one entrance and the parking compartments and between the parking compartments and at least one exit, the conveying apparatus including a plurality of vehicle-receiving transport surfaces which are moveable in the vertical direction and are rotatable together in a horizontal direction about a central axis, such that the transport surfaces can be positioned by vertical movement at the level of one of the parking floors, or the at least one entrance, or the at least one exit, and then, by rotation about the central axis, adjacent one of the parking compartments in the corresponding parking level: the transport surfaces as well as the parking compartments and the at least one entrance and exit are positioned radially with respect to the central axis in order to attain a saving of space, simple construction, safe running, and above all a fast vehicle turnover.
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Hildebrand Fritz
Wernli Ulrich
Gordon Stephen
Huppert Michael S.
Schenk Interservice AG
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