Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – Including one or more movable sites
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-18
2001-10-16
Bratlie, Steven A. (Department: 3652)
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
Including one or more movable sites
C414S241000, C414S253000, C414S261000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06302634
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to multitier parking lots for vehicles, in particular, to parking lots with mechanized means for movement of vehicles.
There is a well known multitier parking lot which contains rectangular elongated shaped parking platforms located on each tier an intertier elevator for delivering a vehicle to a required tier. The elevator is provided with a load-receiving platform having the same size as one parking platform, facility for horizontal movement of vehicles with the aim of placing them on the parking platforms and removing from them and a facility for changing the direction of these movements, which is accomplished in the form of a turntable. The parking platforms adjoin the turntable with their lesser sides and are oriented in radial direction relative to its center.
However, the above-described facility does not ensure sufficient efficiency of area utilization for parking due to great losses of the area (about 50%) both in the zones between adjacent parking platforms and on the turntable itself. The remaining unutilized area consists of scattered small sections, unfit for using for placing vehicles on them. The insufficient efficiency in using the area in such facilities makes such systems uneconomical in production and in the course of utilization.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a primary object of the present invention to create a multitier facility for vehicle parking wherein a load-receiving platform and parking platforms would have such shape and such relative dimensions and would be placed relative to one another in such a way, that would raise the efficiency of using the facility area and, in so doing, make it more economical in production and in the course of utilization.
This objective is carried out by providing a multitier facility for vehicle parking comprising main parking platforms located on each tier, an intertier elevator for delivering a vehicle to a required tier, this elevator having a rectangular-shaped load-receiving platform, a facility for horizontal movements of vehicles with the aim of placing them on the parking platforms and removing from them, and a facility for changing the direction of these movements. Preferably, each parking platform has a rectangular elongated shape. The main parking platforms adjoin at last two adjacent sides of load-receiving platform from inter-perpendicular directions, and the load-receiving platform has such dimensions, that at least in one of the positions of the load-receiving platform, its sides coincide over its entire length with the sides of the said main parking platforms adjoining the load-receiving platform.
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Blank Rome Comiscky & McCauley LLP
Bratlie Steven A.
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