Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – Including one or more movable sites
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-22
2011-03-22
Fox, Charles A (Department: 3652)
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
Including one or more movable sites
Reexamination Certificate
active
07909558
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for the safe storage of vehicles wherein a storage structure is provided having a first section in which vehicles are stored in vertically oriented cells with each vehicle being carried within a vehicle storage unit such that the units may be stacked one upon another and wherein at least one transfer vehicle is provided for selectively engaging and conveying the vehicle storage units along an overhead grid track system between the first section and a second section wherein the grid track system is at least partially oriented over a roadway such that the at least one transfer vehicle may be used to either lift or lower a vehicle contained within a vehicle storage unit relative to the roadway and move the vehicle storage unit to and from a storage position in one of the vertical storage cells of the first section of the storage structure.
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Benedict Charles E.
Bladen Scott K.
Dobbs James R.
Lackinger Richard E.
Pfeifer Brian G.
BEC Companies, Inc.
Dowell & Dowell , P.C.
Fox Charles A
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