Parking apparatus

Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – Including one or more movable sites

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414232, 414236, E04H 612

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061062103

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a parking apparatus having a plurality of vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms for being lifted and lowered between a lower vehicle supporting level and an upper vehicle supporting level and arranged horizontally in a mutually parallel relationship, positioning structure for respective vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms for selectively preventing the vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms from being lowered from their upper vehicle supporting level or from being lifted from a vehicle positioning state of their lower vehicle supporting level, the positioning structure being switchable from the vehicle positioning state to a released state in which lifting or lowering if the vertically movable vehicle supporting platform is enabled, a lifting drive of the vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms, the lifting drive including a motor, and a wind-up body driven by the motor, a frame, a plurality of suspending cables suspending respective vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms, the suspending cables having one end thereof attached to the frame for pulling and releasing the other end of the cable by the wind-up body, a suspending guide wheel, a stationary guide wheel rotatably supporting the suspending guide wheel, the stationary guide wheel being rotatably supported from the frame for lifting and lowering a respective vertically movable vehicle supporting platform in cooperation with one of the positioning structure.

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