Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – With means to transfer – or facilitate transfer of – vehicle...
Patent
1989-02-16
1990-12-11
Valenza, Joseph E.
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
With means to transfer, or facilitate transfer of, vehicle...
414256, 414263, E04H 600
Patent
active
049765809
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a process for the storage and removal of vehicles in a parking structure, as well as to the parking structure The structure can also be used as a storage means for other purposes.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For the solution of the parking space problem existing particularly in metropolitan areas mechanical parking devices of various shapes are known.
French Publication No. A 1 407 816 suggests a parking device with a movable platform and a transfer device in the shape of a liftable and lowerable transfer grate with grate arms extending in the longitudinal direction and movable in a transfer direction. The transfer grate is moved by means of a rope gear and the same gear also lifts and lowers it. According to this arrangement, it is necessary for the rolling surface, i.e. the floor in the area of the movable platform to have a slot allowing for the entrance of the ropes. The arms of the transfer grate are moved separately and their movements are controlled by a light barrier arrangement.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,497,087 shows a parking arrangement with a transfer device in the shape of a telescopic bogie wagon. The stations and the wagon have transverse arms consisting of over-mounted jibs (gibbets). The station and the transfer device do not have a solid floor. For the transfer of a vehicle at the deposit, storage and removal stations the telescoped bogie wagon is lifted and lowered by an elevator, the grates penetrating one another.
WO Publication No. A 86/02678 also features a parking device with transverse grates and a telecopable bogie wagon. The stations have guide rails for the wagon, but no solid floor.
AT-PS No. 246 046 shows a spiral storage system, wherein the vehicles are driven on a platform along a spiral path to the surrounding parking lots and then stored or picked up through a transfer device. It consists of a swivelable and height-adjustable gripping device which grips the front wheels of the vehicle to be moved, lifts them and moves the vehicle into or out of its parking space.
Other designs are known from the Merkblatt Stahl (information brochure steel) No. 211, "Parkbauten" (parking buildings) by the "Beratungsstelle fuer Stahlverwendung" (information center for the employment of steel), 2nd edition 1972. This reference discloses a Paternoster-elevator system which requires a large amount of time and energy, as all vehicles have to be moved for the parking and removal. Also, slide systems are described, wherein the vehicles are maneuvered from the deposit stations or entrances to elevators and from there to the parking spaces and back through gravity conveyors or conveying or hauling paths.
Another known system works with pallets, on which the vehicles are deposited for storage. The pallets are then moved to free parking spaces by means of floor conveyors. Due to the pallets this system is expensive. The system requires complicated construction and can only be realized in one-story car parks. The access time for the parking and removal of the cars is too long in all of the mentioned prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, the invention has the task of creating a possibility for the faster, cheaper and more reliable parking and removal of goods, and especially of vehicles.
According to the invention, a storage arrangement is provided with several storage, deposits and removal stations. A transport device is provided, and a transfer device is provided. The transfer device has an actuated transfer plate with a multi-armed station grate. Station grates are provided in stations. Station grates are substantially identical to the multi-armed stationed grate. The grates have counter profiles for penetrating on another such that the transfer grate may be moved into the station grate and can be lifted and lowered through them. All of the grates have arms made from box or U-profile portions which are arranged spaced a distance from one another and parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction. The arms of the transfer grate are equipped
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Bidwell James R.
Valenza Joseph E.
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