CN111441633A - Lifting mechanism and parking device composed of same - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a lifting mechanism and a parking device composed of the same, wherein the lifting mechanism comprises a support frame, n lifting platforms, n-1 driving parts and m strip-shaped lifting parts, wherein m and n are positive integers more than or equal to 2; the front end and the rear end of the supporting frame are open; the n lifting platforms are all arranged in the support frame; a rotating shaft horizontally arranged along the front-back direction is respectively arranged between every two adjacent lifting platforms, and each rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame; the m pieces of lifting are arranged in the support frame at intervals in the front-back direction, two ends of each lifting piece are respectively connected with the left side and the right side of the upper end of the support frame, m first guide pieces are installed in the middle of the upper end of each lifting platform at intervals in the front-back direction, m second guide pieces are fixedly installed on each rotating shaft at intervals in the front-back direction, and the middle of each lifting piece sequentially bypasses the corresponding first guide pieces and the corresponding second guide pieces in a wave shape along the left-right direction. The lifting device is simple in structure and convenient to lift.

Description

Lifting mechanism and parking device composed of same

Background

The existing vertical lifting parking equipment generally adopts the layout of a left parking space, a right parking space and a middle shaft, the occupied space at least needs three parking space areas, the parking space cannot be realized when meeting a long and narrow space, meanwhile, a general lifter serves 40-50 parking spaces, and the equipment storing and taking efficiency depends on the performance of the lifter. When the vehicle is stored and taken, the elevator can only carry out the next storage and taking process after the previous storage and taking action is finished, the vehicle is usually queued at the entrance and exit, the customer experience is poor, and the storage and taking efficiency is low.

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides a device with a multi-platform interlocking lifting mechanism, which solves the problem of low efficiency of the lifting machine, and at the same time, the platform with a rotating and traversing mechanism is used for the access of the access vehicles, so as to ensure the continuous operation of the access operation in and out of the warehouse.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above technical problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a lifting mechanism which has a simple structure and can realize synchronous and opposite lifting of at least two lifting tables.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: a lifting mechanism comprises a supporting frame, n lifting platforms, n-1 driving pieces and m strip-shaped lifting pieces, wherein m and n are positive integers greater than or equal to 2;

the support frame is arranged along the left and right direction, and the front end and the rear end of the support frame are open;

the n lifting platforms are horizontally arranged in the support frame and are distributed in the support frame at intervals along the left-right direction;

when n is 2, a rotating shaft horizontally arranged along the front-back direction is arranged between the two lifting platforms, the rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame, the driving piece is installed at the upper end of the supporting frame, and the driving end of the driving piece is in transmission connection with the rotating shaft;

when n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, a rotating shaft horizontally arranged in the front-back direction is arranged between every two adjacent lifting platforms respectively, each rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame, the driving pieces correspond to the rotating shafts one by one, and the driving pieces are installed at the upper end of the supporting frame and are in transmission connection with the corresponding rotating shafts respectively;

the m lifting pieces are arranged in the support frame at intervals in the front-back direction and are positioned above the plurality of lifting platforms, two ends of each lifting piece are respectively connected with the left side and the right side of the upper end of the support frame, m first guide pieces are arranged in the middle of the upper end of each lifting platform at intervals in the front-back direction, m second guide pieces are fixedly arranged on each rotating shaft at intervals in the front-back direction, the m lifting pieces, the m first guide pieces on each lifting platform and the m second guide pieces on each rotating shaft respectively correspond to each other in the front-back direction, and the middle of each lifting piece sequentially and in the left-right direction sequentially winds around the corresponding first guide piece and second guide piece in a wave shape;

when n is 2, the driving piece drives the rotating shaft to rotate when running, and drives the two lifting tables to synchronously move in different directions through the lifting piece;

when n is 3, one of the two driving pieces is selected to operate, the driving piece drives the corresponding rotating shaft to rotate, and the two lifting tables positioned at two sides of the rotating shaft are driven by the lifting piece to synchronously move in different directions;

when n is a positive integer larger than 3, at least one driving piece operates, any two adjacent driving pieces cannot operate synchronously, the driving piece in an operating state drives the corresponding rotating shaft to rotate, and the two lifting tables on two sides of the rotating shaft are driven by the lifting piece to synchronously move in different directions.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: its simple structure drives the pivot corotation or reversal through the driving piece so that rise and hang the piece and increase and the opposite side subtracts the weak point on the length one side of pivot both sides to make the elevating platform of next-door neighbour pivot both sides one rise and another descend, and when the quantity of elevating platform was greater than two, then all the other elevating platforms remain static, and when the driving piece was two or more, avoided two adjacent driving piece synchronous drive to avoid the two to pull mutually and hang the piece, lead to appearing the potential safety hazard.

In the technical scheme, the driving piece is a brake motor.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: when the driving piece stops rotating, the driving piece can be prevented from rotating under the action of the gravity of the lifting platform, so that the lifting platform can be lifted by itself.

In the technical scheme, the hoisting part is a rope, the first guide part and the second guide part are grooved wheels, and the rope winds the second guide part for a plurality of turns and then winds the adjacent first guide part; or the hoisting piece is a strip-shaped chain, the first guide piece and the second guide piece are chain wheels matched with the chain, the first guide piece is rotatably arranged on the lifting platform, and each chain is meshed with the first guide piece and the second guide piece which are bypassed by the chain respectively.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: the rope guide device is simple in structure, the rope is wound on the second guide piece for multiple circles, the rope can be prevented from sliding on the second guide piece, and meanwhile the height of the lifting platforms on the two sides of the rope can be smoothly adjusted under the driving of the rotating shaft.

In the technical scheme, the lifting platform is a square frame with an open front end and a closed lower end.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: the front end and the rear end of the lifting platform can be used as the inlet and the outlet of the lifting platform, so that vehicles can enter and exit conveniently.

The second purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking device which is convenient for parking and taking out vehicles and has small floor space.

In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: a parking device comprises two parking frames arranged at intervals along the front-back direction and the lifting mechanism, wherein the lifting mechanism is clamped between the two parking frames, the two parking frames are of a multi-layer structure, each layer is provided with n compartments along the left-right direction, the n compartments of each layer are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the n lifting platforms, the front end and the rear end of each lifting platform can be communicated with any layer of the compartments corresponding to the front layer and the rear layer of each lifting platform in the lifting process, one side of each compartment close to the lifting mechanism is opened, the n compartments of the first layer of one parking frame are used as transition parking spaces and are communicated with each other, one side of at least one transition parking space, which is far away from the lifting mechanism, is opened to form a vehicle entrance of the parking device, and the rest compartments of the parking frames and all the compartments of the other parking frames are used as parking spaces, the vehicle enters any one transition parking space from the vehicle entrance and exit and reaches any one parking space corresponding to the vehicle entrance and exit from the corresponding vehicle entrance and exit by the corresponding lifting platform, or the vehicle is conveyed to the corresponding transition parking space by the corresponding lifting platform in the parking space and exits from the corresponding vehicle entrance and exit.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: the parking device has the advantages of simple structure, large parking capacity, small occupied area and convenient parking and taking.

The technical scheme includes that the vehicle lifting device further comprises n first carriers, the n first carriers correspond to the n lifting tables one by one, and each first carrier is respectively installed in the corresponding lifting table and used for carrying a vehicle from any one of the corresponding compartments into the lifting table or from the lifting table into the compartment.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: so can realize the vehicle and carry the vehicle to the elevating platform by transition parking stall through first carrier at the parking in-process, carry to the parking stall by the elevating platform again, and whole process is then opposite when getting the car, and whole parking gets the car in-process promptly and need not artifical intervention, only need the driver with the vehicle by outer in driving transition parking stall or from transition parking stall to drive out can.

In the above technical solution, when n is greater than or equal to 3, an opening is formed at one end of any one of the intermediate parking spaces, which is away from the lifting mechanism, to form the vehicle entrance.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: this allows multiple transition stops to share a single vehicle doorway.

The technical scheme also comprises a transverse moving rotary carrier which is embedded in the transition parking space with an opening at the front side and used for rotating the vehicle by 180 degrees and transversely conveying the vehicle to any one of the rest transition parking spaces.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that: the vehicles entering the transverse moving rotary carrier are rotated by 180 degrees and transversely moved to any transitional parking space for parking or are carried to the transitional parking space with a vehicle access through the transitional parking space.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a lifting mechanism according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial side view of the lifting mechanism of embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a lifting mechanism according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the lifting mechanism according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a parking apparatus according to embodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the parking apparatus according to embodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a layout diagram of a non-first layer of a parking apparatus according to embodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of the elevating platform according to embodiment 3 of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a layout diagram of a first layer of the parking apparatus according to embodiment 3 of the present invention.

In the figure: 1 lifting mechanism, 11 supporting frames, 111 supporting walls, 112 cross beams, 12 lifting platforms, 121 first guide parts, 122 first carriers, 13 driving parts, 14 lifting parts, 15 rotating shafts, 151 second guide parts, 2 jiffy stands, 21 compartments and 3 transverse moving rotary carriers.

Detailed Description

The principles and features of this invention are described below in conjunction with the drawings and the embodiments, which are set forth to illustrate, but are not to be construed to limit the scope of the invention.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a lifting mechanism, which includes a supporting frame 11, n lifting platforms 12, n-1 driving members 13, and m strip-shaped lifting members 14, where n is 2;

the support frame 11 is arranged along the left-right direction, and the front end and the rear end of the support frame are open;

the n lifting platforms 12 are all horizontally arranged in the support frame 11 and are distributed in the support frame 11 at intervals along the left-right direction;

when n is 2, a rotating shaft 15 horizontally arranged along the front-back direction is arranged between the two lifting platforms 12, the rotating shaft 15 is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame 11, the driving piece 13 is installed at the upper end of the supporting frame 11, and the driving end of the driving piece is in transmission connection with the rotating shaft 15;

the m lifting pieces 14 are arranged in the support frame 11 at intervals in the front-rear direction and are located above the plurality of lifting platforms 12, two ends of each lifting piece 14 are respectively connected with the left side and the right side of the upper end of the support frame 11, m first guide pieces 121 are arranged in the middle of the upper end of each lifting platform 12 at intervals in the front-rear direction, m second guide pieces 151 are fixedly arranged on each rotating shaft 15 at intervals in the front-rear direction, the m lifting pieces 14, the m first guide pieces 121 on each lifting platform 12 and the m second guide pieces 151 on each rotating shaft 15 respectively correspond to each other in the front-rear direction, and the middle of each lifting piece 14 sequentially passes through the corresponding first guide pieces 121 and second guide pieces 151 in a wave shape in the left-right direction;

when the driving part 13 runs, the driving part drives the rotating shaft 15 to rotate, and drives the two lifting tables 12 to synchronously move in different directions through the lifting part 14;

in the above technical scheme, the driving member 13 is a brake motor, so that the driving member can be prevented from rotating under the action of gravity of the lifting platform when the driving member stops rotating, and the lifting platform can be lifted by itself.

As shown in fig. 2, in the above technical solution, the hoisting member 14 is a rope (preferably, a steel wire rope), the first guide member 121 and the second guide member 151 are both grooved wheels, and the rope is wound on the second guide member 151 for a plurality of turns and then wound around the adjacent first guide member 121, which is simple in structure, and the rope is wound on the second guide member for a plurality of turns to avoid the rope sliding on the second guide member, and at the same time, the height of the lifting platforms at two sides of the rope can be smoothly adjusted by the driving of the rotating shaft, wherein preferably, each second guide member of the rope is wound with at least three turns; or the lifting element 14 is a strip chain, the first guide element 121 and the second guide element 151 are chain wheels matched with the chain, the first guide element 121 is rotatably mounted on the lifting platform 12, and each chain is meshed with the first guide element 121 and the second guide element 151 which are bypassed by the chain respectively.

In the above technical solution, the lifting platform 12 is a square frame with an open front end and a closed rear end, so that the front end and the rear end of the lifting platform can be used as the inlet and the outlet of the lifting platform, and vehicles can conveniently enter and exit.

Preferably, m is 2, 3, 4 or 5, and more preferably, m is 2, and the two hoisting members are respectively arranged in front and rear, so that the stability is good.

The driving piece drives the rotating shaft to rotate forwards or reversely so that the lifting piece is increased on one side of the length of the two sides of the rotating shaft and is shortened on the other side of the length of the two sides of the rotating shaft, and therefore the lifting platforms close to the two sides of the rotating shaft are enabled to ascend and descend one by one.

Preferably, the support frame 11 is composed of n +1 support walls 111 arranged along the front-rear direction, the n +1 support walls 111 are arranged at intervals along the left-right direction, a plurality of cross beams 112 horizontally arranged along the left-right direction are arranged at the upper ends of the plurality of support walls 111, the plurality of cross beams 112 are arranged at intervals along the front-rear direction, a lifting platform 12 is arranged between two adjacent support walls 111, preferably, the left side and the right side of the lifting platform 12 are slidably connected with the support walls 111 at the two sides, and each lifting platform 12 slides upwards along the support walls 111 at the two sides or slides downwards under the gravity action of the lifting piece 14.

When one lifting platform descends to the lowest end of the support frame, the other lifting platform ascends to the highest end of the support frame.

Example 2

The embodiment 1 is the same as the embodiment 1, and is different in that n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, a rotating shaft 15 horizontally arranged in the front-rear direction is respectively arranged between two adjacent lifting platforms 12, each rotating shaft 15 is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame 11, a plurality of driving pieces 13 are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of rotating shafts 15, and the plurality of driving pieces 13 are mounted at the upper end of the supporting frame 11 and are respectively in transmission connection with the corresponding rotating shafts 15;

when n is 3, two driving members 13 operate alternatively, the driving members 13 drive the corresponding rotating shafts 15 to rotate, the two lifting tables 12 on two sides of the rotating shafts 15 are driven by the lifting members 14 to synchronously move in different directions, and the rest lifting table is kept static. As shown in fig. 3, two lifters located at two sides of the three lifters are located at the lowest end, the lifter located in the middle is located at the highest end, when the left driving member rotates in the forward direction, the leftmost lifter is driven to move upwards, the lifter located in the middle moves downwards to the lowest end, at this time, the two lifters located at the two sides of the three lifters are located at the lowest end, at this time, the right driving member is not suitable to be started, at this time, the left driving member can be started again to rotate in the reverse direction, so that the two lifters located at the two sides of the three lifters reset (the leftmost lifter moves downwards to the lowest end, and the lifter located in the middle moves upwards to the highest end), at this time, the right driving motor can be started, and the rightmost lifter and the middle lifter move in different directions.

When n is a positive integer greater than 3, at least one driving piece 13 runs, any two adjacent driving pieces 13 cannot run synchronously, the driving piece 13 in a running state drives the corresponding rotating shaft 15 to rotate, and the two lifting tables 12 on two sides of the rotating shaft 15 are driven to synchronously move in different directions by the lifting piece 14, so that the situation that the two adjacent driving pieces are driven synchronously to avoid the situation that the two lifting pieces are pulled mutually to cause potential safety hazards is avoided. Taking n equal to 4 as an example, as shown in fig. 4, the positions of the four lifting platforms distributed from left to right are: the most extreme-the top-the most extreme-the top, any one of the three driving members can be operated independently, if two driving members need to be operated simultaneously, the most intelligent left-most driving member and the most intelligent right-most driving member are operated synchronously.

Example 3

As shown in fig. 5-7, the present embodiment provides a parking apparatus, including two parking frames 2 arranged at intervals in a front-rear direction and a lifting mechanism 1 as described in embodiment 1 or embodiment 2, wherein the lifting mechanism 1 is clamped between the two parking frames 2, the two parking frames 2 are each of a multi-layer structure, each layer is provided with n compartments 21 in the left-right direction, the n compartments 21 of each layer are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the n lifting platforms 12, each lifting platform 12 can be communicated with any layer of the two compartments 21 corresponding to the front and rear thereof at the front and rear ends thereof during lifting, each compartment is open at a side close to the lifting mechanism 1, the n compartments 21 of a first layer of one parking frame 2 serve as transition parking spaces and are communicated with each other, and a side of at least one transition parking space away from the lifting mechanism 1 is open to form a vehicle entrance of the parking apparatus, the rest compartments 21 of the parking frame 2 and all the compartments 21 of the other parking frame 2 are used as parking spaces, vehicles enter any one transition parking space from a vehicle entrance and exit and reach any one corresponding parking space from the corresponding lifting platform 12, or the vehicles are conveyed to the corresponding transition parking space from the corresponding lifting platform 12 at the parking space and exit through the vehicle entrance and exit.

As shown in fig. 8, the above technical solution further includes n first carriers 122, the n first carriers 122 correspond to the n lifting platforms 12 one by one, and each first carrier 122 is respectively installed in the corresponding lifting platform 12 and is used for carrying the vehicle from any one of the compartments corresponding to the first carrier into the lifting platform 12 or from the lifting platform 12 into the compartment 21, so that the vehicle can be carried from a transit parking space to the lifting platform and then from the lifting platform to the parking space by the first carrier in the parking process, and the whole process is opposite in the vehicle taking process, that is, no manual intervention is required in the whole parking and vehicle taking process, and only a driver needs to drive the vehicle from outside into the transit parking space or drive the vehicle out from the transit parking space.

Preferably, the first carrier is a comb carrier mounted on an inner bottom of the lift table.

Preferably, at this time, a side of each transition parking space facing away from the lifting mechanism 1 is open and forms a vehicle entrance, that is, a vehicle can directly enter and exit from each entrance.

Example 4

As shown in fig. 9, the difference from embodiment 3 is that when n is greater than or equal to 3 in the above technical solution, and one end of any one of the intermediate transfer parking spaces facing away from the lifting mechanism 1 is open to form the vehicle entrance, so that a plurality of transfer parking spaces share one vehicle entrance.

The technical scheme includes that the parking device further comprises a transverse moving rotary carrier, the transverse moving rotary carrier is embedded in the transition parking space with the front side open, and is used for rotating the vehicle 180 degrees and transversely conveying the vehicle to any remaining transition parking space, and the vehicle entering the transverse moving rotary carrier is rotated 180 degrees and transversely moved to any transition parking space for parking through the transverse moving rotary carrier, or is conveyed to the transition parking space with a vehicle access. Preferably, the traverse rotary conveyor may be similar in structure to the traverse rotary reversing trolley for the flat-moving type mechanical garage disclosed in the document No. CN 207406086U.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

Claims (8)

1. A lifting mechanism is characterized by comprising a supporting frame (11), n lifting platforms (12), n-1 driving parts (13) and m strip-shaped lifting parts (14), wherein m and n are positive integers greater than or equal to 2;

the support frame (11) is arranged along the left-right direction, and the front end and the rear end of the support frame are open;

the n lifting platforms (12) are horizontally arranged in the support frame (11) and are distributed in the support frame (11) at intervals along the left-right direction;

when n is 2, a rotating shaft (15) horizontally arranged along the front-back direction is arranged between the two lifting platforms (12), the rotating shaft (15) is rotatably connected with the top of the supporting frame (11), the driving piece (13) is installed at the upper end of the supporting frame (11), and the driving end of the driving piece is in transmission connection with the rotating shaft (15);

when n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, a rotating shaft (15) horizontally arranged in the front-back direction is respectively arranged between every two adjacent lifting platforms (12), each rotating shaft (15) is rotatably connected with the top of the support frame (11), the driving pieces (13) are in one-to-one correspondence with the rotating shafts (15), and the driving pieces (13) are installed at the upper end of the support frame (11) and are respectively in transmission connection with the corresponding rotating shafts (15);

m lifting pieces (14) are arranged in the support frame (11) at intervals along the front-back direction, the lifting device is arranged above the lifting platforms (12), two ends of each lifting piece (14) are respectively connected with the left side and the right side of the upper end of the support frame (11), m first guide pieces (121) are installed in the middle of the upper end of each lifting platform (12) at intervals along the front-back direction, m second guide pieces (151) are fixedly installed on each rotating shaft (15) at intervals along the front-back direction, m lifting pieces (14), m first guide pieces (121) on each lifting platform (12) and m second guide pieces (151) on each rotating shaft (15) respectively correspond to each other along the front-back direction, and the middle of each lifting piece (14) sequentially and in a wave shape bypasses the corresponding first guide piece (121) and second guide piece (151) along the left-right direction;

when n is 2, the driving piece (13) drives the rotating shaft (15) to rotate when running, and drives the two lifting platforms (12) to synchronously move in different directions through the lifting piece (14);

when n is 3, one of the two driving parts (13) is selected to operate, the driving part (13) drives the corresponding rotating shaft (15) to rotate, and the two lifting platforms (12) positioned at two sides of the rotating shaft (15) are driven by the lifting part (14) to synchronously move in different directions;

when n is a positive integer larger than 3, at least one driving piece (13) runs, any two adjacent driving pieces (13) cannot run synchronously, the driving piece (13) in the running state drives the corresponding rotating shaft (15) to rotate, and the two lifting tables (12) positioned on two sides of the rotating shaft (15) are driven by the lifting piece (14) to synchronously move in different directions.

2. The lifting mechanism as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the drive element (13) is a brake motor.

3. A hoisting mechanism according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the hoisting member (14) is a rope, that the first guide member (121) and the second guide member (151) are both sheaves, and that the rope is passed around the adjacent first guide member (121) after several turns on the second guide member (151); or the hoisting piece (14) is a strip-shaped chain, the first guide piece (121) and the second guide piece (151) are chain wheels matched with the chain, the first guide piece (121) is rotatably installed on the lifting platform (12), and each chain is meshed with the first guide piece (121) and the second guide piece (151) which are bypassed by the chain respectively.

4. The lifting mechanism according to claim 3, wherein the lifting platform (12) is a rectangular frame with open front and rear ends and closed lower end.

5. A parking apparatus, comprising two parking frames (2) arranged at intervals along the front-rear direction and a lifting mechanism (1) according to claim 4, wherein the lifting mechanism (1) is clamped between the two parking frames (2), the two parking frames (2) are of a multi-layer structure, each layer is provided with n compartments (21) along the left-right direction, the n compartments (21) of each layer are respectively corresponding to the n lifting platforms (12) one by one, the front end and the rear end of each lifting platform (12) can be communicated with the two compartments (21) corresponding to the front end and the rear end of any layer in the lifting process, each compartment is open at one side close to the lifting mechanism (1), the n compartments (21) of the first layer of one parking frame (2) are used as transition parking spaces and are communicated with each other, and at least one transition parking space is far away from the open side of the lifting mechanism (1) to form a vehicle entrance of the parking apparatus, the rest compartments (21) of the parking frame (2) and all the compartments (21) of the other parking frame (2) are used as parking spaces, vehicles enter any one transition parking space from a vehicle entrance and exit and reach any one corresponding parking space from the corresponding lifting platform (12), or the vehicles are conveyed to the corresponding transition parking space from the corresponding lifting platform (12) at the parking space and exit through the vehicle entrance and exit.

6. Parking apparatus as in claim 5, characterized in that it further comprises n first carriers (122), n of said first carriers (122) corresponding one-to-one to n of said stations (12), each of said first carriers (122) being mounted in a respective station (12) for carrying vehicles from any one of said compartments corresponding thereto into said station (12) or from the station (12) into said compartment (21).

7. Parking arrangement according to claim 6, wherein when n is greater than or equal to 3, the end of any one of the intermediate parking spaces facing away from the lifting mechanism (1) is open to form the vehicle entrance.

8. The parking apparatus as claimed in claim 7, further comprising a traverse rotary carrier (3), said traverse rotary carrier (3) being fitted in said intermediate parking space with an open front side, for rotating the vehicle by 180 ° and conveying the vehicle laterally to any of the remaining intermediate parking spaces.

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