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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H6/00—Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels or like vehicles, e.g. garages
  • E04H6/08—Garages for many vehicles
  • E04H6/12—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles
  • E04H6/18—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions
  • E04H6/22—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions characterised by use of movable platforms for horizontal transport, i.e. cars being permanently parked on palettes
  • E04H6/225—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions characterised by use of movable platforms for horizontal transport, i.e. cars being permanently parked on palettes without transverse movement of the parking palette after leaving the transfer means

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• the invention relates to a method for operating a parking system for motor vehicles, which has fixed pitches arranged one above the other, each having a guide for a pallet displaceable along the guide, and a lift arranged next to the fixed parking spaces, which likewise carries a guide for a pallet which is displaceable in this guide, in which, to move a pallet between the leadership of a fixed pitch and the leadership of the elevator so the elevator stops next to a fixed pitch, that the guides of the fixed pitch and the elevator are aligned with each other, the leadership of the elevator at their fixed pitch facing end rests on a support surface connected to the fixed parking space.
• each pitch of the shelf-like parking space arrangement can be achieved, so that the pallet carrying the motor vehicle together with this can be inserted after the alignment with the parking space in this.
• Difficult is the reliable alignment of the guide for the pallet on the elevator on the one hand and the guide for the pallet in the fixed space on the other. Although you can improve this alignment by placing the leadership of the elevator with its end facing the parking space on a fixedly connected to the parking space support surface, but then difficulties arise when the elevator does not reach exactly the necessary height next to a pitch to be approached. Such inaccuracies in the positioning of the elevator can readily occur, even by different load on the elevator with different vehicles, on the other hand by the high lifting speeds and / or wear of the elevator, which are usually used to reduce the delivery times.
• This object is achieved according to the invention in a method of the type described above, that pivoted the leadership of the elevator after placing it on the support surface to a transverse to the direction of rotation, horizontal, parking space-side pivot axis passing through the support point of the guide of the elevator on the support surface is defined until the guidance of the elevator is horizontal.
• the guide of the elevator By placing the guide of the elevator on the support surface results in a pivot bearing, that is, the guide can on the support surface by a ne horizontal pivot axis can be pivoted, so that by such a pivoting a guide on the elevator can be placed exactly horizontal if it is not exactly horizontal when placing itself or during the subsequent stop of the elevator and thus is not aligned exactly for guiding the pitch.
• the guide of the elevator pivotably mounted on the elevator about an inclination axis parallel to the parking space-side pivot axis is raised or lowered by an upward or downward movement of the elevator.
• the guide is thus mounted on the elevator also pivotable about an inclination axis, which runs parallel to the parking space side pivot axis, and thus alone by raising and lowering the elevator, the guide of the elevator can be pivoted so that it finally exactly horizontal, even if this is the case initial fast approach of the elevator to the pitch to be approached should not be the case.
• the guidance of the elevator relative to this prior to placement on the support surface of a parking space to a parallel to the parking space-side pivot axis extending inclination axis sloping towards the parking space is particularly advantageous.
• the guide on the elevator is so shortly before the guide is placed on the support surface at the pitch to be approached, sloping towards the parking space and only after putting on the support surface, either by a further movement of the elevator, be it by a lifting movement of the Lift arranged lifting device, pivoted in the horizontal.
• This pivoting movement can be made dependent on the holding position in which the elevator has been stopped relative to the parking space to be approached, and regardless of this actual holding position can be achieved by simply pivoting the guide on the elevator, the horizontal for this guide.
• the guide of the elevator for placement on a support surface of a pitch to be approached in the direction of the guide horizontally from a stroke position in which the guide is in the process of the elevator between different parking spaces such that they the support surfaces of the parking spaces has a distance, moves in a set-up, in which the ends of the guide of the elevator is above the support surface of the pitch to be approached.
• arranging the axis of inclination of the guides of the elevator in the longitudinal direction in the middle is the end of the guide of this inclination axis only half the guide length of the pitch axis away, so that when pivoting the guide a relatively large displacement in the horizontal direction, that is at a pivoting changes the distance of the end of the guide to the elevator of the guide in the pitch to be approached, it can be relatively large gaps.
• the inclination axis of the guide of the elevator can be attached to the other arrange approaching parking space facing away from the guide of the elevator, so that the distance between the inclination axis of the guide on the one hand and the support surfaces of the parking space on the other hand is larger.
• the park can be constructed symmetrically, that is, you can arrange on opposite sides of the elevator identically designed pitches and align the trained on their opposite sides the same guide either with a to be approached parking space on one side or on the opposite side.
• Another embodiment provides that one arranges on opposite sides of the elevator identically designed parking spaces and that one turns the guide on the elevator about a vertical axis of rotation to align the guidance of the elevator with that of a pitch to be approached. Such rotation of the guide of the elevator about the vertical axis may also be useful to connect the guidance of the elevator to a retraction station and / or an extension station.
• Such a procedure speeds up the pallet change, because it is ensured that at any time at each pitch, in the elevator, in the entry and in the extension station, a free pallet is available, which can be exchanged for a passable or a driven pallet. This speeds up the pallet change both in the area between the elevator and the parking space as well as in the area between the elevator and the entry and exit stations.
• the pallet is lowered from the upper guide track into the lower guide track in the extension station after the motor vehicle has left the upper pallet.
• the invention further relates to a park for motor vehicles with juxtaposed fixed spaces, each having a guide for a sliding along the guide pallet, and arranged with a next to the fixed parking spaces, also a guide for a slidably along this guide pallet having elevator a support surface connected to the fixed spaces, on which the approachable to a parking space facing end of the guide of the elevator can be placed to align the guides of the elevator and the pitch to be moved for moving a pallet between these guides, and with a controller for operating the elevator and for moving the pallets. It is an object of the invention to design a parking system of the generic type such that the alignment of the guides on the elevator and in a parking space to be approached is improved.
• the drive for pivoting the guide of the elevator is formed by the elevator and the control for pivoting the guide of the elevator raises or lowers the elevator.
• the drive for pivoting the guide of the elevator is formed by a lifting device arranged on the elevator and that the control for pivoting the guide of the elevator raises or lowers the lifting device. It is particularly advantageous if the control pivots the guide of the elevator with respect to this prior to placement on the support surface of a parking space to a pitch parallel to the pitch-side pivot axis inclination axis to the parking space and pivots it after placement in the horizontal position.
• the guide on the elevator in the horizontal direction by a displacement device parallel to the direction of displacement of the guide is displaceable and that the control activates the displacement device such that it guides the elevator for placement on a support surface of a to be approached parking space Lifting position, in which the guide is in the process of the elevator between different parking spaces such that it has a distance from the support surfaces of the pitches, is moved to a set position in which the ends of the guide of the elevator are above the support surface of the pitch to be approached.
• transmission means may be provided which at the horizontal displacement of the guide of the elevator from the lifting position into the set position, the guide of the elevator at the same time pivot about the inclination axis so that its the approaching parking space facing end is lowered relative to the opposite end.
• the transmission means may, for example, comprise a track for the horizontal displacement of the guide of the elevator, which is lowered at the end facing the parking space to be approached and / or rises at the end remote from the parking space to be approached.
• the track can be formed by a cam track and at this at the horizontal displacement of the guide adjacent cam.
• the cam can be lifted from the cam track upwards, so that thereby a horizontal position of the guide on the elevator can be reached.
• cam track and cam are arranged on two support points arranged at a distance from one another in the longitudinal direction of the guide. In this way, a lifting of the cam of the cam track at one or the other support point done, this is favorable when a symmetrical structure of the park is used and the elevator the guide either to a parking space on one side or on the opposite side to connect the elevator.
• the guide is mounted on the elevator in the middle of its longitudinal extent pivotable about the inclination axis. This results in a very simple construction for the pivotability of the guidance of the elevator about an inclination axis.
• the inclination axis is arranged on the side of the elevator facing away from the parking space, so that there is a large distance between the inclination axis of the parking space to be approached and thus a very small displacement of the end of the guide on the elevator their pivoting.
• the park can be constructed on one side, but it should also be provided that the park is symmetrical, so that on opposite sides of the elevator identically designed parking spaces are arranged and that the guide, which is of the same design on its opposite sides, can be aligned either with a parking space to be approached on one side or on the opposite side.
• the guide is pivotally mounted on the elevator about two longitudinally spaced-apart inclination axes.
• the pivoting of the guide on the elevator can always be done about the inclination axis, which has the greater distance from the pitch to be approached, that is, it is either the one or the other tilt axis effective.
• a handlebar is arranged, one end of which at one bearing pivotable about the one pivot axis with the elevator and at the other bearing point about the other axis of inclination pivoting with the Leadership is connected.
• the guide is thus connected to the elevator and can optionally be pivoted in one or in the other direction, wherein one of the two tilt axes serves as a pivot axis for each pivoting movement.
• the guide on the elevator is rotatable about a vertical axis.
• the controller can be designed so that it lowers the pallet from the upper guide track in the lower guideway after the motor vehicle has left the upper pallet in the extension station.
• controller may be configured to lift a pallet from the lower track to the upper track in the entry station before a motor vehicle enters the entry station on an upper pallet.
• Figure 1 a partial perspective view of a park with an elevator with a vertical axis rotatable guide and with one above the other, one behind the other and side by side arranged parking spaces;
• Figure 2 is a plan view of a park similar to Figure 1 with parking spaces on opposite sides of a lift shaft;
• Figure 3 is a side view of the park of Figure 2;
• Figure 4 is a schematic side view of an elevator in alignment with a parking space in the transfer of a loaded with a motor vehicle pallet to the parking space and an empty pallet to the elevator;
• FIG. 5 shows a view similar to FIG. 4 with two parking spaces arranged one behind the other;
• Figure 6 is a schematic front view of a retraction or extension station with two superimposed lanes for pallets with a pallet in the upper lane;
• Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 6 with swung-out upper lanes
• Figure 8 a detail side view of the elevator when driving past a parking space
• Figure 9 is a view similar to Figure 8 when starting the elevator to a parking space with the parking space lowered towards the guide and with attached to a support surface of the parking guide;
• FIG. 10 shows a side view of a guide, which is aligned with a parking space and sloping towards the parking space, with a lifting device for raising and lowering the guide relative to the elevator;
• Figure 11 shows another preferred embodiment of a guide in a similar position as in Figure 10 with a central pivotal mounting of the guide on the elevator;
• Figure 12 is a view similar to Figure 11 with horizontally oriented guide by height adjustment of the elevator;
• FIG. 13 shows a representation of a modified exemplary embodiment of a mounting of a guide on the elevator with a link arranged between guide and elevator and two tilt axes;
• Figure 14 is a view similar to Figure 13 with the guide in a horizontal orientation
• FIG. 15 shows a preferred exemplary embodiment of a guide mounted on the elevator via two cam tracks in the middle position on the elevator;
• FIG. 16 shows a view similar to FIG. 15 with the guide in a position adjoining laterally on the parking space to be approached and in an inclined position lowered towards the parking space to be approached and
• FIG. 16 shows a view similar to FIG. 15 with the guide in a position adjoining laterally on the parking space to be approached and in an inclined position lowered towards the parking space to be approached and
• FIG. 17 a view similar to FIG. 16 with the guide in aligned horizontal position.
• the invention will be discussed below in a park 1, in which a plurality of parking spaces 3 are arranged like a shelf above and next to each other on both sides of a lift shaft 2, for this purpose, on both sides of the elevator shaft 2, a framework 4 of vertical beams 5 and arranged horizontal supports 6, this shelf-shaped frame forms individual compartments for the parking spaces 3.
• the elevator shaft 2 extends between the two opposing stands 4 over the entire width of these scaffolds 4, and in this elevator shaft 2 a lift 7 is accommodated over the entire length of the elevator shaft 2, which can be moved over the entire height of the scaffold 4.
• the elevator 7 is mounted in a height-displaceable manner on a portal 8 extending over the entire height of the framework 4; the portal 8 can in turn be moved on rails 9 which extend along the elevator shaft 2.
• the framework 4 takes two each successively arranged parking spaces 3, so has a depth that corresponds to twice the parking space length. In the embodiments of Figures 2 and 3, however, only one pitch is provided on both sides of the elevator shaft 2 in the opposing stands 4, so these frameworks 4 have a smaller depth than in the embodiment of Figure 1.
• the elevator 7 can also be designed in any other way, for example, it can hang on ropes, it is only essential that the elevator over the entire length of the elevator shaft 2 and over the entire height of the frameworks 4 can be moved.
• the elevator is rotatably mounted about a vertical axis, as shown in the drawing. Position of Figure 1 becomes clear. As a result, mounted on the elevator motor vehicles can be rotated and thereby introduced in any direction in the parking spaces.
• pallets 12 can be inserted and in Moved longitudinally, which serve the inclusion of motor vehicles 13.
• the pallets 12 have on their longitudinal sides on rollers 14 which run in the rails 10, 11.
• Such an extension station 17 is shown schematically in FIG. 3 at the lower end of the right-hand frame 4.
• a retraction station is essentially the same design as an extension station 17.
• the retraction station and the retraction station both have each as well as the parking spaces 3 and the elevator 7 superimposed rails 18, 19, but they are passable on both sides for a motor vehicle, so once from the Side of the elevator 7 ago and the other from the side of an entrance or exit 20 ago.
• This lifting device 22 can raise and lower the pallet 12, for example, it may be a hydraulic lifting device which engages with several pressure cylinders at different locations of a pallet 12 to raise and lower these evenly and parallel to itself. It is thereby possible to raise the pallets from the lower running rail 19 upwards, when the carriers 21 are laterally swung out with the upper running rails 18, since in this way the space above the lower running rails 19 is released.
• the pallet 12 can be raised so far that the carrier 21 can be pivoted with the upper rails 18 below the pallet again, so that in a subsequent lowering of the pallet it is received in the upper rails 18 and stored there displaceable.
• a controller 23 is provided, which controls the movements of the elevator 7, the displacement of the pallets 12 along the rails and the raising and lowering of the pallets by means of the lifting device 22 via suitable drives, so that the entire adjustment process for a motor vehicle of this controller 23 automatically is controlled.
• FIG. 4 the entry of a pallet 12 occupied by a motor vehicle 13 into a parking space 3 is shown with the simultaneous transfer of an empty pallet from the parking space 3 to the elevator 7.
• the stand 4 has a depth which only corresponds to a parking space, while in the embodiment of Figure 5, the framework has a double depth, so that two parking spaces are arranged one behind the other. In Figure 5, the same change process is shown for this case.
• the scaffold 4 has two consecutively arranged parking spaces 3, the loaded pallet can remain immediately adjacent to the elevator shaft 2 or also pushed completely back, as well as the two parking spaces assigned to a lower pallet either below the rear or the front parking space remain.
• a pallet is present in the lower rails of the corresponding parking space.
• the extension station In the extension station, a process that is the reverse of the entry station.
• To extend the elevator brings a loaded with a motor vehicle 13 pallet 12 in alignment with the extension station, in which a free range rests in the lower track 19 so that the elevator can move the pallet with the motor vehicle in the upper track 18. Once this is done, the vehicle can leave the exit station 20 through the exit.
• the lifting device 22 then lowers the empty pallet 12 into the lower running rail 19, so that the upper running rail is available for receiving the next occupied pallet.
• the two rails 15, 16 of the elevator 7 which are hereinafter referred to by the collective term "guide", arranged on the elevator 7 in the horizontal direction slidably.
• the elevator 7 can carry a drive which shifts the guide relative to the elevator in the horizontal direction, namely either to one side and to the opposite side, depending on which position the guide is to be connected.
• FIG. 9 shows the case in which the guide is horizontally moved up to a framework 4, so that when the elevator 7 is lowered, the projections 25 are placed on the support surfaces 24 and the running rails 15, 16 of the elevator are thereby involved in this area align the rails 10, 11 of the parking space 3 in terms of height.
• the guide about a horizontal, transverse to the longitudinal direction of the rails 15, 16 extending axis of inclination is pivotally mounted on the elevator 7.
• This storage can be done in a simple case by a pivot bearing, which is provided in the middle of the longitudinal extension of the rails 15, 16, as shown in Figure 12.
• the entire guide is pivotally mounted on the elevator 7 at a central bearing point, the pivoting movement is limited by stops 27, 28, so that only relatively small pivoting angle are possible.
• the elevator 7 can be lowered during lowering in any case so far until the projections 25 rest on the support surfaces 24. If the elevator is not stopped immediately, but marginally further lowered, this only leads to a pivoting of the guide, the support of the projections 25 on the support surface 24, however, is maintained. The controller can then perform a correction movement of the elevator 7 and this again slightly raise until the rails 15, 16 of the guide are exactly horizontal. In this way, when you first start a parking space 3 is not necessary to keep the elevator exactly, but it is sufficient if it stops after the projections 25 have placed themselves on the support surface 24, by a correction movement can then be achieved exactly horizontal orientation become.
• a handlebar 29 is provided, which is pivotally mounted with its one end on the elevator 7 about a horizontal, transverse to the longitudinal direction of the rails extending first pivot axis 30, while the other end of the arm 29th about a parallel thereto extending second pivot axis 31 is mounted on the guide.
• the two pivot axes are in each case at opposite ends of the elevator 7 and thus in the vicinity of the end of the rails 15, 16, so that the guide can be pivoted in both directions about inclination axes, of the patch on the support surfaces 24 end of the rails 15, 16 is almost the entire length of the rails removed.
• the guide is mounted on the elevator in the manner of a swing door, and thereby there is a pivoting in the a direction about one of the two tilt axes and in the other direction about the other of the two tilt axes.
• the guide is always pivoted about the axis of inclination, which is remote from the support point, so that the horizontal displacement of the supported runner ends is thereby minimized regardless of how soft on the guide on the Supporting surfaces 24 of the respective frame 4 rests.
• An alignment of the guide with the rails of the parking spaces can be achieved even without a reversal of movement of the elevator when the guide is inclined before placing the projections 25 on the support surfaces 24 so that the guide on the side facing the parking space relative to the parking space is lowered away from the opposite end.
• the projections 25 meet a slightly inclined guide on the support surface 24, and this inclination can be compensated for the further lowering of the elevator - possibly at low speed - characterized in that the elevator is stopped only when the guide is exactly horizontal.
• a suitable lifting device 32 can be arranged on the elevator 7, for example a hydraulic piston-cylinder unit, which can pivot the guide about the inclination axis. It can also be provided a plurality of such lifting devices, so that either can be lowered to one side or the other and the inclination axis is thereby arranged as far away from the Aufsetzstelle. Such an arrangement is shown in FIG.
• Such a lifting device 32 could also be used in the embodiments of FIGS. 11 to 14.
• a particularly advantageous embodiment is shown in Figures 15 to 17. In this case, the horizontal movement of the guide is utilized, which is provided in order to reduce the distance between the rails 15, 16 of the elevator 7 on the one hand and the rails 10, 11 of the pitch to be approached 3 on the other.
• the guide carries lateral cam tracks 33, 34 which rest on mounted on the elevator 7 cam rollers 35.
• the cam tracks 33, 34 have two end portions, namely a respective outer end portion
• the distance of the cam rollers 35 is selected so that they are at the central portions 38 when the guide is in its center position, that is, when the guide is moved up to neither one nor to the opposite other frame. In the horizontal displacement, the cam rollers 35 then reach on one side of the guide to the outer end portion 36 and on the other side to the inner end portion
• the guide As soon as the guide touches down on the supporting surfaces 24 of the parking space 3 to be approached with its projections 25, in the further lowering movement of the elevator, the guide is pivoted about an inclination axis, which passes through the From the support point remote cam roller 35 is formed. From the other cam roller 35, which is close to the support point, the corresponding cam is lifted thereby, so that thereby a further horizontal position of the guide can be achieved during further lowering.

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