IL34318A - Parking arrangement for motor cars - Google Patents

Description

PARKING ARRANGEMENT FOR MOTOR CARS - 1 - Ay in. o The present invention concerns a parking arrangement Tor motor cars.

One of the known parking arrangements comprises a helical ramp which leads up to and between superposed stories in which the cars can be parked. The ramp must have at least two lanes to accommodate the cars which arrive and leave. Furthermore , space on which no cars may be parked, must be available at each storey to permit cars to approach their parking space and to leave it.

These known parking arrangements waste a lot of space which is uneconomic since it does not bring in any revenue · In British patent No. 829,723 a parking arrangement for motor cars is described and claimed, in which an elevator tower is movable round an annulus to communicate with parking spaces placed around the inside and outside of said annulus. Crates are provided to permit entry to and exit from the elevators.

This arrangement suffers from many drawbacks. The elevator tower must be made movable and this requires a great output of power and many mechanical difficulties must be overcome. Since the same elevator is used for both entry and exit of cars, much time is wasted and great confusion prevails.Much space which could otherwise be used for parking is wasted since a receiving area must be provided in the center of the arrangement. a r It is the object of the present invention to overcome the drawbacks of the known parking arrangements and to provide a parking arrangement which utilizes the available space much more than hitherto possible and permits easy and quick parking without greatly exerting the operator.

The invention consists in a parking arrangement and for motor cars wherein cars are to be parked above/ot below ground level in at least two stories, comprising at each storey two adjacent annular eoplanar and concentric platforms rotatably mounted in cylindrical walls, and at least one elevator associated with B¾¾S£ the inner of the at least one elevator with platforms and/the outer of the platforms, the inner cylindrical wall as well as the outer cylindrical wall having openings at the level of each storey to permit approach to the corresponding elevator.

The invention is illustrated, by way of example only, in the accompanying drawings, in which t Fig. 1 is a schematic plan view of the parking arrangement according to the invention; Fig. 2 is a schematic elevation thereo y partly in section, and Fig. 3 is a section taken through line III-III of Fig. 2.

The parking arrangement according to the . invention comprises a plurality of superposed parking stories each of which is constituted by two adjacent, n annular coplanar and cocentric platforms 1,2. The inner platform 1 is rotatably mounted between the inner cylindrical wall 3 and the intermediate co-axial cylindrical wall 4, while the outer platform 2 is similarly mounted between the intermediate wall 4 and the outer co-axial cylindrical wall 5.

The platforms are rotatably mounted on bearings indicated at 6 (Fig. 9) disposed in suitable supports, e.g. channel beams 7 lodged in the walls 3,4,5. They are provided with gear teeth either at their outer periphery or extending downwards as shown at 8. In the former case, cooperating gear teeth are provided in the inner periphery of the corresponding channel beams, or in the second o' se;, a cooperating gear wheel engages them from below. The platforms are rotated by a motor (not shown), i.e. one motor may, through suitable gearing, , actuate all the platforms or each platform may be actuated by an n individual motor* At two diametrically opposite positions within the cylindrical wall 3 an elevator 9 of a size to correspond to the space required by one motor car is provided, the elevator being operated by a known mechanism 10 located at the top of the building, as known per se. Wall 3 is provided at each floor with suitable openings 11 in register with the elevator shafts (not shown) . At two diametrically opposite positions outside wall 5, one or two further elevators 9t operated by the known mechanism 10 are provided, the walls 5 having suitable openings 12 in register with the elevator shaft (not shown), The entrance 13 and exit 14 of motor cars to and from the parking arrangement above described is shown here to be below the bottom storey and at ground level. If desired, they may, however, be at any other suitable level* The entire parking arrangement is operated electronically from a central control position (no$ shown) whivh will indicate where a parking space is available, will find the position where a particular car has been parked after the owner requests the delivery thereof, will rotate the platform so that said car will be located opposite the corresponding elevator so that it can be driven into said elevator, whereafter the latter is lowered automatically to deliver said car. Electronic circuits by which operations of this kind can be controlled, are known.

Claims (4)

• , * ν - 4 - , The number of elevators adjacent wall 3 and wall 5 is not limited to the number described herein, neither are the numbers of parking stories, the only consideration being one of economics and space* If desired the arrangement may be disposed entirely below, ground level or partially below and partially above ground level. It i3 preferable that one of the inner and otter elevators is used for parking the cars only, while the other or othets are used for removal of the cars only* C L A I M S ;

1. A parking arrangement for motor cars wherein and cars are to be parked above/ or below ground level in at least two stories, comprising at each, storey two adjacent annular coplanar and concentric platforms rotatably mounted in cylindrical walls, and at least one elevator associated with fcs-th the inner of the platforms and at least one elevator with /the outer of the platforms, the inner cylindrical wall as well as the outer cylindrical wall having openings at the level of each storey to permit approach to the corres- , ponding elevator*

2. A parkin arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least two elevators are disposed in diametrically opposite positions adjacent the inner platforms and at least two elevators in similar positions adjacent the outer platforms. 5

3. Λ parking arrangement as claimed in claim 1 or wherein the rotation of the platforms and the operation of the elevators is controlled electronically.

4. Parking arrangement subs-tantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Tel-Aviv, 6th of April, 1970 AGENT FOR APPLICANTS