US1481939A - Garage - Google Patents

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unir sra'rss JUNIUS E. TUCKER, 0F BRIVDGEIPORT, COBINEG'IIGUT.

GARAGE.

Application led December 31, 1921, Serial No. 526,322. Renewed June23, 1923.

interfering with other vehicles.-

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the vehicles can travel to the different floors under their own power and without necessitating the use of eleva-- tors and the like. 1

A further object of the invention is to provide stalls for the vehicles, so arranged that the 'vehicles can be moved into and out ofthe same under theii` own power.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, il-` lustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference Lwill be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the first fioor of the garage.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the upper Hoor.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view through the exit side of the building.

Figure 4 is a like view through the entrance side.

Figures 5 and 6 are views showing the specific form of partitions between the stalls.

As shown in these views the building is provided with a plurality of floors A, B, C and D. Of course it may be provided with more or less, as desired. Doors l are pro-J.

vided and I prefer to use the doors on one side of the building for entrance to the building and the doors on the opposite side as exits from the building. Inclines 2 are arranged for permitting a vehicle to pass from the ground level to the upper floors under its own power and to descend from 1. said iioors to the exit doors.

and exit incline is provided for each of the upper floors, the entrance inclines being arranged at one side of the building as shown in Figure 4 and the exit inclines being arranged at the opposite sides of the building, as shown in Figure 3. The inner sides ofY said inclines rare provided with low walls 2. The entrance and exit. doors are arranged at the bottoms of said inclines. 'Ihe entrance and exit doors for the lower ioor are arranged in the ends of the building, as shown at l and if desired I may provide doors lX for permitting va vehicle to pass from the lower floor to the runways leading to the upper floor. rllfhese doors 1x will, of course, permit a. vehicle to pass through the doors 1in-leaving or entering the building. I also provide ventilators 12 for the building, said ventilators being preferably of triangular shape, as shown in Figure 2 and arranged in rows at the inner ends of the rows of stalls.

It will be seen from the above that each ioor is independent of the other floors and to all intent and purpose each floor acts as- Y a separate garage, the cars passing to and from the same without interfering with cars using the other garages.

Each floor is provided with a plurality of stalls 3 for receiving the vehicles, thesestalls being arranged in rows with aisles 4 between the rows and the partitions 5 separating the stalls are diagonally arranged so as to facilitate the entrance and exit of the motor cars into andfrom the stall. I prefer to leave a large central aisle G be tween the rows and to locate elevators 7 and stairs 8 therein so that the. drivers and other persons may pass from ioor to floor.

I alsoarrange booths 9 on the lower floor adjacent the doors the purpose of which will be hereinafter described. I may also provide wait-ing rooms. o'iiices and the like in the building, as indicated at 10. The stalls may be marked ottl in any desired manner, though I prefer todo so by railings, as indicated at 11 in Figures 5 and 6.

From the above it will `be apparent that the vehicles can enter the buildingthrough the entrance doors and can run under their own power into the stalls, those located upon the upper ioors reaching said floors by passing up the inclined runways. When An entrance lll@ run under its own power from the stall through the aisles to the exit doors, said vehicle running down the exit incline if it is parked on one of the upper oors. Thus the vehicle -is moved about under its own power and can be easily and quickly parked in its proper stall without interfering with any other vehicle.A The peculiar arrangement of stalls permits the maximum of space to be used for parking purposes while permitting the cars to be'moved under their own power. Myvsystem also permits the car I that tickets can be placed upon the spaces representing stalls. Each day tickets will be provided in triplicate for each Hoor. These tickets will be dated; and numbered to represent the stalls-1, 2, 3, 4 and so on, and also indicating stall rows by number.

When an automobile appears at an entrance a ticket is handed the driver. which of course, directs him to the stall where he or she is to leave the c ar. The license number of the car is written on a duplicate ticket which is immediately transported byv mechanical means to the exit ticket booth of the same Hoor which the vcar is being parked upon. The attendant at vthe exit ticket booth places this duplicate ticket which contains the license number of the car on the number of stall onvthe chart that corresponds to the number of stall on the ticket. When the attendant at the entrance .ticket booth sends the duplicate ticket to the exit ticket ybooth he alsoplaces the triplicate ticket on the corresponding stall number of his chart.

The driver of the car, after parking leaves the building via passenger elevator or stairway. The ticket he holds is the credential to pass him into the building again and when he appears at the exit ticket booth -with his car he presents the ticket to the attendant who compares the number to the one on the stallindicated, and also compares the automobile license number to that written on the ticket he had on the chart. .Collection is made according to the date shown. The ticket which he collected from the driver of the car, which is the `'duplicate ticket isdeposited in a box, while the triplicate ticket which contains the automobile license number is returned to the entrance ticket booth and thevattendant then takes the original ticket off the chartV and deposits it in a box, and he forwardsl the triplicate' ticket containing the automobile license number to the accounting oilice. The corresponding stall on the charts is nowvacant which of course indicates that that stall is again vacant on the floor.

The above is for transient customers.

combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that vsuch changes fall with- 1n the scope of the appended claims.

iVhat I claim isr- Y l. Af'ga-rage having rows of diagonally arranged stalls therein, aisles between the rows and between the outer rows and the walls of the garage, an entrance aisle communicating with the entrance ends of the first named aisles and an exit aisle commuesl nicating with their exit ends, said stalls having both ends open. l

2. A garagehavlng an entrance at one end and an exit at theopposlte end, main driveways adjacent the walls of said garage. rows of diagonally arranged open ended stalls separated vby aisle driveways connecting said ent-rance and exit ends, whereby a' car can enter and leave the garage by a continuous passage through a stall.

3. A garage of the class described comprising a plurality of floors, a separate inclined entrance runway leading from the street level to each of the upper floors, a

separate inclined exit runway leading from each ofthe 'upper floors to the streetlevel, rows of diagonally arranged open ended stalls on each loor, aisles communicating with the several rows at respectiveends of the several stalls and entrance and exit vaisles at the ends of the first mentioned aisles cormnunicatingr respectively with said entrance and exit runways.

In testimony whereof Iaiiix my slgnature.

`.iUNIUs E. TUCKER. [1.8.]

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