US1568384A - Garage - Google Patents

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` GARAGE y.Filled Feb. 12, 1923 sheets-sheet? Patented Jan. 5, 1926.

WILLIAM A. PUNGB, F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

GARAGE. l

` Application lied lebruary 412, 1923. Serial No. 618,573.

[o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. PUNos, a citizen'of the United States of America, residin at Detroit, in the county\of Wayne and ftate of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garages, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. 4

This invention'relates to a garagev and one of the objects of my invention is to provide a circular building portion in which automobiles and other vehicles may be compactly stored or temporarily placed in an ex editious and economical manner, the bui ding portion including novel means whereby easy access can be had to any vehicle stored therein without any confusion in the movement of vehicles or danger to the same.

Another object of this inventionis to furnish a garage with superposed sets of concentric movable car latforms served by an elevator movable axially of said car platforms.

A further ob'ect of this invention is to provide agarage o large capacityhavingcircular storage compartments provided with movable car supporting platforms on a level with an elevator floor so that cars maybe moved from an elevator on to either latform and shifted to a storage space wit out disturbin other cars that may be on said platforms.

attain the above and other objects by a garage that may be partly underground and partly above ground so that such building4 will occupy a minimum of space and yet have a large storage capacity. The novel arran ement of the storage com artments,

Iatforms and elevator will e hereinafter described andthen claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawing where- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the garage, partly broken away, showing an elevator in a lowered position centrally of the garage;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view ofthe l same, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevationof a portion of one of the movable car platforms of the garage.

show an inner wall 1, an intermediate wall 2 and an outer wall 3, said wall supporting a suitable roof 4 and in the preferred form of construction extending below the street level 5 to a suitable floor 6.

'lhe'circular wall 1 supports floors 7 having central openings 8 affording a well or shaft for a conventional form of elevator 9 that may be operated to raise or lower an automobile 10 or other vehicle relative to the floor 7, each of said floors being of suicient area to permit of the automobile 10 readily moving about the vioor and in emergency cases the floors 7 may be used for the storage of automobiles.

Connecting the walls 1, 2 and 3 are circular floors 11 and on said floors are circular tracks 12 and racks 13., Movable on the tracks 12. are the trucks or wheels 14 of circular car platforms 15. The floors 11 are in a plane below the floors 7 so that the platforms 15 will be on a level with the floors 7 and the walls l and 2 have transversely alining doorways or openings 16 through which automobiles may be shifted when removing a car from a garage or placing a car therein, and for this purpose the outer wall 3 has one or more doorways 17 at the street level 5.

As illustrating a conventional form of operating mechanism for the platforms I provide the lower face of each latform with an electric motor 18 and a train of gears 19 driven from said motor with said train of gears including a pinion 20 meshing with the rack 13 under the platform. Any suitable means may be employed for controllin the operation of the electric motors, suc means being preferably located at the doorways 16 so that the owner of a car or an attendant of the building can shift a platform to permit of an automobile being removed ltherefrom orplaced thereon, and in order to afford light in the storage compartments between the floors and walls `of the building, the walls 2 and 3 may be provided with windows 21. 'v

Gbviously the buildingwill be fire proo and may have as large a storage capacity as the ground will permit. Furthermore, the

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circular building may formv art of another building or the street level oor be of such plan as to provide street store rooms or other coilpartments.

hilek in the drawing there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that thestructural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A garage comprising concentric walls, rotatable car platforms between said walls, the innermost walls having doorways to permit of cars being moved from one platform to another, and means movable Aaxially of the innermost wall to facilitate placing cars on said platforms.

2. A garage as called for in claim l, wheref in said car platforms are arranged in sets with the platforms of each set concentric of each other.

3. A garage including a circular building portion having superposed floors, clrcular concentric rotatable car platforms on each Hoor, and an elevator in the center of the said circular building and movable through the building floors adapted to serve each floor.

4. A garage including concentric walls providing circular storage compartments having oors, one of said walls having its floor in a plane above the other floors, an elevator movable through said floor, and movable car platforms on the other floors with platforms in a-horizontal plane with sai-d floor.

5. A garage as called for in claim '4, wherein said walls have doorways permitting of a car being driven from said elevator backward or forward through said doorways on to either platform.

6. A garage as called for in claim 4, wherein the floor area included by the innermost wall has a diameter approximately three times greater than the length of a car.

In testimony whereof I'alx my signature.

WILLIAM A. PUNGS.

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