US1848774A - Gabage - Google Patents

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March 8, 1932. E GE|GER 1,848,774

GARAGE Original Filed July 26, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l I INVENTOR 35 H' g- Eva/5i Geyer ATTORNEY E. GEIGE'R March 8, 1932.

GARAGE Original Filed July 26, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lillllliillllllfl 10 its. Q.

PatentedMar. 8, 1932 I v i r nnnsrenrenn, or mvrneron, new JERSEY I GARAGE I APiJIic'atibn first my 26, I928, s en in. 295,586. 'R'e'n'ewed March 26, 1930;

The present invention, while capable of a the banks of vertical shaftways for the cabin wide range "or utility for storage purposes, "chains, need have no communication with finds its preferred embodiment in a skysuch shartways. These storage floors are scraper or tower garage er the general supplied with odd-sized cars to be parked or character disclosed in my pri r: Patent stored through the intermediacyor elevators #1,636,'600 granted July 19th, 1927. at more or less conventional constructionar- It will be recalled that in this patentI 'disranged at opposite ends of the storagefl'oors closed the use bfendless chains of connected and wholly exteriorly of the cabin chain ele'v-at'er storage cabins traveling through the 'shaftways and the space enclosed thereby.

orbital paths defined by spaced vertical shaft- I The invention in effect involves the use of ways and up er and lower connective crossthe patented endless cabin chain garage sysways; The space between the banks of vertem in combination with a wholly indepentical shartways was horizontally sub-divided dent garage system, the two systems being by floors, the upper of which served as car so interrelated and interlocked that the lat- ,i storage floors while two or the lower ones ter efficiently utilizes all of the waste space 5, served as car delivery and receiving fl'oors. of the former and without in any way de- A primary object of the present invention traeti'ng from its'erfici'ent operation or its is to overcome certain inherent disadvanability to receive and deliver large numbers ta'ges or the patented construction, notably to of cars in a short space of time.

g conserve space, to provide greater volume of The building of the present invention is so live storage space, to facilitate the expedesigned that it is particularly well suited for 'ditious reception and delivery of cars and the erection of sky-scraper garages on a relto provide a garage building which may be atiyely narrow lot running from street to profitably erected and operated on a relativestreet in the center of a block; Present build- 1 2:, 1y small building lot in congestedxdis'tric'ts, ingregulations which call for set-backs or where property is generally too valuable to terraces render it impossible to use full length justify the building of the present type of cabin chains at the front and rear of such a low garages. building; With the resent invention, haw- Space economy is effected primarily by the ever, the cabin chain,- shaftways extend the so use of relatively small stbrage cabins pro- 'full height of the building, intermediate the 3 portioned to accommodate standard-sized ends of the latter, and the set-backs are procars, whereby the cross-sectional area of the vided in the extended ends of the supplemenshaftway's and crossways may be reduced, tal storage floors of the secondary garage, the cabins themselves made or smaller dimenwhere great height is not needed;

23:, sions in all directions and a greater number Such a building plan also promotes high 35 of cabins consequently used to make up an efficiency of the endless chain garage van endless cabin chain of any given length. ready accessibility for motorists in that a A special car-hoisting and car-parking 'carmay enter or leayethe garage from either means, wholl independent or the eterage or two streets. y cabins, is used for handling odd-sined cars, With the above noted and other objects in thereby eliminating the need for unduly view, the invention consists in certain novel large storage cabins, permitting odd-sized features of construction and combinations cars to be compactly arranged in the storage and arrangements of parts which will be more 7 spaces whichare provided for them, and obfully herin'after described and pointed out iating the necessity for reducing available 111 the claims. live storage space in that none or the stor The invention may be 'more fully under-' age cabins are used as conveyor elevators for "stood from the following description in conthe storage orparking floors of the building. "nection with the accompanying drawings,

In accordance Wltll the present invention, wherein: u a

' the central storage floors, confined between I Figure 1 is a broken longitudinal-vertical 10o walls of a relatively long, narrow sectional view through a garage embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse, vertical sectional view through the top of the garage taken approximately 011 the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view complementing Figure 2, showing the lower end of the garage and taken on the same line 22.

Figure 4 is a broken sectional plan view taken approximately 44 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional detail through one of the elevator platforms which convey cars to and from the storage floors, this view being taken approximately on the line 5-5 of Figure l.

It may be noted at the outset that all of the figures of the drawings are highly diagrammatic and for the sake of clarity avoid all showing of details of the endless cabin chains and various other equipment which is disclosed in my prior patent above identified and in various copencling applications.

In the drawings, I have used the reference numerals 10, to designate the opposite side building, this building being provided with a basement floor 11 and a central roof section 12. The side walls 10 cooperate with transverse vertical walls 13 and longitudinal vertical walls 14 to define banks of vertical shaftways 15 at opposite sides of the building, these shaftways extending the full height of the buildmg and being connected at their tops and bottoms by horizontal cross-ways 16 and 17.

Trains of storage cabins 18 are mounted on endless chains 19 actuated in any suitable manner (not shown) for movement through the orbital paths defined by the vertical shaftways 15 and the upper and lower crossways 16 and 17.

As thus far described, the construction may be entirely conventional and in accordance with my prior patent. An improvement over such patent, however, resides in the use of a series of horizontal storage floors 20, the restricted intermediate portions of which are disposed between the banks of shaftways 15. These floors instead of terminating at the ends of the shaftway banks, as in my prior patent, extend therebeyond, such floor extensions being numbered 21 and being the full width of the building. In order to comply with building requirements, terraces or set-backs such as 22 and 23 are provided by cutting down or stepping back certain of the upper storage floor extensions v21. In this manner building laws are complied with without the need for reducing the total height of any of the shaftway units 15 16 and 17.

Preferably the lowermost of the floors between the shaftways 15 comprises a receiving floor 24 while the immediately superjacent floor 25 serves as a car delivery floor.

on the staggered line Floors 24 and 25 at their ends communicate by ramps 24a and 25a with common driveways 26 at opposite ends of the building, which driveways communicate with the two streets on which the ends of the building front. Preferably control rooms, or control houses 27 are mounted between the ramps 24a and 25a and permit business to be conveniently transacted with the drivers of cars either when entering or leaving the garage.

Vertical shaftways 28 and 29 are provided in diagonally opposite corners of the building accommodating vertically movable elevators or hoisting platforms 30 of more or less conventional general design. These platforms or elevator cars may be operated by cables or plungers in any well-known manner and are used for transporting cars to and delivering cars from the storage floors 20 and the storage floor extensions 21. a

Each shaftway 28, 29 at the ground floor of the building is provided with an entrance doorway 32 in one and through which a car may be driven from the street directly on to the elevator platform 30. The shaftway doorways which communicate with the various storage floor extensions 21, however, are not alined with the doorways 32 but comprise relatively elongated openings 33 provided in the inner sides of the shaftways and extending from the innermost corners thereof. This arrangement of elevator doorways and shaft ways 28 and 29 together with a special carhandling mechanism mounted on the platforms 30 facilitates the convenient handling of cars at the storage floors. Preferably a pivotally mounted skeleton platform 34 is ar ranged on each of the platforms 30. This platform is axially centered with the elongated plat-form 30 as shown at the lefthand corner of Figure 4 at the time when the car is driven in through the doorway 32. It consists preferably of a pair of parallel rails 35 connected by cross-braces 36 and 37. One of the braces 37 has a pivotal connection at 38 with the platform 30 and the other crossbrace 36 carries a roller 40 travelling on a bearing plate 40 on the platform 30.

By virtue of this arrangement, when one of the elevators 30 reaches a storage floor extension 21, the swinging skeleton platform 34 may be manually or otherwise drawn partially through thedoorway 33 as seen at the upper right hand corner of Figure 4, so that a car without turning the wheels may be driven straight out as indicated by the arrow in Figure 4 and driven into any of the numerous parking places shown diagrammatically at 41. Subsequently skeleton platform 25 is pushed back into the elevator to clear the storage floor and permit the elevator to again travel in its shaftway. In Figure 4 elevator shaftway 29 accommodates a receiving elevator 30 which carries odd-sized cars to the storage floors and the shaftway 28 seem het l emeshewmmefie aeeemmedefiee the elemher 3& WQ a Q e ethe sinomee firms; m l del ivees hem thwqglx the sla itlewex dew E'r m' the, fi zego g hmmdepemlem elege m when max op rete wh m? iza ependem y of 12k o her am ye so m wed-gated and m, me system oi? the. mate; speee. 05% he other pe mlie ihe. econ mmeh eneetzlem Qfieempen ga ages-z e151 neletieely nemz lss'a -nd mits. storage; cabi s; to; be used:

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7. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at opposite sides thereof, upper and lower transverse cross-ways connecting pairs of opposite shaftways at their tops and bottoms, storage floors disposed between the banks of'shaftways and extending longitudinally therebeyond, other elevator shaftways adjacent opposite ends of the building, vertically movable conveyor elevators therein'adapted to convey cars to and from the ends of the storage floors, endless chains of car storage cabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the first mentioned shaftways and crossways, superimposed car receiving and delivery fioors for the storage cabins disposed-in the space between the shaftwaybanks and below the storage floors, driveways communicating with the receiving and delivery floors through one end of the building, and means independent of said driveways for loading and unloading the conveyor elevators.

8. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at opposite sides thereof, upper and lower transverse crossways, connecting pairs of opposite shaftways at their tops and bottoms, storage floors disposed between the banks of shaftways, other elevatorshaftways adjacent the ends of the building, vertically movable conveyor elevators therein adapted to convey cars to and from the storage floors, endless chains of car storage cabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the first mentioned shaftways and crossways, superimposed car receiving and delivery floors for the storage cablns disposed in the space between the shaftway banks and below the storage floors, and driveways communicating with the receiving and delivery floors through one end of the building. I l r 9. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at opposite sides thereof, upper and lower transverse cross-ways, connecting pairs of opposite shaftways at their tops and bottoms, storage floors disposed between the banks ofshaftwa-ys, other elevator shaftways adjacent the opposite endsof the building, vertically movable conveyor elevators therein adapted to convey cars to and from the ends of the storage floors, endless chains of car storage cabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the first mentioned shattways and crossways, superimposed car receiving'and delivery floors for the storage cabinsdi-sposed in the space between the shaft'way banks and below the storage floors, and driveway ramps connecting the recelving and delivery floors wlth the street through one end of the building.

- 10. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at opposite sides thereof,

ways adjacent the opposite ends of the building, conveyor elevators therein adapted to convey cars to and from the ends of the storage fioors, endless chains of car storage cabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the first mentioned shaftways and crossways, car receiving and delivery floors for the storage cabins disposed in the space between the shaftway banks and below the storage floors, driveways communicating with the receiving and delivery floors through one end of the building, the shaftways of the conveyor elevators having doorways'therein communicating directly with the street.

11. A relatively long narrow building of substantial height and a pair of independently operatinginterlocking car storage systems housed therein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storage cab-ins, shaftways at opposite sides of the building spaced from the ends thereof and horizontal cross-waysat the" top and bottom of the building connectingsaid shaftways, 'saidshaftways and crossways defining an orbital path for the travel of the cabins of the endless V chains, the other system including storage floors, the restricted intermediate portions of which are disposed between the banks of shaftways and the ends of which extend the a full width of the building, and conveyor elevators disposed at the ends of the building beyond the storage cabin shaftways for delivering and receiving cars from the storage floors.

1*2.'A relatively long, narrow building of substantial height and a pair of independently operating interlocking car storage systems housed therein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storage cabins, shaftways at opposite sides of the building spaced from the endsthereof and horizontal cross-ways at the top and bottom of the building connecting said shaftways, said shaftways and cross-ways defining an orbital path of travel for thecabins .ofthe' endless chains, the other system including storage floors, the intermediate portions of which are disposed between the banks of shaftways and the ends of which extend the full width of the building, conveyor elevators disposed at the ends of the building beyond the storage cabin shaftways for delivering and receiving cars from the storage fioors,superimposed loading and unloading floors for the storage cabin system arranged between the banks of shaftways and beneath the storage floors, said loading and unloading floors communicating by driveways with the street throughone end of the building. 7

13. An elevator car including a floor longer in one horizontal dimension than in the other, a track unit swivelly mounted adjacent one end on the floor, the car having a doorway in one end thereof whereby a vehicle may be rolled on to the track unit through such door when the track unit is axially alined with the floor of the car, said car also having an elongated doorway in one side thereof whereby a I vehicle may be rolled off the track unit after the latter has been swung on its swivel bearing to a position where it projects through I and beyond the said doorway.

14. A relatively long, narrow building of substantial height and a pair of independently operating interlocking car storage systems housed therein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storage cabins,

shaftways at opposite sides of the building a spaced from the ends thereof and horizontal cross-ways at the top and bottom of the building connecting said shaftways, said shaftways and crossways defining an orbital path of travel for the cabins of the endless V chains, the other system including storage floors, the intermediate portions of which extend the full width of the building, conveyor elevators disposed at the ends of the building beyond the storage cabin shaftways, for

delivering and receiving cars from the storage floors, superimposedloading and unloading floors for the storage cabin system arranged between the banks of shaftways and beneath the storage floors, said loading and unloading floors communicating by driveways with the 1 street through one end of the building, the shaftways for the conveyor elevators of the second system having doorways therein at street level communicating directly-with the outside of the building.

15. A pair of independently operating car 7 storage systems housed within a single buildlng and inter-fitting w1th each other, one system including endless trains of car storage cabins, the other system including storage floors and an elevator for feeding cars to said floors. 1

I Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New'York this 24th day of July D. 1928.

ERNST GEIGER.

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