US3795328A - Motor vehicles storage device - Google Patents

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US3795328A
US3795328A US00178206A US3795328DA US3795328A US 3795328 A US3795328 A US 3795328A US 00178206 A US00178206 A US 00178206A US 3795328D A US3795328D A US 3795328DA US 3795328 A US3795328 A US 3795328A
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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
    • E04H6/187—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 using vertical parking loops
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G35/00—Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for
    • B65G35/08—Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for comprising trains of unconnected load-carriers, e.g. belt sections, movable in a path, e.g. a closed path, adapted to contact each other and to be propelled by means arranged to engage each load-carrier in turn

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  • the object of the present invention is the provision of a device for the storage and/or the transport of articles of any kind and in particular of motor-vehicles, of the type known as a rotating garage and comprising a series of platforms movable along a closed circuit, each platform being adapted to support at least one motor-vehicle and to be stored in or removed from the garage in a given position along the circuit.
  • the device of the present application is of the type in which the platforms supporting the motor-vehicles are mounted freely slidably and reciprocally in contact along two parallel horizontal superposed tracks and in which there are provided transferring means, in the form of rotating arms, to transfer the platforms from one track to the other, at the ends of said tracks.
  • Said means for the transfer of the platforms, at the ends of the tracks comprise at least two pairs of arms rotating in synchronism around two horizontal axes, the ends of said arms engaging, when the arms are in the vertical position, with a platform in order to support and thereafter guide it, along a semicircular transferring path, from the horizontal upper track to the lower one, or vice-versa.
  • each transferring arm projectsbeyond its rotating axis into a second transferring arm, said arms then carrying out their function alternately with their diametrally opposite ends, and in such away that at the moment when for example one of the arms ends receives a platform from a first horizontal track, the other end abandons a different platform on the second track.
  • the rotation axes of the arms must be mutually spaced in such a way as to permit the free rotation of the respective ends in the central crossing position; as the arms rotate in the same vertical plane, the said distance must therefore be greater than the distance between the diametrally opposite ends of each group of two combined arms.
  • the size of the platform in the direction of the advancement axis must be at least slightly greater than the distance between the rotating axes of the two arms, so that the latter when assuming at the same time the vertical position may each find a corresponding supporting point of the platform.
  • the said distance between the rotating axes imposes a great limitation as it requires, in practice, that the width of each platform must necessarily be greater than the distance between the diametrally opposite ends of one double arm, i.e., the vertical distance between the two sliding tracks.
  • the said limitation is overcome by the fact that the transfer arms are simple (viz. they do not project beyond their rotating axis into a second arm, as mentioned above) so that the distance between the two parallel rotating axes can be maintained just greater than the length of one of the arms.
  • each of the arms has a length practically half the vertical distance between the two sliding tracks, the fact that the platform must have a width greater than said distance between the rotating axes, or than said reduced length of the arms, does not in practice constitute a notable limitation.
  • said structure in respect to the first embodiment in which the transferring arms take up the platform every of rotation has the disadvantage that the arms take up the platform every 360 of rotation; therefore, the platform having the same rectilinear speed along the plane tracks, the transferring arms must cover a double run in the same time, hence they must have double speed.
  • each platform is provided with three supporting points, two of which are on a first rail and one on the second rail of the tracks, and that on the side of the first rail, two double transferring arms rotate in two spaced vertical planes and are pivoted on axes spaced apart by an amount just greater than the length of one simple arm, a first arm being provided in the position near the rotating axis, with arched slots forming a guide for the bearing point of the platform on the second arm in such a way as to ensure the free passage in the position where the arms are crossed, on the side of the second rail there being provided a third sole double transferring arm, the rotating axis of which is in an intermediate position between the axes of the first two arms.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view, of the device, seen from the side of the first rail, at the end of which are combined pairs of double transferring arms;
  • FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 but seen from the side of the second rail, at the end of which there are combined single double transferring arms;
  • FIG. 3 is a partial diagrammatic view of the device
  • a series of platforms P each adapted to support for instance a motor-vehicle, is set into motion along two horizontal parallel superposed tracks, an upper one formed by rails I and 2 and a lower one formed by rails 1' and 2.
  • the platforms P bear on rail 1 by a pair of wheels 3 and 4 and on rail 2 by a further wheel 5; the axes of wheels 3, 4 and 5 are horizontal and parallel, and the axis of wheel 5 is located in an intermediate position between those of wheels 3 and 4.
  • the said wheels 3, 4 and 5 are the only three bearing points of the platform P; the effect of bearing on three points is to give great stability to the platform itself.
  • Each platform provides, in a known way, a series of pins 6 projecting from both sides, with which are engaged the toothed pinions 7 driving the advancement of the platforms along the rails, conventional intermeshing drive gearing 7 being provided for drivingly interconnecting the various rotating members in an entirely conventional manner, the drive gearing 7 in turn being driven by a conventional drive motor (not shown).
  • the said driving pinions 7 can be provided merely at the beginning and at the end of the tracks, the intermediate platforms being made to advance by pushing each other.
  • the rotation of the arm 8, 8' is synchronized in such a way, with the advancement movement imparted by the pinions 7 to the platforms, that when the arm 8, 8 is exactly vertical the axis of the wheel 5 of one platform is, in turn, on the same vertical.
  • the semicircular rail 9 implies a run of different length from and generally greater than the width of a platform, and since on the other hand it is necessary to ensure that said run is covered in a time equal to the time required by a platform to run on a track for a length equal to the width of the platform, (so that a second platform is ready to be taken up by arm 8, 8 from a first track when a first platform is abandoned by arm 8, 8 on a second track), it is obvious that the speed along run 9 must be different from and generally higher than the speed along the tracks.
  • acceleration levers 10 In order to avoid the higher peripheric speed of arm 8,8 being attained instantaneously by platforms P at the moment when they are taken up from the rails 2, there are provided acceleration levers 10.
  • the said levers 10 are rotated around their respective pivots 10' by motor means, not shown, if desired by the same gearing 7 which was previously described; said levers can engage, by their fork ends, alternatively pins 35' or 4-5' of platforms P, in order to impart an acceleration movement to the platforms themselves, until their speed is equal to the speed along rail 9.
  • rails l, l On the opposite side of the apparatus there are provided rails l, l as shown in FIG. 1. At each end of said rails there are provided instead of a single double arm 8,8 two separate double arms, respectively 12, 12 and 13, 13, which rotate in perfect synchronism with the arm 8,8.
  • the parallel horizontal rotating axes of said arms are spaced by an amount just greater than the length of one single arm, viz. than the radius of the circumference covered by the platform bearing points during their transfer.
  • the said switch comprises a rail section 15 normally aligned with rail 1, and an oblique section 15", integral with each other; said sections 15 15" are moreover adapted to oscillate around a fixed pivot (not represented).
  • the wheel 3, which slides along rail 1 from left to right in FIG. 1 can proceed beyond plane Y-Y bearing against section continuing its movement, it reaches section 15" and thanks to its weight makes the switch 15 oscillate in clockwise direction, then lifting the free end of section 15' well above the rail 1. (See the position shown on the left of FIG. 1).
  • this latter is arched and has its centre on the rotating axis of arm 13.
  • the rail 16 begins near the central zone of arm 12, 12, as is better described hereunder, and ends as a mobile section 17 having the function of a switch, similar to switch 15.
  • a switch similar to switch 15.
  • the engagement takes place in the slot which is, in turn, located in the inner side with respect to the rotating axis, and fulfills two main functions: on one hand at the crossing of the two arms 12', 13 (or 12, 13'), which rotate on briefly spaced apart vertical planes, the slot 18 or respectively 19) permits the passage of the wheel 4 (or respectively 3, at the other head of the plant) which run, as is necessary, in the same vertical plane as the wheel 3 (or respectively 4), and on the other hand it provides a transverse support for the wheel 4 (or respectively 3) just in the particularly critical zone close to a 90 angle of rotation.
  • slots 18, 19 is designed to take into consideration not only the curved path covered by wheel 4 but also the fact that the slots themselves rotate, together with the arm l2, 12', in synchronism with wheel 4.
  • this apparatus which permits the use of relatively narrow platforms, as said above, with respect to the vertical extent of the articles, viz. with respect to the vertical distance between upper and lower rails proportioned to the size of the articles themselves, it is possible to provide intermediate stopping positions also on the transfer arched runs; this can facilitate on the one hand the loading and unloading operations for the transported articles, and on the other it permits availing of a greater number of platforms (an extra one for each end of the apparatus) for a given length.
  • each track comprising a pair of rails, a first plurality of platforms mounted for movement on said first track in contact with each other, a second plurality of platforms mounted for movement on said second track in contact with each other, means for moving said platforms along said first track in one direction and along said second track in the opposite direction, and transfer means at the ends of said tracks for transferring said platforms from one track to the other, said transfer means comprising, on each side of the track, at least a transferring double arm mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis between said first and second tracks, the ends of said double arms having means to engage and carry away from said tracks one platform for every 180 of rotation of said double arms; the improvement in which each platform comprises two support wheels on one side, said wheels being mounted on projecting pins fixed to said one side of the platform, said wheels rolling on one of the two rails of a said track, there being two said transferring double arms on said one side of the platform, means mounting said two transferring double double
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 there being two double arms adjacent one side of the platforms and only a single double arm adjacent the other side of the platforms, said single double arm rotating about a horisaid passageways in one of said two double arms, said passageways comprising arched slots.
  • arched slots being concave and opening toward each other on opposite sides of said axis of said one double arm.

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US5060779A (en) * 1987-12-18 1991-10-29 Rollomatic Ab Moving ramp
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