Classifications

• • 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
  • E04H6/02—Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars
  • E04H6/06—Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars with means for shifting or lifting vehicles

Definitions

• This invention relates to a vehicle parking installation.
• Parking installations comprising a metal frame containing housings for individual automobiles and a member for transferring said automobiles from an entry station to the individual housings and from these to an exit station, which can coincide with or be separate from the entry station.
• the object of the invention is to obviate this drawback by providing a vehicle parking installation which solves the problem of small-scale use, ie which is convenient for individual dwellings or small communities in general, for which a traditional automated parking installation would be excessively costly.
• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a parking installation according to the invention in its totally filled state
• Figure 2 is a side view thereof in its rest configuration
• Figure 3 shows the same side view as Figure 2, but in its partly filled state
• Figure 4 is an enlarged partial vertical section through a part of a column with a platform raising cylinder- piston unit and a safety cylinder-piston unit;
• Figure 5 shows a different embodiment in the same view as Figure 3;
• Figure 6 shows it in enlarged horizontal section through a part of the column.
• the installation according to the invention in the embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 4 comprises a pair of columns 2 welded to two longitudinal members 4 and spaced apart by a cross-member 6.
• the longitudinal members 4 and the cross- member 6 simply rest on the ground, but could be fixed to and/or embedded in it, in which case the cross-member 6 could be dispensed with.
• Two platforms namely an upper 8 and a lower 8', can slide independently of each along the columns 2. Both these platforms consist of a pair of runways 10,10' provided with carriages 12,12' for their sliding along the columns and joined together by a connecting cross-member 14,14' positioned substantially in correspondence with said carriages 12,12 ⁇ .
• Each runway 10,10' of the two platforms 8,8' comprises at its rear end, ie the end close to the column 2, a depression 16 which, as will be apparent hereinafter, can receive the corresponding wheel 18 of an automobile 20 supported by the platform 8,8', so stabilizing its position.
• the purpose of the depression is also to restrict the overall vertical height of the platform plus automobile in that the platform itself has a certain height for obvious reasons of structural rigidity.
• the front end of the runways 10 is in the form of a downwardaly inclined ramp to facilitate the ascent of the automobile 20 onto the respective platform.
• the two platforms 8,8' are of different length, the upper platform 8 being longer than the lower platform 8' , so that when these are in their completely lowered position (see Figure 2) the two runways 10 of the upper platform 8 are superposed on the corresponding runways 10' of the lower platform 8', including at their inclined ramps.
• each column 2 which is in the form of an H-shaped structural section, houses a hydraulic cylinder- piston unit 22, the rod 24 of which emerges upperly and is provided with a deviation pulley 26 for a chain 28 which is fixed at one end to the relative column 2 and at its other end to the carriage 12' of the lower platform 8'.
• the interior of each column 2 also houses two cylinder-piston units 30 of horizontal axis, their rod 32 emerging from the facing flange of the column to form a type of latch engagable in a bush 34 provided on the corresponding carriage 12,12' which slides along said column.
• the end of the rod 32 is mushroom-shaped with its head tapering frontwards and of diameter less than the bore diameter of the bush 34.
• the two hydraulic cylinder-piston units 22 and the four cylinder-piston-units 30 are fed by a central hydraulic unit 36, which in the drawings is shown separate from the columns 2 but could be incorporated into one of them.
• the central unit 36 is preferably controlled by a microprocessor which also operates a plurality of indicating, control and safety members to ensure overall correct operation of the installation of the invention, which operates as follows: when in its rest state (see Figure 2) the lower platform 8' rests on the ground and the upper platform 8 rests on the lower platform 8' and is ready to receive an automobile 20, which is made to rise along the two runways 10 of said upper platform 8 until its two from wheels 18 reach the depression 16 provided in the runways.
• the operator After the driver has descended from the automobile, the operator operates the central unit to cause oil to be fed into the two cylinder-piston units 22 which the result that the lower platform 8' rises together with the upper platform 8 supported by it.
• the upward movement of the two platforms 8,8' stops when the bushes 34 on the upper carriages 12 face the two upper cylinder-piston units 30, an automatic command then being fed to these to cause their rods 32 to extend until the upper platform 8 is locked to the columns 2.
• the framework of the installation according to the invention extends not only above ground but also below ground.
• the platforms 8,8' have the same length and ramps 39 are removably engageable with them.
• the two columns 2 are partly housed in a pit 40 and partly project above ground level.
• the two carriages 38 are moved along the outside of these columns under the control of the two hydraulic cylinder-piston units housed within them, and are provided with two cylinder-piston units 42 the rods 44 of which are able to engage corresponding bushes provided on the sides of the carriages 12,12'.
• cylinder-piston units 30 are again provided within the columns 2 to look the platforms 8 at the predetermined heights along the columns.
• the operating principle is substantially analogous to the preceding, except for the different operating sequence imposed by the fact that the frame extends in two vertically opposite directions about the automobile access level.
• the microprocessor controlling the operating cycle sets one platform at ground level and all all the others (four) superposed one on the other at a level such as to allow an automobile to rise onto the platform positioned at ground level. After the automobile has risen onto this platform, the two motorized carriages 38 engage it and move it to the lowest level, ie resting on the base of the pit 40, after which they engage the overlying platform and move it to ground level so that it is able to receive a second automobile.
• the carriages 38 engage the entire remaining stack of platforms 8 and position the upper one at ground level. The operation then continues as in the preceding case, so that the various automobiles gradually become positioned on the various platforms starting from the most distant.
• the parking installation according to the invention is particularly advantageous in that because of its constructional simplicity, its small overall size and the reduced number of components, it solves the problem of small-scale parking in an effective, economical, space saving and operationally simple manner.

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• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Architecture (AREA)
• Civil Engineering (AREA)
• Structural Engineering (AREA)
• Refuge Islands, Traffic Blockers, Or Guard Fence (AREA)
• Body Structure For Vehicles (AREA)
• Vehicle Cleaning, Maintenance, Repair, Refitting, And Outriggers (AREA)
• Steering Control In Accordance With Driving Conditions (AREA)
• Automobile Manufacture Line, Endless Track Vehicle, Trailer (AREA)
• Fittings On The Vehicle Exterior For Carrying Loads, And Devices For Holding Or Mounting Articles (AREA)
• Motor Or Generator Cooling System (AREA)
• Braking Arrangements (AREA)
• Hybrid Electric Vehicles (AREA)
• Vehicle Interior And Exterior Ornaments, Soundproofing, And Insulation (AREA)
• Vehicle Body Suspensions (AREA)
• Time Recorders, Dirve Recorders, Access Control (AREA)
• Traffic Control Systems (AREA)
• Warehouses Or Storage Devices (AREA)

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