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
• • 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
  • E04H6/24—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 characterised by use of dollies for horizontal transport, i.e. cars being permanently parked on wheeled platforms
  • E04H6/245—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 characterised by use of dollies for horizontal transport, i.e. cars being permanently parked on wheeled platforms without transverse movement of the wheeled parking platform after leaving the transfer means

Definitions

• the invention refers to automated mechanical underground car parks constructed under the surface of streets, of any other Public Highway, and of pedestrian areas, around the inner or outer perimeter of squares and other public or private spaces.
• the existing other mechanical car parks are constructed underground or over-ground in public or private areas.
• These car parks occupy large areas of land belonging to the State and/or private companies and are not usually situated near the driver's place of work or home. They have a capacity for a minimum percentage of cars; the result of this is the continuation of illegal parking on the streets and the hindrance of traffic.
• the price of land for these car parks require large amounts of money to be invested, a fact that makes them disadvantageous.
• the advantage of this invention is that it is constructed by the State and/or the Municipal- ity, by self-finance methods or by private companies and ensures that most of the residents of every house or apartment building will have permanent and safe parking spaces in front of their houses.
• This also offers alternate parking with a parking meter in places that many people gather, i.e. Courts, malls, Public Services Buildings etc. that are located in the centre of the city. It also requires less financial investment because buying or expropriation of private building plots is not needed because it can be constructed in a public area. It will also derive a substantial profit from selling or renting the parking areas or the alternate parking with a time-limit parking meter.
• a waterproof and compact longitudinal tunnel is constructed by the moulding, construction of supporting walls, the tunnel flooring and roof.
• the reinforced concrete units that form the tunnel can be made of prefabricated concrete, inside which there will be channels for the electromechanical installations. These units will be sunk into the trench which is opened, either whole or in sections and are mounted to one another with a watertight joint.
• Another alternative is that the excavation is made by opening an underground tunnel and stabilizing the inner walls by reinforced concrete. After completion, the street is immediately open to traffic. The remaining mechanical and electrical installations are completed underground inside the tunnel without any further disturbance to the traffic. It is noted that there is the possibility that the surface parking spaces on the street remain as they were before.
• Figure 1 is showing a mechanical underground car park under a street or pedestrian area using only one tunnel (1) and only one trailer (6) that moves on a set of fixed rail tracks (5) and carries the platforms (7) which are as many as the parking spaces and they are descending to the level of the tunnel floor either by the use of piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator systems/devices. So, a series of constant parking spaces are ensured at the floor level.
• Figure 2 refers to the exact same system of mechanical underground car park but with the use of two parallel tunnels (1) and (2) and a perpendicular tunnel (3) the use of which is for the communication between the tunnels (1) and (2). Otherwise, the parking is in both tunnels as in fig.1.
• the tunnel (1) is constructed the same way as in fig.l and fig.2 with the difference that for every car there is a different trailer (6) which is at the same time a platform (7) that moves on two sets of metallic rail tracks (5) and each set is placed at a different level of the tunnel (1).
• the trailer-platform (6) and (7) moves horizontally, reaches the end of the tunnel (1) and it is occasionally ascending or descending by the assistance either of piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator system/device and ensures a clockwise or counter-clockwise interminable movement for all the system.
• the tunnel (1) is constructed deeper, in order to create three horizontal levels where the trailer (6) moves on the rails (5) at the middle level of the tunnel (1) and two levels for storing the platforms (7) are created, one up on supporting bars (13) or other securing system and one down to the floor of the tunnel (1).
• the piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator systems/devices that are mounted on the sides of the trailer (6) ascend or descend and transfer the platforms (7) to their storing positions.
• one trench fig.l, fig.3 and fig.4
• more trenches are created by the excavation of the ground from the street level and downwards.
• the first tunnel (1) in all the four figures has one or more openings at the roof for the vertical entrance and exit of the cars. After the forming of the tunnels (1), (2), and (3) has been completed, the street is repaved and is re-opened to traffic.
• a smaller tunnel (4) is constructed by being excavated from inside the tunnel (1) and is con- solidated by supporting walls, roof, and tunnel flooring constructed by GUNITE, at the same floor level as tunnel (1). Therefore, there is no damage to the pipes of the water distribution system, the sewerage, the electric company distribution system, the telephone company distribution system, the gas company distribution system, optic fibres etc., installations that pass through a small depth under the pavement level.
• This second tunnel (4) is communicating with tunnels (1), (2) and (3) through fire-proof doors, one per parking space and is used by the maintenance personnel of the mechanical underground car park.
• the tunnel (4) can be embodied in tunnel (1) (fig.4), as well as two or three levels can be formed for the transference of the maintenance personnel.
• enclosures (10) are constructed with entrance and exit garage-door systems that protect the opening from unauthorised persons and the seepage of rainwater. Following that, the mobile and the standing mechanical installations are installed in the tunnels.
• a set of horizontal rail tracks (5) are assembled halfway through the height of the tunnel, on which the one and only trailer (6) moves.
• the trailer (6) is consisted of a metallic perimetric frame with externally mounted wheels like or similar to train carriage wheels, so as to enable it to travel on or along the set of rail tracks (5); internally there is a clear/free space, this clear/free internal space being the same size as the platform (7), so that the platform (7) is allowed to be raised or lowered through the trailer (6) together with the car/vehicle placed upon it.
• Each platform (7) can be placed on the tunnel's (1) and (2) (fig.l and fig.2) floor by the assistance, either of vertically moving piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator systems/devices which are placed on the floor and corresponds with one system for every parking space.
• vertically moving piston-driven (15) levers (9) or any other elevator systems/devices which are placed on the floor and corresponds with one system for every parking space.
• Inside the tunnel (1) (fig.3) two sets of fixed horizontal rail tracks (5) are installed, one set at the middle level of the tunnel and one at the tunnel's floor. Under the entering/exiting openings, a piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device is assembled, in order to receive the trailer-platform (6) and (7) and transfer it, either to the middle level or the floor level of the tunnel on the corresponding rails (5).
• a piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device is assembled, in order to receive the trailer-platform
• the trailer (6) is consisted of a metallic perimetric frame with externally mounted wheels like or similar to train carriage wheels, so as to enable it to travel on or along the set of rails (5), internally there is a clear/free space, this clear/free internal space being the same size as the platform (7), so that the platform (7) is allowed to be raised or lowered through the trailer (6) together with the car/vehicle placed upon it.
• piston-driven (15) levers (9) mounted on the sides of its metallic frame.
• the piston-driven (15) levers (9) are installed on both the over side and on the under side of the metallic frame and by the assistance of anchor pins (14) they angle the platform (7) and either they raise it and place it upon the supporting bars (13) that are found at the upper level of the tunnel (1), or by pass- ing through the internally clear/free part of the trailer (6) they lay it down on the floor of the tunnel (1).
• the driver is driving on the street and in order to park he stops at the waiting zone, when his turn arrives, he in- serfs his card in the parking meter (11), after that, the entrance garage-door of the enclosure (10) opens and he drives in and steps on the platform (7) that has previously been raised to street level and has blocked the entrance - exit opening of the tunnel (1).
• the driver locks his car and leaves through the entrance door (garage-door) which is secured automatically.
• the car then descends carried by the platform (7) which by the assistance, either of piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device is placed on the trailer (6) that rests underneath it, the platform (7) is then secured by anchor pins (14), the trailer (6) then moves on the rails (5) and by the assistance of an automated system (computer), finds the nearest empty parking space, over which it is immobilized again. Afterwards, (fig.l and fig.2) from the floor of the empty parking space, the piston- driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator system/device is raised and after it unlocks the anchor pins (14), it takes the platform (7) with the car upon it and passes through the internally clear/free part of the trailer (6).
• the piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator system/device and platform (7) then descend vertically until they reach the floor of the tunnel where the car/vehicle is parked. Otherwise, as in figures 4, 5, 6 and 7, the piston- driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator systems/devices which are mounted on the trailer (6), by the assistance of anchor pins (14), take the platform (7) with the car and by passing through the internally clear/free part of the trailer (6), either they ascend (fig.6) and place them upon supporting bars (13), or they descend (fig.7) and place them on the floor of the tunnel (1).
• the trailer (6) is then released in order to receive the next car that is wait- ing on the street or to go to another parking space where a car, parked in the tunnel is being called through the parking meter (11), by its driver, to exit the car park.
• the reverse procedure is followed, that is that the driver, re-uses the same card that he had collected at the parking meter (11) during the parking procedure.
• (fig.l and fig.2) automatically the trailer (6) is guided over the parked car that is on the platform (7), which either by the assistance of the piston-driven (15) levers (9), or any other elevator system/device passes inside the clear/free part of the trailer (6) and is secured on it by anchor pins (14).
• the trailer (6) is guided between the parked cars that are on the platforms (7).
• One is above the trailer (6), on supporting bars (13) and the other underneath it, on the floor.
• either the trailer's upper piston-driven (15) levers (9), or other elevator systems/devices ascend (fig.6) in order to receive the platform (7) with the car upon it, from the supporting bars (13) by the assistance of anchor pins (14), or the trailer's (6) lower piston-driven (15) levers (9), or other elevator systems/devices, descend (fig.7) in order to receive the platform (7) with the car upon it, from the floor of the tunnel (1) by the assistance of anchor pins (14).
• the trailer (6) moves until the position of the tunnel (1) opening, where it is stabilized and by the assistance either of the piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device the platform (7) is freed from the anchor pins (14), raised and passed through the opening up to the street level inside the enclosure (10) where it is secured.
• the exit garage-door of the enclosure (10) opens; the driver enters his car and leaves the enclosure (10). After the departure of the car, the exit garage-door is secured automatically by the use of a photocell mechanism.
• the double piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device ascends, and takes the car with the trailer-platform (6) and (7) on which it is mounted and then brings it to the middle level or the floor level of the tunnel (1), it is then placed onto the rails (5) of the corresponding level, afterwards, the trailer-platform (6) and (7) moves horizontally on the rails (5), either clockwise or counter-clockwise until it reaches the end of the tunnel (1) where it ascends or descends to the next level where it moves constantly together with the rest of the platforms during the parking and exiting procedure of other cars. This lasts until the car is called to exit the car park, then the reversed procedure is followed.
• the trailer-platform (6) and (7) arrives underneath the superficial opening of the tunnel (1), the piston-driven (15) levers (8), or any other elevator system/device carries the trailer-platform (6) and (7) with the car upon it through the superficial opening to the street level, inside the enclosure (10), from where the car is ready to depart.
• the parking spaces have the same standard dimensions, and the length of the tunnels, for all the cases, depends on the number of the cars that are to be parked, and of course, is determined by the speed that is pursued for the time of parking or exiting the car park.
• the tunnels (1) and (2) (fig.l, 2, 3 and 4), left and right along the roof, there is enough space for the pipes of different calibres to pass through, i.e., the water distribution system, the sewerage, the electric company distribution system, the telephone company distribution system, the gas company distribution system, optic fibres etc., which are this way accessible in case of damage.
• the tunnel is excavated and formed deeper, so that space is left for filling up between the street level (asphalt) and the upper side of the slab that covers the tunnels (1), (2) and (3), in order for the pipes of different calibres to pass through the filling.
• ventilators come out on the pavement for air recycling inside the tunnels (1), (2), (3) and the maintenance personnel tunnel (4). Air recycling is done through a ventilation system.

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