U.S. patent application number 10/487487 was filed with the patent office on 2004-10-21 for building and parking system.
Invention is credited to Dick, Manfred.
Application Number | 20040206016 10/487487 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 26009939 |
Filed Date | 2004-10-21 |
United States Patent
Application |
20040206016 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Dick, Manfred |
October 21, 2004 |
Building and parking system
Abstract
The invention relates to a building (1) with several levels,
several utilisable units (3,4) accessible only with right of access
and a vertical conveyor (7) with which vehicles (16, 17) are
transported to parking places (12, 13). The utilisable units (3, 4)
and the parking space associated (12, 13) therewith are arranged
respectively on a common level and parking places are integrated in
the utilisable units (3, 4). The invention also relates to a
parking system for said building
Inventors: |
Dick, Manfred; (Duren,
DE) |
Correspondence
Address: |
WILLIAM COLLARD
COLLARD & ROE, P.C.
1077 NORTHERN BOULEVARD
ROSLYN
NY
11576
US
|
Family ID: |
26009939 |
Appl. No.: |
10/487487 |
Filed: |
February 23, 2004 |
PCT Filed: |
August 21, 2002 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/DE02/03124 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
52/79.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
E04H 6/181 20130101;
E04H 14/00 20130101; E04H 1/04 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
052/079.1 |
International
Class: |
E04H 001/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Aug 21, 2001 |
DE |
101 39 948.0 |
Apr 23, 2002 |
DE |
102 18 028.8 |
Claims
1. A building (1) with several levels, comprising several
utilizable units (3, 4) accessible only with right of access and a
vertical conveyor (7, 110) by means of which vehicles (16, 17, 43)
are transported to parking places (12, 13), with the utilizable
units (3, 4) and the parking places (12, 13) associated with the
same each being arranged on a common level, characterized in that
parking places (12, 13) are integrated in utilizable units (3,
4).
2. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein least one parking
place (12, 13) on at least one level is delimited at one of its
longitudinal sides (14, 15) by a facade plane (9).
3. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein a longitudinal side
(14, 15) of the parking place (12, 13) which is delimited by the
facade plane (9) is at least partly transparent.
4. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein a longitudinal side
(14, 15) of the parking place (12, 13) which is delimited by the
facade plane (9) is at least partly glazed.
5. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vertical conveyor
(7) forms a part of the facade plane with at least one vertical
bordering surface (8).
6. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein two parking places
(12, 13) arranged on a level are arranged on mutually opposite
sides of the vertical conveyor (7).
7. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein two parking places
(12, 13) arranged on opposite sides of the vertical conveyor (7)
are mutually connected via a gate area (6) which comprises lockable
connecting doors (V, V') to the parking places (12, 13) and a
lockable passageway (19) to a staircase area (5).
8. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vertical conveyor
(7) is connected on an entrance and exit plane at two mutually
opposite sides (10, 11) to a traffic area (23) each.
9. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein differently large
parking places (12, 13) are arranged on mutually opposite sides of
the vertical conveyor (7), which parking places are assigned to
differently large utilizable areas (3, 4).
10. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein a separating wall (T,
T') between a parking place (12, 13) and an associated utilizable
area (3, 4) is at least partly glazed.
11. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein a vehicle (43) can be
conveyed by means of a floor conveyor device (110) from the
vertical conveyor (7) to a parking place (12, 13).
12. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein a booking device by
means of which the uses of the vertical conveyor (7) as performed
with access authorization can be debited to an account associated
with said access authorization.
13. A building as claimed in claim 1, wherein vehicles (16, 17, 43)
are conveyed by means of a vertical conveyor (7) in a shaft which
is composed of stacked shaft modules on which parking places
modules are arranged on the side.
14. A parking system for a building (1) with several levels and
several utilizable units (3, 4) only accessible with access
authorization, which system comprises a vertical conveyor (7) and
parking places (12, 13) for vehicles (16, 17, 43) which can be
associated to the utilizable units (3, 4), wherein ill that the
parking places (12, 13) can be integrated in the utilizable units
(3, 4) and a vehicle (16, 17, 43) can be conveyed to a parking
place (12, 13) associated with a utilizable unit (3, 4) by means of
the vertical conveyor (7) only with access authorization with
respect to said utilizable unit (3, 4).
Description
[0001] The invention relates to a building with several levels,
comprising several utilizable units accessible only with right of
access and a vertical conveyor by means of which vehicles are
transported to parking places, with the utilizable units and the
parking places associated with the same each being arranged on a
common level.
[0002] A multi-level building typically comprises traffic areas and
units for private or commercial use. Traffic areas are
substantially used for reaching a plurality of utilizable units by
persons or vehicles and are publicly or freely accessible at least
for the purpose of utilizing the connected utilizable units.
Utilizable units which are publicly accessible are substantially
vertically acting conveyor devices with discontinuous operation
such as passenger or freight elevators.
[0003] Utilizable units are used for example for housing, office or
business purposes and should generally not be accessible to users
of other utilizable units (especially where private apartments are
concerned), but only with authorization. The authorization for
access to a utilizable unit is usually granted by means of a key
that fits a locking system, e.g. through a magnetic, chip or
transponder card, the entry of an access code or by means of
release triggering by a person authorized for this (doorkeeper,
porter).
[0004] The increasing problematic parking situation in particular
close to residential and commercial areas in small and large cities
has long been the subject of investigations and scientific studies
with a large number of proposals for solutions. They have
increasingly led to the development of buildings offering parking
close to residences and workplaces, especially in buildings
which--as described in claim 1--offer parking places for vehicles
in the same level on which the privately or commercially used
utilizable units are located.
[0005] Such a building is known for example from DE OS 1 559 303.
It concerns a so-called multi-level parking tower with a lifting
platform configured in the form of a turntable with which the
vehicles are displaceable in the vertical direction. The parking
places extend in a radial manner over the circumference of the
lifting platform, with a residential area being formed between the
mutually adjacent double parking places, which residential area has
a triangular shape. On the one hand, the conveyor device in the
known building which is provided in the form of the rotatable
lifting platform is comparatively complex in its construction. On
the other hand, the known building must be regarded as critical for
reasons of fire protection as a result of the plurality of the
vehicles housed per level (two per housing unit). Finally, there is
an additional disadvantage in that the known building concerns a
closed construction which is not suitable to retrofit parking
places close to residential areas in existing buildings.
[0006] A further building of this kind is known from JP 4-176971 A.
According to this specification, two vertical conveyors are placed
in front of the facade of a building and a parking place is
arranged between the same on each level. The parking places border
on each level to a corridor extending along the facade and through
which it is possible to reach the utilizable units and the
staircase. It is proposed in JP 4-247168 A to arrange in front of
the facade of a building a plurality of parking places along the
facade, which parking places are accessed via running ways
extending in front of said parking places. JP 2001-012097-A
discloses a building of this kind which is equipped in the interior
with a vertical elevator by means of which vehicles can be conveyed
to parking levels in the building. In the embodiment according to
this specification, a parking level comprises eight parking places
which are associated with four utilizable units.
[0007] The use of parking places by motor vehicles in the ultimate
vicinity of the utilizable units requires special security features
for the users, on the one hand concerning the access authorization
and on the other hand with respect to securing the entrances and
exits for protecting children at play for example.
[0008] The invention is further based on the object of constructing
a building which ensures the secure parking of vehicles and a
secure passage to the utilizable unit. The construction is
preferably to be simple, variable in its application and offer a
visually appealing design and should also allow it to be
retrofitted to existing buildings.
[0009] Based on the current state of the art, this object is
achieved by the invention in such a way that the parking places are
integrated in the utilizable units. In such a building, the parking
places of publicly accessible utilizable units and traffic areas
are separated by constructional measures, but direct access from a
parking place to residential, office or business premises of the
utilizable unit is enabled.
[0010] Users can reach a parked car securely and at a direct route
from the rooms of the apartment or office or vice-versa, or use a
parking place as a terrace or loggia. The parking place thus
belongs directly to the private sphere of the respective utilizable
unit and can be reached by the utilizable unit without having to
use publicly accessible traffic areas (corridors, staircases,
etc.), so that the risk of being attacked is clearly reduced as
compared with conventional parking places (on the road or in
underground garages). Moreover, the risk of a vehicle theft and
vandalism of the vehicle is substantially lowered because the
accessibility of the parking places for unauthorized persons is
made much more difficult. In connection with level apartments, the
impression of a one-family house with a garage "on the x.sup.th
level" is thus obtained in connection with the flat.
[0011] In a preferred embodiment, at least one parking place on at
least one level is delimited in a building in accordance with the
invention at one of its longitudinal sides by a facade plane. Such
an arrangement of parking places allows creating a wide connection
between the parking place and the ambient environment, e.g. by
cross sections that are permanently free or can be opened. This
allows a substantially unobstructed discharge of smoke in the case
of a fire of a vehicle parked in such a parking place and a
comparatively favorable accessibility of the parking place for
fire-fighting water jets of the fire brigade. In comparison with
the parking place arrangement in the building as known from DE OS 1
559 303, the vertical surface of the parking place as integrated in
the facade plane is double if a length-to-width ratio for such
parking places of approximately 2:1 is assumed. Different
advantageous embodiments for such a building in accordance with the
invention are obtained when the vertical conveyor and the parking
places are attached to a facade to the outside or are integrated in
the same partially or completely.
[0012] In order to offer an appealing view for the viewer of the
building in respect of the arrangement of the parking places in
accordance with the invention, it is provided that a longitudinal
side of a parking place which is delimited by the facade plane is
at least partly transparent. Such a transparency can be achieved by
means of glazing or alternatively also by means of a wire fabric or
any other light-transparent facade elements.
[0013] It is further especially advantageous when the conveyor
device forms a part of the facade plane with at least one vertical
bordering surface. Such an arrangement of the conveyor device
allows on the one hand the retrofitting of existing buildings with
parking places close to residential or business areas and an
associated conveyor device for the vehicles. The integration of the
conveyor device in the facade or its at least partial arrangement
in front of the facade further allows an arrangement of the parking
places close to the facade in a simple manner, such that one
longitudinal side of the parking places is delimited by a facade
plane. This, on the other hand, leads to the previously explained
advantages whereby the traffic areas on the individual levels are
minimized.
[0014] An especially advantageous embodiment of the building in
accordance with the invention is that two parking places arranged
on one level are arranged on opposite sides of the conveyor device.
This leads to an especially advantageous successive arrangement
parallel to the facade of a parking place, an interposed conveyor
device as well as a further parking place. Such an arrangement also
forms an especially striking design feature of a facade from an
artistic-architectural viewpoint, especially when the conveyor
device and/or the parking places as well as the vehicles parked
thereon can also be recognized by viewers of the building from the
outside as such. Moreover, the required space for housing and
transporting the vehicles is very small. In particular, steering
movements during the entrance into and exit from the parking place
can be avoided entirely.
[0015] In a further development of the invention it is proposed
that two parking places which are arranged on opposite sides of the
conveyor device are mutually connected through a gate area which
comprises lockable connecting doors to the parking places and a
lockable passage to the staircase area. The conveyor device and the
two parking places arranged on opposite sides thus belong to a kind
of outside region of the building and can therefore be connected
with the ambient environment through large ventilation cross
sections. The actual interior space of the building only begins
after the lockable connecting doors, i.e. with the gate area. It is
sufficient when merely one such staircase area is present because
the same can be reached via the gate area by at least two parking
places. Moreover, there is thus (as seen from the parking place) a
second escape route which does not lead through the utilizable unit
itself but through the gate area to the staircase area. It this
also ensured that pedestrians who use the staircase area with a
separate passenger elevator preferably arranged therein need not
access the area of the conveyor device as used by the vehicles and
the parking places. Especially in the winter months or in the case
of inclement weather it is thus avoided that dirt from the area of
the conveyor device and the parking places is carried directly into
areas with a residential, office, business or similar use.
[0016] An especially favorable connection of the conveying device
to the traffic areas enclosing the building is obtained when the
conveyor device is connected on an entrance and exit level (which
is usually the ground floor level) at two mutually opposite sides
to a traffic area. This allows entering the conveyor device in a
forward manner, to park the car on a parking place of a random
level and, after the return of the vehicle to the entrance and exit
level, to leave the conveyor in a forward manner again, but this
time on the opposite side of the conveyor device. A rearwardly
directed shunting of the vehicle which is especially undesirable in
the region of pavements or in the case of restricted space or
limited visibility is thus entirely avoided.
[0017] It is further provided according to the invention that
differently large parking places are arranged on opposite sides of
the conveyor device, which parking places are associated with
differently large areas with a residential, office, business or
similar use. A small-size apartment or a flat can thus be assigned
a parking place for a small two-seat car, whereas a larger
apartment which is also suitable for families for example has a
respectively large parking place which is also suitable for housing
a middle-class vehicle or van.
[0018] It is further especially advantageous that a separating wall
between a parking place and an associated area with residential,
office, business or other use is glazed at least in part in order
to thus allow visual contact between the parking place and the
associated residential or office area.
[0019] In an especially preferable embodiment of a building in
accordance with the invention a vehicle can be conveyed by means of
a floor conveyor device from the vertical conveyor to a parking
place. The vehicle "drives" in the interior of the building without
its own drive, so that the emissions unavoidable in the operation
of combustion engines will not occur. The requirements placed on
the ventilating and aerating equipment of the building are reduced
on the one hand and the convenience increases on the other hand.
The disturbance by noise by starting engines is reduced
significantly, so that it is possible to substantially omit the use
of noise-insulating materials and constructional elements. The
difficult driving and steering skills demanded by the driver of the
vehicle in entering or leaving the parking places are reduced, as
frequently occur in the very narrow parking garages according to
the state of the art.
[0020] Preferably, the building has a booking device by means of
which the uses of the vertical conveyor as performed with access
authorization can be debited to an account associated with said
access authorization. The operation of a vertical conveyor for
motor vehicles entails considerably higher costs than the operation
of the known passenger elevators, so that an at least partial
individual billing of the actual utilization processes with the
respective users would be appropriate.
[0021] The vertical conveyor and the parking places for a building
in accordance with the invention are preferably prefabricated as
modules which each comprise a shaft module and optionally a parking
place module arranged to the side of the same.
[0022] The invention finally comprises a parking system for a
building with several levels and several utilizable units which are
only accessible with access authorization, which parking system
comprises a vertical conveyor and the parking places for the
vehicles which are assignable to the utilizable units. The parking
places can be integrated in the utilizable units and a vehicle can
be conveyed by means of the vertical conveyor to a parking place
assigned to the same only with access authorization with respect to
a utilizable unit.
[0023] Such a functional unit is especially suitable to realize
parking places in already existing buildings, which parking places
are positioned in front of the existing facade and are each
associated to a residential, office, business or similar area with
similar use. As a result of the special alignment of the parking
places, the fire protection regulations can be fulfilled in a
reliable fashion and existing development concepts can
substantially be maintained. As a result of the attached
construction of the functional unit, it will immediately be
recognized as such from the outside, thus leading to possibilities
for positioning the vehicles in a potential advertising manner on
the parking places retrofitted in accordance with the invention or
during the transport in a glazed conveyor device for example.
[0024] The invention is now explained in closer detail by reference
to an embodiment shown in the drawings, wherein:
[0025] FIG. 1 shows the layout of a first level with two
residential units;
[0026] FIG. 1a shows an alternative layout with two residential
units;
[0027] FIG. 2 shows a layout of second level with two office
units;
[0028] FIG. 3 shows a layout of a ground level with the connection
of a conveyor device to the traffic areas;
[0029] FIG. 4 shows an alternative layout design in the ground
floor;
[0030] FIG. 5 shows a perspective front view of the building;
[0031] FIG. 6 shows a schematic representation of the control
system;
[0032] FIG. 7 shows schematic representation of driving into the
vertical conveyor, and
[0033] FIG. 8 shows a schematic representation of driving out of
the vertical conveyor.
[0034] FIG. 1 shows a schematic layout of a multi-storey building 1
which to the right and left of an imaginary axis 2 comprises a
first smaller residential unit 3 with a floor area of approximately
105 square meters and a larger residential unit 4 with a floor area
of approximately 120 square meters. A staircase area 5, a gate area
6 and a vertical conveyor 7 for conveying motor vehicles in the
vertical direction are arranged successively on the axis 2. The
vertical conveyor 7 which extends from the ground level or even
basement level up to the top level forms a part of a facade plane 9
together with a vertical bordering surface 8, which facade plane
extends in a straight line along the associated side of the
building 1. The vertical conveyor 7 comprises a rectangular cross
section whose length and width exceeds the length and width
dimensions of conventional motor vehicles by a certain amount. A
parking place 12, 13 is each adjacent to the opposite face sides 10
and 11 of the cross section of the vertical conveyor 7, with the
longitudinal axes of said parking places extending parallel to the
facade plane 9. The parking places 12, 13 are therefore each
delimited at their longitudinal sides 14, 15 by the facade plane 9.
A two-seat small vehicle 16 is schematically shown on the parking
place 12 with the smaller floor area, which parking place is
associated with residential unit 3, whereas the parking place 13
which is arranged on the other side of the vertical conveyor 7 and
is associated with the residential unit 4 is occupied by a
middle-class motor vehicle 17 which is shown in a schematic manner.
Both residential units 3 and 4 can each by accessed via an access
Z, e.g. in the form of a glass door, directly from the associated
parking places 12, 13. The separating walls T and T' between the
parking places 12, 13 and the residential units 3, 4 are designed
in full or in part in glass in order to allow visual contact from
the residential units 3, 4 to the vehicles 16, 17 situated on the
parking places 12, 13, which may be desired where historical or
luxury vehicles are concerned.
[0035] One longitudinal side 18 of the cross section of the
vertical conveyor 7 which is averted from the facade plane 9 is
adjacent to the gate area 6 whose length exceeds that of the cross
section of the vertical conveyor 7, so that there is a connection
between the two parking places 12 and 13 for persons insofar as
there is an authorization for opening the respective connecting
doors V, V' between the parking places 12, 13 and the gate area 6.
A passageway 19 produces a connection between the gate area 6 and
the staircase area 5 which is associated similarly to the two
residential units 3 and 4. A passenger elevator 20 is arranged
adjacent to the opposite facade at the end of the staircase area 5
averted from the gate area 6 and the vertical conveyor 7. The
access from the vertical conveyor 7 to one of the parking places
12, 13 as well as the actuation of the respective connecting doors
V, V' between the parking places 12, 13 and the gate area 6 and the
access to the associated residential unit 3, 4 is only possible by
means of the chip card associated to the respective residential
unit. The access from the parking places 12, 13 to the respectively
associated residential unit 3, 4 is not secured with such measures
however. The parking places 12, 13 are thus integrated in the
respectively associated residential unit 3, 4 and form with the
same a uniform, private utilizable unit. It is thus possible for
example after a shopping trip with the vehicle 16, 17 to access the
own, enclosed parking place 12, 13 by using the chip card in order
to unload the vehicle 16, 17 in a protected and undisturbed
manner.
[0036] FIG. 1a shows a layout as an alternative to FIG. 1 in which
there is no gate area. There are two accesses Z which each connect
the parking places 12, 13 with the entrance hall or the kitchen of
the residential units 3, 4.
[0037] FIG. 2 shows a layout of the same building 1 as shown in
FIG. 1 on another level on which the two parking places 12, 13 are
each associated with a larger and a comparatively smaller office
unit 21 and 22. The connection between the gate area 6 and the
staircase area 5 is unchanged relative to the layout according to
FIG. 1.
[0038] FIG. 3 shows a layout on the ground floor level. The cross
section of the vertical conveyor 7 is connected at both face sides
10 and 11 each to a traffic area 23 which concerns an entrance and
a traffic area 24 which concerns an exit. The two traffic areas 23
and 24 jointly form an oval halved in the longitudinal direction
together with the cross-sectional surface of the vertical conveyor
7, which oval falls back behind the facade plane 9 into the
interior of the building 1 (but only in the region of the ground
level). The traffic surface 24 is crossed by an access surface 25
which is indicated by parallel cross lines and leads to a staircase
area.
[0039] FIG. 4 shows an alternative variant where the access 25 and
the traffic surface 24 forming the exit do not cross each other,
which is why the likelihood of an accident is thus further
minimized. The separation of the traffic areas 23 and 24 for the
vehicles and traffic area 25 for the pedestrians causes in total a
slightly larger need for traffic surfaces with simultaneously
slightly restricted available space for the access for persons and
the exit for cars from building 1.
[0040] It is understood that the entrance and exit directions into
and from the vertical conveyor 7 can be exchanged. If desired, each
of the traffic surfaces 23 can be used both as an entrance as well
as an exit. In all cases the advantage is maintained that, apart
from getting and leaving a parking space in a reverse direction on
the respective level, there is no rearwardly required shunting when
entering or leaving the building 1, especially in regions where
there is pedestrian traffic.
[0041] FIG. 5 shows a perspective front view of the building 1
whose facade plane 9 is formed in the indicated section by the
vertical bordering surface 8 of the vertical conveyor 7 and,
connected at the face side to the vertical conveyor 7, by the
longitudinal sides of the two parking places 12, 13 which are
directly adjacent to the vertical conveyor 7. Since the lateral
bordering surfaces of the parking places 12 and 13 which are
integrated in the facade plane 9 are left completely open (apart
from the filigree banisters not shown in FIG. 5), an interesting
view is obtained for the viewer of the building 1 which allows
recognizing all vehicles 16, 17 which are housed on all levels on
the parking places 12 and 13. If the vertical conveyor 7 is glazed
for example, the transported vehicle can also be recognized from
the outside. At times at which the parking places 12 or 13 are not
engaged with vehicles 16 or 17, the parking places 12 or 13 can be
used as loggias for example.
[0042] For cost reasons the opposite arrangement of two parking
places 12 and 13 is favorable, because two parking places 12, 13
can be realized per level and vertical conveyor 7, which parking
places are both arranged directly adjacent to the facade plane 9
and can therefore be realized under a fire-protection aspect
without any major problems. The required space is especially
low.
[0043] FIG. 5 finally shows that on the ground level the traffic
areas 23 and 24 used as entrance and exit reach in a semi-oval
manner into the regions behind the facade plane 9. In this way it
is possible to drive in a forward manner into the vertical conveyor
7 on the ground floor level and also to leave the building 1 in a
forward manner when leaving the same. An access area 25 crosses the
traffic area 24 and leads to a staircase arranged behind the
vertical conveyor 7.
[0044] FIG. 6 schematically shows the problem concerning security
and access authorization for the use and control of the vertical
conveyor 110. It is provided that only the respective owner/tenant
of a utilizable unit can access his or her parking place with the
vertical conveyor 110. Another parking place can only be accessed
with a respective authorization.
[0045] FIG. 6 thus schematically shows a control system 90 which
comprises the respective level sensors 91, 91a through 94, 94a.
They respond exclusively to a respective portable transmitter or
transponder 95 with the level code. This system is only exemplary
for other encodable recognition and control systems, e.g. with
insert cards, keys or phonetic signal recognition devices.
[0046] The control system 90 consists of a computer-memory-printer
unit in which the use times of the actual respective level drives
are stored in order to determine the respective energy costs of the
respective user. It can be provided that the vertical conveyor 110,
after the unloading on a level above the ground floor,
automatically returns to the ground floor after the expiration of a
predetermined time.
[0047] All parking places can be equipped with respective fume
ventilating and fire extinguishing systems (not shown in closer
detail). For the purpose of preventing any blinding of the
neighbors, the parking places can be provided with light screens.
For the purpose of reducing the noise emission values, all visible
surfaces of the parking places are lined with noise-absorbing
materials.
[0048] In order to reduce the sound emissions to the highest
possible extent and in order to increase the comfort and security
for the users, the module consisting of opposite parking places and
the vertical conveyor 110 and associated with one level is equipped
with an automatic vehicle floor conveyor device 120 acting in the
horizontal direction whose function is shown schematically in FIGS.
7 and 8. Such a floor conveyor device 120 is known from car washing
systems. A three-member floor conveyor device 120 is provided for
the module. In FIG. 7a the vehicle 43 stands in front of the
vertical conveyor 110. The left front and rear wheel is situated
between two guide rails 70, 71. A mechanically driven roller 72
pushes the vehicle 43 at the rear wheel partly in the vertical
conveyor 110. As soon as the vehicle 43 has reached this position
(FIG. 7b), a further mechanically driven roller 73 (FIG. 7c) of the
vertical conveyor 110 pushes the vehicle 43 at the front wheel
forward to the position as shown in FIG. 7d, so that after reaching
this position the elevator doors will close automatically and the
vehicle 43 can be moved vertically.
[0049] After the completion of the vertical transport, the vehicle
doors will open and a roller 74 of the vertical conveyor 110 pushes
the vehicle 43 to the position as shown in FIG. 8b, so that
thereafter the roller 75 (FIG. 8c) conveys the vehicle to the
parking position as shown in FIG. 8d. The displacement process is
repeated in reverse order when leaving the parking position.
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