Patents Assigned to Schenk Interservice AG
  • Patent number: 5478182
    Abstract: In an automatic parking garage with a storage silo having a circular periphery, the storage silo having a cylindrical inner shaft and including a plurality of radially positioned parking compartments opening toward the inner shaft on a plurality of stacked parking levels and with a conveying apparatus located in the inner shaft for the transportation of vehicles between at least one entrance and the parking compartments and between the parking compartments and at least one exit, the conveying apparatus including a plurality of vehicle-receiving transport surfaces which are moveable in the vertical direction and are rotatable together in a horizontal direction about a central axis, such that the transport surfaces can be positioned by vertical movement at the level of one of the parking floors, or the at least one entrance, or the at least one exit, and then, by rotation about the central axis, adjacent one of the parking compartments in the corresponding parking level: the transport surfaces as well as the pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Schenk Interservice AG
    Inventors: Fritz Hildebrand, Ulrich Wernli