Abstract: A parking apparatus having at least two parking areas, on each of which a motor vehicle can be parked. The parking apparatus includes at least one movable parking area which is movable relative to at least one fixed parking area. In order to simplify the charging of electrically operable motor vehicles, the parking apparatus is combined with a charging apparatus for charging electrical energy accumulators of electrically operable motor vehicles. The charging apparatus is simultaneously connectable in terms of charging to electrically operable motor vehicles on both parking areas.

Abstract: A two-story parking apparatus includes: a supporting frame, an upper platform pivotally mounted by a shaft on an upper portion of the supporting frame, a tilting device operatively forwarding the upper platform to bias the upper platform about the shaft for tilting the upper platform for providing an inclined ramp adapted for a downwardly removing of an upper car from the upper platform towards a ground floor or for an upward parking of the upper car through the inclined ramp from the floor to be loaded on the upper platform, a restoring device for retracting the upper platform to be normally horizontally held on the supporting frame, and a drag device secured to a rear portion of the upper platform for simultaneously rearwardly pulling a lower platform on which a lower car is parked to prevent damage of the lower car by the inclined upper platform.

Abstract: A coupling device includes a first support member which is connected to the arm of a robot and which supports a second support member for universal tilting and axial movement from an aligned normal position. The second support member supports robotic tooling, and a set of springs and ball members bias the support members to the normal position. An electrical control circuit is effective to stop movement of the robot arm in response to minute tilting or axial movement of the second support member in the event the tooling or article carried by the tooling is accidentally hit or overloaded.

Abstract: A fabric pickup device which separates single layers from a stack of fabric layers comprises a mounting plate (1) by which it may be secured to a table (2), an angled bracket (6) extending the full width of the device, and a pickup assembly (8). The pickup assembly (8) is supplied with compressed air to operate three double-acting pneumatic cylinders (20, 21, 22). Two pickup plates (29, 30) have on their lower surfaces needles (39, 40 respectively). Operation of the cylinders (20, 21) causes the plates to be pivoted between a standby position, a pickup position in which a fabric layer is picked up on the needles, and a release position by means of a cam plate (53). Operation of cylinder (22) causes the pickup assembly to be raised so that the fabric layer picked up may be separated from the needles (39, 40).