SELF SERVICE, COMPUTER OPERATED, MECHANICAL-ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT FOR PARKING VEHICLES CLOSELY IN SIDE BY SIDE ROWS

摘要

The equipment comprises: a track, fixed to a base, extending endlessly so as to define two longitudinal runways; a plurality of movable elements of support, equidistant one with respect to the other, sliding on the track; a plurality of platforms on which to receive an identical plurality of vehicles, each platform resting fixedly on one of the movable elements of support; a power unit for driving synchronously, in opposite directions, the movable elements, with it being possible for each platform to transit at a station for loading and unloading vehicles onto and from the platform; a movable bar for barring access to the station; and a programmed unit, set in action through a card, for operating the power unit and the bar, as well as destined to operated a corresponding signal unit in consequence of the existence of at least one free platform.