Self service, computer operated, mechanical-electronic equipment for parking vehicles closely in side by side rows

摘要

The equipment comprises: a track 3, fixed to a base 2, extending endlessly so as to define two longitudinal runways; a plurality of movable elements of support 4, equidistant one with respect to the other, sliding on the track 3; a plurality of platforms 5 on which to receive an identical plurality of vehicles 6, each platform resting fixedly on one of the said movable elements of support 4; means 8 for driving synchronously, in both the directions Hl and H2, the said movable elements 4, with it being possible for each platform to transit at a station S for loading and unloading vehicles onto and from the platform; movable means 14 for barring access to the station; and a programmed unit 20, set in action through a card 22, for operating the said drive means and the said movable access barring means, as well as destined to operate corresponding signalling means 32 in consequence of the existence of at least one free platform.