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OVERHEAD VEHICLE STORAGE SYSTEM

  • US 20080075566A1
  • Filed: 05/02/2007
  • Published: 03/27/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An overhead vehicle storage system for selectively elevating vehicles from a roadway, storing the vehicles within a storage facility and retrieving the vehicles from the storage facility, the storage system comprising a storage structure including a first section for storing the vehicles and a second section extending over the roadway, an overhead track system including first pairs of spaced and parallel tracks that extend within said first section of said storage structure and at least one second pair of spaced and parallel tracks that extends over the roadway, at least one powered transfer unit mounted to said overhead track system so as to be movable transversely in an X-Y plane above said first section of said storage structure and along at least one of an X or Y direction over said second section of said storage structure, a plurality of vehicle storage units each defining a frame supporting at least one vehicle supporting means, said at least one transfer unit including hoist means for selectively engaging said vehicle storage units, each of said frames being constructed to permit a vehicle to be loaded onto or from said at least one vehicle supporting means when one of said vehicle storage units is lowered onto the roadway by said hoist means, and said vehicle storage units being vertically stackable one above another within said first section of said storage structure, whereby said at least one transfer unit can be maneuvered along said overhead track system so as to lower one of said vehicle storage units onto the roadway to retrieve a vehicle from the roadway and elevate the retrieved vehicle from the roadway and thereafter convey the elevated vehicle to said first section of said storage structure wherein the vehicle and the vehicle storage unit are lowered into a stored position and wherein said vehicle storage units can be selectively maneuvered within said first section of said storage structure to obtain access to said vehicle storage units and wherein retrieving vehicles stored is said storage structure is accomplished by elevating a selected vehicle storage unit from a stored position and thereafter conveying the selected vehicle storage unit from said first section to said second section of said storage structure and subsequently lowering the selected vehicle storage unit into the roadway such that a vehicle carried thereby can be removed from the selected vehicle storage unit.

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