Vehicle positioning apparatus

• US 3,391,651 A
• Filed: 03/19/1965
• Issued: 07/09/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene Runes, Hilbert J. Nebelsick, Irwin Ginsburgh, Richard A. Sholts
• Original Assignee: Eugene Runes, Hilbert J. Nebelsick, Irwin Ginsburgh, Richard A. Sholts
• Inventors: IRWIN GINSBURGH, EUGENE RUNES, Nebelsick, Hilbert J., Sholts, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US04/441,248
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• US Class Current: 104/242
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2007/0436 according to a spatial coordinate system
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/0401 arrangements for automatically fuelling vehicles, i.e. without human intervention
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/42 Devices or arrangements peculiar to garages, not covered elsewhere, e.g. securing devices, safety devices , monitoring and operating schemes; centering devices

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING A MULTI-WHEELED VEHICLE WITH RESPECT TO A REFERENCE LOCATION, WHICH APPARATUS COMPRISES:

AN ELONGATED TROUGH-LIKE LATERAL GUIDE MEANS LOCATED ADJACENT THE REFERENCE LOCATION IN A SURFACE OVER WHICH SAID VEHICLE IS DRIVEN AND ADAPTED TO ENGAGE WITH A WHEEL ON ONE SIDE OF SAID VEHICLE;

AN ELONGATED FRICTION REDUCING BEARING SURFACE SPACED FROM SAID GUIDE MEANS AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL THERETO TO ENGAGE WITH ANOTHER WHEEL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID VEHICLE AND CAUSING SAID VEHICLE TO MOVE LATERALLY IN RESPONSE TO FORCE EXERTED LATERALLY BY SAID GUIDE MEANS ON THE WHEEL ENGAGED THEREWITH;