Structure for servicing a plurality of motor vehicles simultaneously

• US 4,188,985 A
• Filed: 11/28/1977
• Issued: 02/19/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Evan J. Osterman
• Original Assignee: Evan J. Osterman
• Inventors: Osterman, Evan J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Jr., Houston S.
• Application Number:
  US05/855,398
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 137/356, 137/357, 137/358, 137/359, 137/360, 137/361, 137/362, 137/234.6, 52/169.1, 52/169.2, 52/169.5, 52/236.3, 52/236.4, 52/185, 52/175, 184/1.5, 141/98, 141/392, 141/231-233, D25/33, D25/34
• US Class Current: 141/98
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 5/06 Pits or building structures for inspection or services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3802 With vehicle guide or support, e.g., service station

Abstract

A multi-level building has a plurality of service bays each having upper and lower work floors both surrounded by walls. The upper work floor has a floor aperture with roller mounted horizontal gates to open and close the aperture. The gates are capable of supporting lift jacks and taking the weight of the motor vehicle. The upper work surface received the motor vehicle. A moveable door in one end wall of the bay precludes unauthorized removal of the motor vehicle. Tanks remote from the work surfaces are connected to fluid collectors operable from the lower work surface. Upper and lower access drives are connected by ramps for the entry and exit of vehicles and the delivery of supplies and removal of waste. Other doors and gates deny unauthorized access to the work surfaces. The bays may be arranged in side-by-side or tandem relationship with access ways between tandem bays such that a vehicle may move from one bay to another or be removed from the structure without passing through the second bay.

Claims

1. In a motor vehicle service structure having a plurality of service bays defined by end and side walls the combination comprising for each bay a front entry, a rear entry, a rear entry closure;

a first support floor, an access well in the first support floor, horizontally movable closure gates for the access well;

a second support floor vertically spaced from the first support floor, personnel access means between floors, supply access means between floors, means selectively precluding personnel access to said second support floor, and access drives for vehicles to and from said plurality of service bays.

2. A service structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said service bays are adjacent and parallel.

3. A service structure in accordance with claim 2 further comprising a second plurality of service bays arranged in tandem with said first plurality of service bays, and access drives between said first and second pluralities of service bays.

4. A service structure in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a work surface raised above said second support floor beneath each of said access wells.

5. A service structure in accordance with claim 4 further comprising fluid collector means operable from said raised work surface.

6. A service structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein each of said access gates comprise parallel guide rails beneath and bordering said access well, a plurality of rollers on said rails, beam means extending between rollers from rail to rail, supports on said beam means, and a plate secured to said supports movable with said rollers.