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Vendors' structural complex

  • US 5,158,155 A
  • Filed: 10/11/1990
  • Issued: 10/27/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A structural complex arranged to provide products and services to consumers in an efficient and cost effective manner, the complex comprising:

  • warehouse means providing facilities for storing and preparing goods and preforming services;

    order stations means separate and remote from the warehouse means and communicating with the warehouse means, the order station means being accessible to consumers to enable consumers to communicate with the warehouse means to order goods, services or both from the warehouse means;

    pick up station means separate and remote from the warehouse means and separate and remote from the order station means, the pick up station means communicating with the warehouse means, the pick up station means being accessible to consumers to enable consumers to receive at the pick up station means goods, services, or both ordered from the warehouse means at the order station means;

    the warehouse means being elevated relative to the order station means and the pick up station means, with the order station means and pick up station means being positioned below the warehouse means;

    a vehicle route passing through the structural complex beneath the warehouse means and passing adjacent the order station means and then passing adjacent the pick up station means, the vehicle route enabling consumers in vehicles to access the order station means and the pick up station means from the vehicle route; and

    ,the warehouse means having first and second doors supported over the vehicle route, the first and second doors being opened to provide access to the order station means and the pick up station means from the vehicle route and the first and second doors being closed to completely enclose the order station means and the pick up station means beneath the warehouse means.

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