Multi-storey parking garage

• US 6,672,019 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2002
• Issued: 01/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: PAG Parkhaus AG, Vollack Parkhaus AG
• Original Assignee: Vollack Parkhaus AG
• Inventors: Wenz, Jürgen Otto
• Primary Examiner(s): BAXTER, GWENDOLYN WRENN
• Application Number:
  US10/175,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233795A1
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 521/74, 521/75, 525/731, 523/021, 523/023
• US Class Current: 52/174
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 19/086 Drainage arrangements or devices surface drainage of roads in general E01C11/224; roof drainage E04D13/04
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/10 without mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles, e.g. with helically-arranged fixed ramps, with movable ramps

Abstract

A multi-storey parking garage which can be reassembled comprises a skeleton support structure with vertical supports, substantially horizontal ceiling beams and a plurality of floor plates which are supported on the ceiling beams for forming a passable surface, wherein a gap formed between neighboring floor plates extends above a ceiling beam in the longitudinal direction thereof. The floor plates are disposed on the ceiling beams with the interposition of a groove-shaped profiled body, in particular of an elastic plastic material. The profiled body extends in the longitudinal direction of the gap below same and serves for accepting and draining liquid dropping onto the floor plates.

Claims

1. A multi-storey parking garage, the parking garage comprising:

substantially vertical supports;

substantially horizontal ceiling beams seated on said vertical supports to define a skeletal support structure;

a plurality of groove-shaped, profiled bodies, each of said profiled bodies seating on an associated one of said ceiling beams and extending substantially along a longitudinal travel of said associated ceiling beam; and

a plurality of floor plates supported on said profiled bodies for forming a passable surface, said floor plates defining gaps between neighboring floor plates, said gaps disposed directly above an associated one of said profiled bodies and extending along said longitudinal travel of an associated supporting one of said ceiling beams.

2. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, wherein each of said ceiling beams has an I-shaped cross-section, each of said profiled bodies being supported at a lower side thereof to seat on an upper flange of said associated ceiling beam.

3. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, wherein each of said profiled bodies consists essentially of an elastic plastic material.

4. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, wherein each of said profiled bodies has a U-shaped cross-section, wherein each of said gaps is disposed above a central portion of said U-shaped cross-section.

5. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 4, wherein an edge region of each of said floor plates seats on an, upper side of a leg of one of said profiled bodies.

6. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of tensioning devices, each of said tensioning devices cooperating with one of said floor plates and an associated one of said ceiling beams to tension said one of said floor plates to an associated one of said profiled bodies.

7. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, wherein each of said ceiling beams and each of said profiled bodies is inclined in said longitudinal direction.

8. The multi-storey parking garage of claim 1, wherein each of said gaps has a width of between 15 mm and 30 mm.