US PATENT SUBCLASS 414 / 227
APPARATUS PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR CHARGING OR DISCHARGING A FACILITY COMPRISING ONE OR MORE SITES FOR THE PARKING OF WHEELED VEHICLES

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227APPARATUS PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR CHARGING OR DISCHARGING A FACILITY COMPRISING ONE OR MORE SITES FOR THE PARKING OF WHEELED VEHICLES {7}
228  DF  .~> Facility includes structure (e.g., ramp, angularly related successive locations for a vehicle, etc.) necessitating self-propellability or steerability of vehicle {1}
231  DF  .~> With control system responsive to changeable operating instructions
232  DF  .~> With means to sense condition of site
233  DF  .~> Including one or more movable sites {2}
252  DF  .~> With vehicle storage or retrieval system responsive to manual designation of destination
253  DF  .~> With means to transfer, or facilitate transfer of, vehicle from carrier to site or vice versa {5}
261  DF  .~> Carrier-facility-site relationship {3}

DEFINITION

Classification: 414/227

APPARATUS PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR CHARGING OR DISCHARGING A FACILITY COMPRISING ONE OR MORE SITES FOR THE PARKING OF WHEELED VEHICLES:

(under the class definition) Apparatus comprising means for carrying, moving, placing, transporting, etc., one or more wheeled vehicles from, in, into, on, onto, off from, out of, within, etc., a facility where it may be allowed to remain for a period of time. The facility may comprise only a site for parking one vehicle, or it may involve a plurality of parking sites; in the latter case, in particular, it may include building structure (e.g., as in a parking garage). Any parking site, or any or all of a plurality of such sites, may be either (a) fixed in nature, or (b) of a kind which is occasionally or frequently subjected to being moved bodily (e.g., orbitally, laterally displaced, etc.).

(1) Note. "Site", as used hereinafter, shall be understood to mean parking site.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

52, Static Structure (e.g., Buildings),

174+, for a structure of that class which may include means peculiar to the direction or control of vehicular, surface traffic.

410, Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,

4+, for the accommodation of a vehicle on a vehicle-transporting carrier of that class. 296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,

101, for the accommodation of a vehicle on a vehicle-transporting carrier of that class.