US PATENT SUBCLASS 414 / 242
.~.~ On driven, plural-site carrier initially receiving vehicle

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414 /   HD   MATERIAL OR ARTICLE HANDLING

227  DF  APPARATUS PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR CHARGING OR DISCHARGING A FACILITY COMPRISING ONE OR MORE SITES FOR THE PARKING OF WHEELED VEHICLES {7}
233  DF  .~ Including one or more movable sites {2}
242.~.~ On driven, plural-site carrier initially receiving vehicle {3}
243  DF  .~.~.~> With loading means, external to carrier, at facility entrance
244  DF  .~.~.~> Serving also movable site on subsequent driven carrier, or fixed site {2}
249  DF  .~.~.~> Moving linearly in vertical direction or orbiting in vertical plane {2}

DEFINITION

Classification: 414/242

On driven, plural-site carrier initially receiving vehicle:

(under subclass 233) Apparatus wherein a movable site comprises any vehicle accommodating space on a driven carrier which is in excess of the space required for the carrier to transport a single vehicle, and wherein the carrier is the one to which the vehicle moves, or is moved, upon arriving at the facility.

(1) Note. Vehicle accommodating platforms attached to an endless drive member, or mounted on a rotatable wheel, obviously constitute movable parking site. Less clear, however, is the case of, for instance, a two-, three-, four-car, vertically and/or horizontally driven, carrier; while such a carrier frequently is intended to transport only one vehicle at a time, and often does only that, the fact that it is common practice in the parking facility industry to utilize, when operating at or near the capacity of the facility, all available vehicle-accommodating space therefore necessitates treating any space in excess of that required for one vehicle as a movable site, since a corresponding number of vehicles may be left thereon for as long a period as desired.