US 12,460,438 B2
Parking device more particularly for bicycles
Frido Stutz, Lufingen (CH); and Daniel Turler, Boll (CH)
Assigned to V-LOCKER AG, Dübendorf (CH)
Appl. No. 18/041,877
Filed by V-Locker AG, Dubendorf (CH)
PCT Filed Aug. 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/071931
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 16, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/037965, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 1026/20 (CH), filed on Aug. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0313552 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. E04H 6/00 (2006.01); E04H 6/14 (2006.01)
CPC E04H 6/005 (2013.01) [E04H 6/14 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A parking device, useful for bicycles, with a housing structure (3) with at least one entry opening (25) and a paternoster (1) arranged therein with a plurality of boxes (2) for receiving the bicycles, and with a controllable conveying means (13), by which the boxes (2) can be displaced in a revolution in the housing structure (3), wherein the housing structure (3) is formed as an independent structural unit depending on the desired number of boxes (2), wherein the boxes (2) are dimensioned such that bicycles can be moved through the entry opening (25) from the outside into the boxes (2) or moved out of same, and wherein the boxes each have a cross-section which is approximately V-shaped on the underside, with a lower narrow side and at the top, have a gabled roof structure with roof areas pointing slopingly inwards and wherein the inside of the boxes is provided, on the respective low narrow side, with ramps, brushes, or wheel clamps, for locking or fixing a bicycle pushed therein.