Self service multistoried rotatable airplane hangar and operating means therefor

Claim 1

In a self-service multistoried hanger confined within a building having a plurality of circular storage platforms supported therein for independent turning movement in vertically spaced concentric relation adjacent an elevator lift platform; locking means for such building and means for receiving and discharging airplanes to and from selected segmental storage sectors of a selected one of said storage platforms comprising: a. an electrical drive motor drivingly connected to each of said storage platforms; b. an electrical circuit connected to one side of each of said electrical drive motors; c. a coded card indexer connected to the other side of each of said electrical drive motors for controlling the latter to turn a preselected one of said storage platforms and move a selected storage sector thereof into a position for contiguous relation with the elevator platform. d. a commutator having a storage space band in said electrical circuit between said indexer and each of said drive motors and provided with a gap coded to a particular storage sector for each of said storage platforms; e. means on said commutator operatively associated with said indexer and the drive motor of a preselected one of said storage platforms for advancing said commutator in timed relation with the turning of said preselected storage platform and for breaking said electrical circuit at said gap upon arrival of the particular selected storage sector into a position for contiguous relation to said elevator platform; f. a door opening the front wall of such building at ground level adjacent that edge of said elevator platform opposite the storage platforms; g. a door mounted on the front wall of such building for closing the door opening therein; h. a lock on said door for locking the same relative to the opening in said front wall, said lock including a normally open master switch in the main circuit between the source of electrical current and the electrical circuit to said indexer and the drive motors controlled thereby; and i. key means assigned to each tenant to such hangar for unlocking said lock and closing said master switch.