US1809140A - Storage building - Google Patents

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June 9, 1931. c. .a. MITCHELL STORAGE BUILDING Original Filed Oct. 15. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR CHARLES Gonpou MrrcuELL B Wh /re;

. TIORNEYS FIG. 2

June 9, 1931.

c. e. MITCHELL 1,809,140

STORAGE BUILDING Original Filed Oct. 15. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I I I I I II I I I I I I X {F n I u I n I n I a I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I FIGLS I INVEN'IOR CHARLES GORDON MITCHELL Patented June 9, 1931 UNITED STATES CHARLES GORDON MITCHELL, or ONTREAL, QUEBEC, NADA; a

STORAGE BUILDING Application filed October 15,1928, Serial A further object is to provide a building or garage which will have means to facilitate the movement of the cars between the floors.

A still further object is to provide a build ing which may be quickly converted from a garage into a warehouse or vice versa with the minimum expense. i

According to my invention l provide a building having a plurality of main floors and mezzanine floors between the main floors. The main floors extend for the whole length 5 and width of the building except in thatportion of the mezzanine corridor contained within the traflic well which area includes the over-all'leng th and width of said corridor from out to out of walls enclosing ramps or inclined passageways which form the means 7 of communication between the floors. Ex-

ternal to the trafiic well the mezzanine corri-z dors are one-half storey height, but when the building is to beused for warehouse purposes only (or such part of it) the mezzanine corr dor maybe maintained at full height for its entire or such other length as required. Corridors are formed on the main floors, and the mezzanine floors extend between the main floors, and a corridorequalto the height between the mezzanine floors extends between the ramps so thatlarge vehicles can be, accomamodated between the mezzanine floors.

Inthe drawingswhich illustrate my invention V I i Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation of my improved storage building. a r V ,1 Figure 2 is a sectional plan showing one of the main floors and taken on the line-2 2,

Figure 1.

No. 312,671,; nd a Uanada August 31; 1928. a s he a 'n ri1'2a,1ee1.' h I 1 Figure 3 is a sectional plan viewof the V buildingshowin'g' oneof the'mezzaninefioors and taken on the line 3-3 Figurel. ::Beiierrhig 'more particularly to thedrawi ings', 1 1 'designatesthe front wall, 12 the rear,

and 13 and 14 the side walls) Spacedinter-' medlate 1 the walls are the floor supporting j columns 15,16, 17; 18, 19 and 20. 'Theimain .v

floorsiextend' from side tofside of the building and corridors l for traversing. the -floors*'ar e preferably betwee'nthe columns on supports 16' a-nd17 and between thecolumns 19 and 20;

Spacedl midway between the main floors are 7 thez mezzanine floor s 21 and these floors extend'b'etween the adj acentedges of the corridors oin' the m'ai'n -fioors Ramps or inclined passageway-s22 form=the means of communication between the main floors and the" mezzanine'fioors, and betweenz the mezzanine floors and the main floors; inclinedpass'ageare arranged preferably hetween the columns 15 and 1601- between the:columns=18Vand119.

wvays or ramps are placedl These ramps" (23 In the drawings only two sets-areshowniand they-are arranged between the columns 16; and 5 17.} Between the columns 12 and 18 andiexs tending -between" the "remote iedges of the rampsya space is formed in the main floors so thatlarge trucksmay travers'ethe building between the ramps on the 'mezzanine floors.

l he'iramps' are-spaced from the :endl of: the

building so that the trucks and pleasure 'cars may :{tra-vel around the: building 1 on the main 7 floor: without the necessity of using the ramps.

l t -will beseen that smallip'leasure'cars can be stored. at each side of the'corridors"on'the mezzanine? floors and heavy cars g anditru'cks' may be storedbetween the wallsand the cor-f. ridors adjacent thereto. It willalso be seen that trucks and heavy cars may traverse the 1 corridor on the mezzanine-floorbetween the ramps so that should necessity arise, the truck may be diverted from one set of ramps to another-set while onthevrnezzani'ne floor.

It will be seen also that by covering the space 24 on the main floor between the col- 3 umns 17 and 18, the building may be quickly and conveniently changed from a garage into a warehouse with a maximum amount of floor 'Jflfl or storage space; o v v v Any number of floors may be arranged and entrance and exit openings be made in the walls in the ground floor at any convenient place.

Having thus described my invention, what 7 I claim is 1. In a building, a plurality of main floors extending from end to end and from side to side of the building, a corridor encircling the building and spaced from the walls thereof, mezzanine floors intermediate the main floors, said mezzanine floors covering the area between the adjacent edges of the corridors, and

ramps at each end of the building connecting the main floors with the mezzanine floors, said main floors having means formedtherein between the ramps to allow for the passage of high vehicles between the ramps.

2. A building having a plurality of main floors extending from side to side and from' end to end of the building, mezzanine floors located intermediate the main floors and spaced from the sides and endsof the building to provide a full storage space on the main floors extending entirely around the area covered by the mezzanine floors and ramps connecting the main floors with the mezzanine floors, said main floors having portions thereof omitted to form slots aflording full story corridors traversing the mezzanine floors, said slots being formed only in the portions of the main floors located between the mezzanine floors.

3. A building having a plurality of main floors extending from side to side and from end to end of the building, mezzanine floors located intermediate said main floors and spaced from the side and end walls of the building, supporting posts extending between the main floors and arranged to 1 define a full story corridor on each main floor located close to and extending entirely around the marginal portions of the overlying mezzanine floor, said main floors having central portions thereof omitted to provide full story corridors traversing the mezzanine floors, and full story ramps connecting the corridors'of the main and mezzanine floors.

hand.

CHARLES GORDON MITCHELL.

In witness whereof, Ihavehereunto set my 7

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