Reliable Hydraulic Parking Systems From Wohr

By Author: Sandeep Kulkarni
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In India's congested urban centres, space for parking cars is a real problem. No wonder multilevel car parking systems are growing in usage and popularity. Multilevel car parking systems and automatic car parking systems offer real solutions that create numbers of parking spaces in a small footprint. They also help to eliminate the time, stress and fuel involved in searching for suitable parking space.

Multilevel car parking systems generally use hydraulic lifts to move vehicles up and down, and even sideways. The hydraulic lift elevates the vehicle on the platform in order to make room for a second car to park underneath. It also safely lowers the platform once the second car moves out.

Components and working of a hydraulic system

Generally, hydraulic car lifts have three main components:
- Tank for oil or some other fluid
- one or more pistons in a cylinder
- Motor-powered pump

In a streamlined design, these components are usually built into the car parking system, on either or both sides of the platformas well as the vertical arms that hold it in place.

Hydraulic systems ...
... make use of fluid pressure to move parts. The initial movement of the pump is activated with electricity. The pump pushes the fluid out of the storage container into the cylinder that houses the piston/s. As pressure builds up in the fluid, it pushes the piston upward. This generates enough force to life heavy loads and to hold them there until the fluid is withdrawn by the pump. As the cylinders and pistons are attached to the car lift's platform, they activate the controlled raising and lowering of the platform.

Hydraulic systems are reliable, compact and can be streamlined in the design. Being simpler in design with fewer parts, there are fewer places where it may break down.

Stacker parking systems and puzzle car parking systems are some of the common systems that utilise hydraulic lifts.

Stacker systems usually have 2 to 3 levels for car parking. The car parked on the bottom platform is lifted to the level aboveusing hydraulics.

Puzzle parking systems are multilevel car parking systems, ideal for both indoor and outdoor installation. Here, the pallet moves both vertically (up and down), as well as horizontally (left and right) to place the vehicle in the vacant parking space.

The pallet is the flat, movable structure on which the car is placed and transported among multiple floors. The same steps are reversed to take the vehicle back from the parking space. It takesbarely1-2 minutes for car parking or retrieving the car in such a system.

WOHR’S STACKER PARKING SYSTEMS

Wohr's stack parking systems are ideal for both indoor and outdoor installation. They offer a high level of operating and functional safety as per EN norms.Easy operation and low maintenance costs are natural features of all Wohr car parking solutions.

Wohr offers four models of stack parking systems:

Parklift 411

This is a dependent parking system with 2 levels, available as a single unit for 2 cars or double unit for 4 cars.

Parklift 413

Independent parking for 3 cars in the footprint of one parking space. A cost saving solution for car heights 150 cm to 170 cm.

Parklift 421

A dependent system with 3 parking levels, ideal for valet parking, car rentals, car service centres.

Parklift 440

For indoor installation with pit, this independent parking system accommodates 2 cars above each other.

WOHR’S PUZZLE CAR PARKING SYSTEM

Wohr's puzzle parking series, ‘Combilift’, is based on the concept of stacking and moving together. This arrangement is extremely comfortable for the user as anyone can enter and exit at any time. If anything is in the way, it is simply shifted to the side, or lifted.
Besides easy operation, parking comfort and functional safety, these puzzle parking systems can also be fitted with safety gates for greater safety against theft and vandalism.

The Combilift series includes:

Combilift 551

Independent parking in 2 levels above each other without pit. Entrance level platforms move laterally and upper level platforms move vertically, with always one platform less at the entrance level.

Combilift 552

The Combilift 552 can be arranged in 2 rows behind each other. A smart combination is to put in Combilift 551 / Combilift 543 system behind Combilift 552. Empty space in the first row will be positioned in such a way that it is possible to drive through to reach the selected space, located in the rear row.

Combilift 543

The most compact space saving Combilift for parking on 3 levels above each other. The entry is always at the middle level. The user selects his place via operating panel.

Combilift 542

Independent parking in 2 levels with a pit, suitable for areas where headroom is restricted. Available in variable arrangementsof 2-10 grids beside each other.

CONCLUSION
When it comes to automated car parking systems, Wohr is the go-to expert. Wohr offers a wide range of advanced automatic car parking systems and hydraulic systems to suit diverse space and budget criteria. Wohr can even customise car parking solutions, for specific requirements.

The many lakhs of parking spaces installed by Wohr across India and around the world bear testimony to Wohr’s superior German design and engineering. Solve your parking problems with a Wohrcar parking system. Contact today.

Wohr is one of the leading manufacturers of car parking systems worldwide. For more than 55 years now, since the number of cars on the roads began to increase, Wohr has been designing and installing parking systems. And because we specialize in just parking systems, Wohr today is the company with the Most Extensive Product Range worldwide. With more than 600000 parking places installed, 70000 of these alone in Asia, the reliability and safety of Wohr systems speaks for itself. Innovations brought to market by Wohr such as the Combilift, Puzzle Parking, Park safe and Level parker systems, are an emblem of creativity and German engineering knowhow.