Patent ID: 7997387

Claim:
A four post parking platform for motor vehicles, comprising two longitudinally directed platform tracks for receiving a vehicle, a front and rear transverse member which both are guided on their ends at posts in a vertically displaceable manner, flexible traction cords which are provided for engaging the front and rear transverse members for raising and lowering the platform tracks and can be wound and unwound on at least two spool bodies, a torsionally rigid shaft for connecting the at least two spool bodies to each other, and an electrical drive assembly as a rotary drive for the at least two spool bodies and the shaft, wherein the drive assembly is mounted to one of the front and rear transverse members that can be raised and lowered vertically, the shaft is aligned parallel to the platform tracks and rotatably mounted to the front and rear transverse members and an end of at least one of the flexible traction cords is fixed to an upper end of one of the posts.