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A storage facility for units, such as boats, consists of a multi-story rotatable tower having radial storage region opening to exterior of the tower, and an elevator tower fixed adjacent the exterior of the tower. The elevator tower includes a lift car having fingers movable beneath a unit to be lif

A storage facility for units, such as boats, consists of a multi-story rotatable tower having radial storage region opening to exterior of the tower, and an elevator tower fixed adjacent the exterior of the tower. The elevator tower includes a lift car having fingers movable beneath a unit to be lifted and also movable substantially radially from a retracted position to an extended position enabling units to be inverted into or removed from the storage regions and lowered to or raised from a loading/unloading station at the base of the lift tower.

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A storage facility for individually movable units comprising a cylindrical storage tower formed as a rotatable structure having a spaced series of superposed annular stories each sub-divided into circumferentially spaced, substantially radial storage regions of sizes to receive said units, each regi

A storage facility for individually movable units comprising a cylindrical storage tower formed as a rotatable structure having a spaced series of superposed annular stories each sub-divided into circumferentially spaced, substantially radial storage regions of sizes to receive said units, each region having an outer end opening to the exterior of said storage tower, and elevator means including a lift tower fixed in close spaced adjacency to the exterior of said storage tower, and a lift car movable vertically on said lift tower between a loading/unloading station at the bottom of said lift tower and any level corresponding to a selected story of said storage tower, said lift car including a pair of laterally spaced movable fingers substantially radially arranged with respect to the vertical axis of said cylindrical storage tower, means carried by said lift car for moving said fingers between a retracted position wherein said fingers are clear of said storage tower and an extended position wherein said fingers project from said lift car into a selected storage region to deposit or pickup a unit therein, and power means for rotating said storage tower to a position wherein the open end of said selected storage region is in radial alignment with said lift tower.