Patent ID: 8262335
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: B66F

Abstract:
1. A lifting platform for vehicles, the lifting platform being installed in a pit ( 1 ) and comprising at least two lifting devices ( 2 , 3 ), at least one of the lifting devices being movable in a longitudinal direction of the pit for adapting to axle spacing of a vehicle to be lifted, at least one of the lifting devices having two laterally projecting wheel forks ( 20 a , 20 b ) for holding wheels of one vehicle axle, and an axle lifter ( 24 ) combined with at least one of the lifting devices having the laterally projecting wheel forks ( 20 a , 20 b ), the axle lifter being allocated to the axle of the wheels held in the wheel forks ( 20 a , 20 b ) and the axle lifter being vertically movable independently of the wheel forks, wherein at least one of the wheel forks includes a wheel support ( 31 a , 32 a , 31 b , 32 b ) displaceable in a direction approximately parallel to the axle of the wheels, wherein the lifting devices ( 2 , 3 ) are connected to a synchronizing controller, the controller being configured such that, for a raised vehicle, the controller permits lowering of only the wheel forks ( 20 a , 20 b ) of one axle while simultaneously locking the axle lifter ( 24 ) corresponding to the one axle and locking the wheel forks ( 20 a , 20 b ) corresponding to another axle.