Patent ID: 6341763
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: B66F

Abstract:
A lever-action vehicle lift for lifting a lift contacting section part of a vehicle from an initial distance relative to a ground surface to a raised distance from said ground surface, said vehicle including at least one wheel, said lever-action lift comprising:a lever frame, said lever frame defining a vehicle contacting means for contacting said lift contacting section; a fulcrum means for rotatably supporting said lever frame when the latter is pivoted about said ground surface between an initial configuration wherein said vehicle contacting means is spaced from said lift contacting section and a raising configuration wherein said vehicle contacting means supports said lift contacting section at said raised distance from said ground surface; a spacing means solidly attached between said vehicle contacting means and said fulcrum means for maintaining said vehicle contacting means and said fulcrum means in a first predetermined spaced relationship relative to each other, said vehicle contacting means and said fulcrum means being positioned in a common geometrical plane; a lever handle having a generally elongated configuration defining a handle first longitudinal end and an opposed handle second longitudinal end, said lever handle also defining a handle ground contacting section; said lever handle being pivotally attached to said lever frame by a handle pivotal connection so as to allow said lever handle to pivot about a lever pivoting axis, said lever pivoting axis extending in said common geometrical plane; said lever frame and said lever handle being configured and sized such that when said lever frame is in said raising configuration with both said handle ground contacting section and said fulcrum means contacting said ground surface, said common geometrical plane forms an acute angle relative to said ground surface such that said vehicle contacting means is located intermediate and above both said fulcrum means and said handle ground contacting section at said raised distance from said ground surface.