Patent ID: 6974124

Claim:
A vehicle jack having a support leg ( 1 ), a foot ( 3 ) rotatably engaged on a pivot ( 6 ) on an end of the support leg ( 1 ) and a first end of a vehicle support arm ( 2 ) rotatably engaged on the support leg ( 1 ) above the foot ( 3 ) so that a threaded screw spindle ( 10 ) engaged to both the support leg ( 1 ) and the vehicle support arm ( 2 ) can be rotated by a handle ( 19 ) to turn the vehicle support arm ( 2 ) relative to the support leg ( 1 ) and raise a vehicle support ( 4 ) engaged on a second end of the vehicle support arm ( 2 ), wherein an auxiliary support ( 23 ) acts against the foot ( 3 ) during the raising of the vehicle support both when unloaded and when unloaded; wherein the auxiliary support ( 23 ) has a first section engaged to the first end of the vehicle support arm ( 2 ) and a second section engaged to the foot ( 3 ), the second section having an elbow-shaped projection ( 5 ) at a free end thereof; wherein the support leg ( 1 ) has a tongue ( 7 ) with a first hole ( 8 ) through which the first section of the auxiliary support ( 23 ) passes to permit the second section to engage the foot ( 3 ); wherein the foot ( 3 ) has a leg ( 12 ) between the pivot ( 6 ) and the tongue ( 7 ) projecting up from a bottom of the foot ( 3 ) into a recess ( 21 ) in a lower end of the support leg ( 1 ) in which the free end of the second section of the auxiliary support ( 23 ) engages the leg ( 12 ).