Patent ID: 7621605

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a cabinet providing opposing side walls; rotatable axles supported by the side walls; arms extending between the axles and a basket; the axles rotatable to move the arms and basket between a lowered position within the cabinet, and a raised position forward of the cabinet; a drive system having a motor rotationally engaged with a pair of drive pulleys positioned adjacent the side walls; the drive pulleys engaged with a pair of follower pulleys each secured to, and rotational with one of the axles; a pair of drive cables engaged between each one of the drive and follower pulleys in an arrangement wherein one of the drive cables of each said pair of the drive cables on each side of the cabinet is interconnected so as to move one of the arms and the basket from the lowered position to the raised position, the drive pulleys rotating the follower pulleys in a first rotational sense, and the other of the cables of each said pair of the cables on each side of the cabinet is interconnected so as to move the basket from the raised position to the lowered position, the drive pulleys rotating the follower pulleys in a second rotational sense.