Patent ID: 7055802

Claim:
An appliance lift tool comprising: a top plate having a horizontal orientation, a bottom plate having two front corners and two rear corners, a spaced pair of first and second pivot arms, said first pivot arms being pivotally connected at a lower end near said rear corners of said bottom plate and being slidingly captured at a top end by said top plate, said second pivot arms being pivotally connected at an upper end near a rear edge of said top plate and being slidingly captured at a lower end by said bottom plate, each pair of said first and second pivot arms being pivotally connected to each other approximately midway along their lengths, a cross member connecting said lower ends of said second pivot arms, a threaded opening located in a surrounding material fixed relative to said cross member, a drive screw threadingly extending in a front to rear direction through said threaded opening and being captured relative to said rear edge of said bottom plate in a rotatable, but axially fixed manner, a front and rear strut extending laterally across and below said bottom plate, and a laterally adjustable foot extending through each of said struts near both lateral ends of each of said struts.