Patent ID: 7467784

Claim:
In a garage with a ceiling, walls, an upper portion generally adjacent to such ceiling, device for lifting and lowering a cover from such upper portion of such garage, such cover having a forward panel, a rearward panel, generally parallel opposing spaced apart first and second side panels and a top panel, said top panel having a forward section, a midsection, and a rearward section, said midsection being generally rectangular and defined by four points generally corresponding to corners of said rectangle, said device comprising: a loop attached at each of said four points of said midsection; a first line attached to said cover at an intersection of said forward panel, said forward section of said top, and a first of said side panels, a second line attached to said cover at an intersection of said forward panel, said forward section of said top and a second of said side panels, a third line attached to said cover at an intersection of said rearward panel, said rearward section and said first of said side panels, a fourth line attached to said cover at an intersection of said rearward panel, said rearward section and said second of said side panels, a first, a second, a third, and a fourth pulley attached to said lower surface of such roof, said first line extending through a first of said loops and through said first pulley, said second line extending through a second of said loops and through said second pulley, said third line extending through a third of said loops and through said third pulley, and said fourth line extending through a fourth of said loops and through said fourth pulley.