Chart Industries, Inc.

Gerald P Horan

John T Wickmann

Philip M Carlton

Richard C Olak

Stanislaus McNamee

A multiple vehicle position cantilevered lift comprising a stiff support for a cantilevered lift, said support being sized so as to be resistant to twist and torque loads, said support having a base plate with openings for selective alignment with openings provided in a concrete floor or footing, the openings in said floor having disposed therein an anchoring member comprising a compressible sleeve having a predetermined diameter and a threaded piston, having a predetermined diameter slightly larger than the cylinder and being contained in said sleeve and having a threaded internal or interior wall for receiving an anchor bolt and having a substantially tapered outer wall wherein as the bolt is fastened to a predetermined torque, the piston rises in the sleeve and expands the sleeve compressing the sleeve outwardly against the concrete surrounding the opening to anchor the sleeve and the bolt in the base plate, said support including framework to movably engage and support at least one cantilevered vehicle lift moveable between a first lowered position and a second raised position respectively for at least one vehicle, said lift having a drive provided for each cantilevered lift position, wherein a vehicle may be lifted at each lift position without interfering with the adjacent lift position.

Multi vehicle position cantilevered lift

The present pump design with the elimination of a separate hydraulic fluid path from the cylinder dramatically improves the efficiency and pressure achieved by the pump by 15% as a result of reducing the number of chambers provided in the pump interior. It is, however, imperative for reasons not completely understood that in order for these efficiencies to be obtained that a reservoir of oil be located adjacent the main oil intake volume to ensure quick filling of the main oil intake volume as the piston cycles to its pressure stroke. This prevents cavitation of the pump.

High-pressure hydraulic pump with improved performance

An apparatus for reshaping metal panels or the like of motor vehicles or automobiles, the apparatus comprising;

Apparatus for a reshaping metal panels of automobiles or motor vehicles

A clamping system for use in supporting automotive vehicles in secured relation above a floor surface includes an adjustable height pedestal having a base member with a ram member entered in sliding relation therein. Laterally inclined convergent internal side walls serve as guides to keep in mutually centered relation a pair of vertically extending mating faces of the base member and the ram member. These mating faces have laterally extending tooth members standing proud of their surfaces in mutually interengageable relation to lock the members together against vertical displacement. Clearance within the base member sufficient for the lateral disengagement of the respective tooth members permits vertical adjustment of the ram member relative to the base. Jacking screws extending laterally within the base serve to hold the ram member in tooth engaged relation with the mating face of the base, in a locked, pre-set position of a predetermined height. One or more clamps of the scott clamp type are used for securing the vehicle by its underside. In the case of a single clamp it is secured directly to the ram. Alternatively, a pair of scott clamps can be mounted in offset mutual force-balancing relation on a balance beam. The balance beam in one embodiment is pivotally attached at its center, to the ram. The pivotal attachment connection can be locked by way of a tapered joint. In a further embodiment the beam is rigidly secured to the ram.

Adjustable height clamping stand

A rack for use with automotive bodies, has a substantially rigid frame of welded steel sections to receive an automotive body in secured relation on the rack in supported space relation above a floor surface. The rack has a series of depending flanged shear members extending beneath it, onto which a tiltable thrust plate, that forms a nose portion of an elongated trolley, can be attached. The trolley nose portion is pushed against a flange, to mount it, and bear against the respective rack shear member. The trolley forms part of a loading system, the trolley having a detachable upstanding tower portion from which a racking chain or chains can be secured to the automotive body, the tower including jacking provisions by which deforming tension forces can be applied by way of the chain between the tower and the body. The trolley has a spring-loaded rear wheel suspension, which permits it to accommodate to irregular floor surfaces. The trolley is substantially self stabilizing in jamming relation against the underside of the rack.

Vehicle repair rack system

A multi-purpose work unit comprising a platform having; a top side, and bottom side, carrying on the platform top an anti-slip surface, and a padding on the bottom side; a plurality of support members of alternative cross-section having a top section extending from the bottom side of the platform at its extremities parallel to the platform and abutting the interior surfaces of the platform and fastened thereto, said support members continuing from the platform extremities in a downward angle away from the platform and arcing at the extremities of the support remote the platform defining a support member bottom, continuing therefrom in complimentary circumscription returning to its origin at the underside of the platform; wherein a number of relationships exist amongst the dimensions of the work unit described.

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Pickering, Canada

Gerald P Horan