August Bilstein Gmbh & Co Kg

Wolfgang Metzen

Peter Brosius

Willi Erschens

A jack with a foot resting on the ground and with a supporting plate that rises away from the foot, lifts the vehicle, and pivots around one or more articulations on a supporting component around an axis paralleling the length of the vehicle. The object is to make it possible to compensate for tilting along the vehicle without causing unilateral stress that could damage the bottom of the vehicle with local pressure. The jack accordingly has at least one support (17) on or between the articulations (15 and 16) and between the supporting plate (8) and the supporting component (3), and the articulations allow a limited pitch paralleling the length of the vehicle on the part of the plate.

Vehicle jack

An automotive jack in which an upright member is provided with a pivotable base plate hinged on a first pivot at the bottom of the upright member. This upright member has a second pivot on which a supporting arm is turnable. The supporting arm is pivoted by an actuating device. A spring pivots the base plate along the length of the upright member, and the supporting arm has, at one end, a load interception head for pivoting the base plate through a stop against the force of the spring into a position at an angle to the length of the upright member when the jack is folded together. The sole of the base plate has an entire surface butting against the ground for any extensions and loads of the jack due to the pivoting of the base plate about the first pivot.

Car lift

A jack in which a base plate is pivotable on an upright to a bottom surface. A supporting arm is also pivotable on the upright, and is actuated for being pivoted. The base plate is held in a predetermined position by a spring which has two sections. A first section of the spring rests against the upright and the base plate, whereas the second section of the spring rests against the base plate and an end of the supporting arm when this arm is completely folded up against the upright. The second section of the spring, furthermore, generates a spring torque which is directed opposite to the spring torque that is generated by the first spring section. The spring torque of the second spring section, moreover, exceeds the spring torque of the first spring section.

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Wolfgang Metzen