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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2004
Richard R. Blake, Sawyer, MI (US);
Jeffrey T. Russell, Stevensville, MI (US);
Charles L. Jones, Stevensville, MI (US);
Paul J. Gray, South Bend, IN (US);
Jeffrey W. Fjelstul, Coloma, MI (US);
Steven P. Hinrichs, Stevensville, MI (US);
Richard T. Lundy, Niles, MI (US);
Henry H. Wu, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Richard R. Blake, Sawyer, MI (US);
Jeffrey T. Russell, Stevensville, MI (US);
Charles L. Jones, Stevensville, MI (US);
Paul J. Gray, South Bend, IN (US);
Jeffrey W. Fjelstul, Coloma, MI (US);
Steven P. Hinrichs, Stevensville, MI (US);
Richard T. Lundy, Niles, MI (US);
Henry H. Wu, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A mobile appliance lift tool is provided which includes a cart having a frame and a pair of legs. Each leg has a sleeve pivotally attaching the leg to an end of the frame. Each sleeve is adapted to travel up and down the leg to selectively move the frame between a substantially horizontal configuration and a substantially inclined configuration. The tool includes a strut, a support platform having a horizontal orientation, a bottom frame, and a lift mechanism engaged between the support platform and the bottom frame to move the support platform toward and away from the bottom frame, while maintaining the support platform's horizontal orientation. The strut is mounted to the bottom frame and pivotally attached to the end of the cart's frame so that the strut is disposed in a horizontal orientation when the frame is moved to either the horizontal or the inclined configuration.