MECHANIC'S OVER-THE-ENGINE ACCESSIBILITY CARRIER

• US 3,698,330 A
• Filed: 03/30/1971
• Issued: 10/17/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas C. Krombach
• Original Assignee: Thomas C. Krombach
• Inventors: Krombach, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Bobby R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Finch, Glenn O.
• Application Number:
  US05/129,405
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 108/50,40,44,47,129 280/150,153,289
• US Class Current: 108/44
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 37/00 Tables adapted for other particular purposes glass cutting tables C03B33/03
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 5/00 Tool, instrument or work supports or storage means used in association with vehicles; Workers' supports, e.g. mechanics' creepers collecting or removing exhaust gases in workshops B08B15/002; vehicle lifting devices, e.g. jacks, platforms or ramps B66F

Abstract

A mechanic'"'"''"'"'s over-the-engine accessibility carrier is adapted to be located over the engine compartment of a vehicle and to be supported on the adjoining fender portions thereof and is composed of a body supporting assembly adapted to be located over the engine and including an upper and elongated rigid platform provided with a head rest and a tool tray and a lower elongated supporting frame provided with longitudinal bearing shafts and lateral flanges, and four elongated telescopic leg assemblies adapted to extend laterally outwardly and downwardly from opposite sides of the body supporting assembly adjacent opposite ends thereof, with each leg assembly including a transverse sleeve at its inner end pivotally mounted on and adjustable longitudinally of the corresponding bearing shaft, a spring biased lever and detent device intermediate its ends for longitudinal adjustment thereof, an adjustable depending foot pad at its outer end and adapted to rest upon the underlying fender portion and a longitudinally adjustable stop including a wedge engageable between the underside of the corresponding lateral flange and the upperside of the inner end of the corresponding leg assembly for varying and limiting its outward pivotal movement about and longitudinal adjustment along the corresponding bearing shaft.

Claims

1. A mechanic'"'"''"'"'s over-the-engine accessibility carrier arrangeable over the engine compartment of a vehicle and supportable on the adjoining fender portions thereof, wherein the improvement comprises a body supporting assembly locatable over the engine of the vehicle, and a plurality of elongated leg assemblies supportable extendible laterally outwardly and downwardly from opposite sides of said body supporting assembly, with each of said leg assemblies being pivotally connected at its inner end to the underside of said body supporting assembly supportable at its outer end by the underlying fender portion of the vehicle and provided with adjustable stop means engageable between the underside of said body supporting assembly and the upper side of said inner end of said leg assembly for varying and limiting the outward pivotal movement of said leg assembly.

2. The carrier of claim 1 wherein said body supporting assembly includes an upper elongated rigid body supporting platform, and a lower elongated frame supporting said platform and including bearing means pivotally mounting said inner ends of said leg assemblies and lateral flange means above said bearing means and having undersides engageable by said stop means.

3. The carrier of claim 1 wherein each of said leg assemblies is longitudinally adjustable, has the upper side of its inner end engageable by said stop means and provided with transverse sleeve means pivotally mounted on the underside of said body supporting assembly and its outer end provided with adjustable foot means adapted to rest upon the underlying fender portion of the vehicle.

4. The carrier of claim 3 wherein said body supporting assembly includes an upper elongated rigid body supporting platform, and a lower elongated frame supporting said platform and including bearing means pivotally mounting said sleeve means and lateral flange means above said bearing means and having undersides engageable by said stop means.

5. The carrier of claim 4 wherein said platform is provided at one end with means forming a headrest and means supporting a tool tray.

6. The carrier of claim 1 wherein said body supporting assembly includes an upper elongated and generally rectangular, rigid body supporting platform, and a lower elongated and generally rectangular frame supporting said platform and including along opposite sides elongated and longitudinal, round bearing shafts pivotally mounting the inner ends of said leg assemblies, outstanding lateral flanges spaced above said bearing shafts and having undersides engageable by said stop means, depending flanges spaced inwardly from said bearing shafts and spacers secured between said flanges and bearing shafts.

7. The carrier of claim 1 wherein each of said leg assemblies includes inner and outer telescopic legs with said outer leg being telescopically nested in said inner leg and provided with longitudinally spaced recesses therein, a spring biased lever movably mounted on the outer end of said inner leg and having a detent resiliently urged into one of said recesses for adjusting said legs longitudinally, the upper side of the inner end of said inner leg being engageable by said stop means and provided with a hollow round transverse sleeve pivotally mounted on and adjustable longitudinally of the underside of said body supporting assembly, and a depeNding foot pad adjustably mounted on the outer end of said outer leg and adapted to rest upon the underlying fender portion of the vehicle.

8. The carrier of claim 7 wherein said body supporting assembly includes an upper elongated and generally rectangular, rigid body supporting platform, and a lower elongated and generally rectangular frame supporting said platform and including along opposite sides elongated and longitudinal, round bearing shafts on which said longitudinally adjustable sleeves are pivotally mounted, outstanding lateral flanges spaced above said bearing shafts and having undersides engageable by said stop means, depending flanges spaced inwardly from said bearing shafts and spacers secured between said flanges and bearing shafts beyond said sleeves.

9. The carrier of claim 8 wherein said each of said stop means includes a wedge engageable between the upper side of said inner end of said inner leg and the underside of said outstanding lateral flange and an adjustable clamp surrounding said inner leg for moving said wedge longitudinally of said inner leg for varying and limiting its outward pivotal movement about and longitudinal adjustment along said bearing shaft.

10. The carrier of claim 9 wherein one end of said platform is provided on its upper side with a cushion forming a headrest and on its underside with longitudinally and pivotally adjustable tracks swingably supporting a tool tray adjacent said platform.