Pneumatic lift jack

• US 4,948,107 A
• Filed: 09/18/1989
• Issued: 08/14/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goodrich Corporation (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Goodrich Corporation (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Orndorff, Roy L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartman, Judy
• Application Number:
  US07/408,820
• Time in Patent Office: 330 Days
• Field of Search: 254/93 HP, 138/30, 138/93, 114/65 R, 220/232
• US Class Current: 254/93.0HP
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 22/02 Inflatable articles
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2021/00 Use of unspecified rubbers as moulding material
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 3/35 Inflatable flexible elements, e.g. bellows inflatable load-engaging elements B66F3/40; connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 15/10 the motor being of diaphragm type

Abstract

A pneumatic jack comprising flat sheets of an elastomeric material with no cords therein peripherally held in place by rigid framing members. The jack also includes a valve for communicating with the interior of the sheets. A source of aeroform fluid is utilized for inflating the jack to an enlarged shape to lift a car sufficiently for changing a tire.

Claims

1. A pneumatic jack consisting of a pair of flat separate sheets with each sheet having separate peripheral edges, said sheets made of an elastomeric material, rigid framing means encompassing the entire peripheral edges of said sheets which include the entire periphery of said sheets, each of said sheets on being encompassed by said framing means around the entire periphery of said sheets to provide each of said sheets with separate exterior surfaces and an interior surfaces, said rigid framing means joins said flat sheets into a unitary whole, valve means in communication with said interior surfaces of said pair of sheets whereby a source of fluid is operative to inflate said jack to an enlarged shape, said framing means includes a pair of spaced framing members that are coextensive with said entire peripheral edges of said sheets but disposed on said exterior surfaces of said sheets to provide said spacing of said framing members, and said sheets and said framing members are generally polygonal in plan configuration with arcuate corners, said framing members being positioned on said sheets and coupled together for tilting as a unitary whole to permit said framing members to contact the ground to resist rolling of said pneumatic jack.

2. A pneumatic jack as set forth in claim 1 wherein said polygonal shape is a rectangle.

3. A pneumatic jack comprising a pair of

flat rectangular sheets of an elastomeric material with peripheral side edges;

rigid, rectangular framing means encompassing and connecting said peripheral edges of said sheets to define a pair of exterior surfaces and a pair of interior surfaces on said flat sheets;

valve means in pneumatic communication with said interior surfaces of said sheets whereby a source of pressurized fluid may be utilized for inflating said jack to an enlarged, oval shape for lifting at least a portion of a car for permitting the changing of a tire;

said framing means are positioned on said exterior surfaces of said sheets, connecting means extending through said framing means and said sheets to join said sheets and framing means into an integral whole, and said jack being operative to tilt with said sheets on inflation to permit said framing means to contact the ground to resist rolling of said pneumatic jack.