Displaceable lifting platform for automotive vehicles

Claim 1

IN A LIFT FOR VEHICLES, A BASE DEFINING A NORMALLYHORIZONTAL PLANE, A PAIR OF RIGIDLY INTERCONNECTED LATERALLYSPACED PARALLEL LOAD ARMS EACH PIVOTED AT ONE END, ON A COMMON, NORMALLY-HORIZONTAL FIRST AXIS, TO ONE END OF SAID BASE, EACH SAID LOAD ARM HAVING FIRST VEHICLE-ENGAGING LIFT MEANS AT ITS DISTAL END, FIRST AND SECOND, LATERALLY-SPACED, RIGIDLY INTERCONNECTED SUPPORT ARMS, EACH PIVOTED AT ONE END THEREOF ON A COMMON HORIZONTAL SECOND AXIS TO A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID LOAD ARMS, BETWEEN THE ENDS THEREOF, SECOND VEHICLE-ENGAGING LIFT MEANS CARRIED BY THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID SUPPORT ARMS, INTERENGAGING ABUTMENT MEANS CARRIED BY SAID ARMS ADJACENT SAID SECOND AXIS, AND INTERENGAGING AND PIVOTING SAID SUPPORT ARMS AS A UNIT WITH SAID LOAD ARMS, ABOUT SAID FIRST AXIS, ONLY AFTER SAID LOAD ARMS HAVE PIVOTED THROUGH A SUBSTANTIAL ANGLE ABOUT SAID FIRST AXIS, OUT OF THE PLANE OF SAID BASE, AND HYDRAULIC PRESSURE FLUID MEANS CARRIED BY SAID BASE, AND ACTING UPON SAID LOAD ARMS TO PIVOT THE SAME OUT OF SAID PLANE IN RESPONSE TO INTRODUCTION OF PRESSURE FLUID THEREINTO.