The present application relates to a transport for transporting a trailer stand. The transport for a trailer stand may be a portable trailer stand and may comprise one or more auxiliary trailer stands. The portable trailer stand may include a pedestal having a top for engaging and supporting the underside of the nose portion of a trailer, a bottom for engaging the ground, wheel means mounted on the pedestal for moving the stand along the ground to and from a position under the nose portion of a trailer, means for adjusting the height of said pedestal, and a member for engaging and securing the auxiliary trailer stand to the portable trailer stand.

An apparatus useful for moving a load. The apparatus includes a carriage with two frames, each one has a hinge end. The frames are hingeably connected to each other at the hinge end. One frame is mounted on a rail to move the carriage therealong. The other frame is moveable relative to the first frame about the hinge end. A jack assembly is connected to the frames and is actuatable to move one frame relative to the other frame about the hinge end. A brake assembly is located away from the hinge end and has a brake plate member connected to one frame for resilient axial movement. The brake assembly also has a brake plate stopper connected to the first frame, and is moveable between a carriage stopping configuration, in which the brake plate stopper engages the brake plate member, and a carriage moving configuration in which the brake plate stopper is retracted away from the brake plate member.

A vehicle jack, such as a battery-operated vehicle jack is provided. The jack includes a base, a lift arm, a crank arm, an actuator coupled to the lift arm and an electric motor to actuate the actuator. The lift arm includes a first end that engages a load and a second end that is moveably coupled to the base. The crank arm includes a third end that is pivotally coupled to the base and a fourth end that is pivotally coupled to the lift arm between the first end and the second end. The electric motor actuates the actuator to move the second end of the lift arm relative to the third end of the crank arm to cause a vertical movement at the first end of the lift arm between a lowered position and a raised position.

A tire lifter is provided having a horizontal frame in a vertical support, the horizontal frame providing for wheel movement of the tire lifter. A drive lift mechanism is positioned within the vertical upright of the frame and includes a screw drive that is used to raise and lower a pair of support arms which cradle a tire or a tire and wheel combination. Further, the support arms which cradle the tire can also be adjusted in a forward and rearward direction to allow for easier placement of a tire relative to an automobile.

A jack apparatus is provided for lifting a low rider vehicle, even though the vehicle has very low ground clearance. The jack apparatus includes interfitting upper and lower subframes supported by a scissor lift. The upper subframe includes opposing parallel arms shaped to fit within a generally triangular cavity defined by the vehicle's tire and sheet metal and ground surface, such that the jack apparatus can engage the vehicle's tire and lift the vehicle without violating the generally triangular cavity, thus leading to a safer and better system for lifting the low rider without potentially damaging vehicle's sheet metal components. The jack apparatus includes width-adjustable arms and legs for flexible use, which are removable or collapsible to a very low shape for compact storage. Also, the upper subframe includes a table, allowing it to lift an ATV or motorcycle.

A jack and dolly assembly and system including a shaft defining a longitudinal axis extending along the shaft and an interior hollow; a reversible drive mechanism at least partially positioned in the interior hollow of the shaft; a proximal arm removably secured to the shaft and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; a distal arm removably secured to the drive mechanism, the distal arm being spaced from and substantially parallel to the proximal arm; wherein the reversible drive mechanism is operable to move the distal arm along the shaft.

A lift device and a vehicle parking robot including the same are disclosed. The lift device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a lift device coupled to a robot body of a vehicle parking robot that lifts a vehicle having a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels and parks it in a parking lot, and the lift device may include a frame liftably coupled to the robot body; a first driving part for elevating the frame with respect to the robot body; an elastic support part that elastically supports the frame with respect to the robot body when the frame descends with respect to the robot body; and a fork part coupled to the frame and supporting the pair of front wheels or the pair of rear wheels.

Automated jackstand systems and methods deploy a jackstand to support a front end of a trailer parked at an automated loading dock. The jackstand prevents collapse of the trailer's landing gear and prevents upending of the trailer during loading and unloading. Advantageously, by deploying the jackstand automatically, presence of personnel in the yard where tractors and trailers are moving is not required.

A removeable vehicle hardtop lift apparatus is described which includes a lower platform, an upper platform and a linear actuator there-between. The upper platform may have adjustable supports, The linear actuator may be configured to move the upper platform linearly. The linear actuator may include a drive mechanism with a hand crank that is operable to cause the linear actuator to raise and lower the upper platform.

Automated jackstand systems and methods deploy a jackstand to support a front end of a trailer parked at an automated loading dock. The jackstand prevents collapse of the trailer's landing gear and prevents upending of the trailer during loading and unloading. Advantageously, by deploying the jackstand automatically, presence of personnel in the yard where tractors and trailers are moving is not required.