An airplane jack to lift a light airplane nose wheel off the ground by the nose wheel fork to allow maintenance. The jack uses a lever to manually pivot on rollers to lift the nose wheel fork by non-marring cradling supports. A sliding lever provides unencumbered wheel access and extra safety against any possible pivoting of the jack by repositioning the lever. The jack's width can be adjusted to work with a plurality of nose wheel forks and varied in size and material to operate with a plurality of airplanes.
Airplane Jack
2022-10-27
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64F GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT , Boden- oder Flugzeugträgerdeckeinrichtungen besonders ausgebildet für die Verwendung in Verbindung mit Luftfahrzeugen / B66F HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD , Hub-, Verhol- oder Schubvorrichtungen, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen, z.B. Vorrichtungen mit unmittelbarer Krafteinwirkung auf die Last |