Method and system for a low height lift device

Abstract

A method and system for a scissors lift vehicle are provided. The scissors lift vehicle includes a carriage including a plurality of independently steerable wheels configured to engage a travel surface, the wheels including an axis of rotation and a circular profile having a radius R, the wheels spaced apart in a fore/aft direction and in a right/left direction. The scissors lift vehicle also includes a base coupled to the carriage between the wheels spaced apart in the right/left direction within a profile of the wheels and a scissors stack assembly including a plurality of scissors linkages extendable from a retracted position, where the scissors linkages are approximately horizontally configured to an extended position, where the scissors linkages are approximately orthogonally configured with respect to each other, the scissors stack assembly pivotally coupled to the base through a first pair of scissors linkages, the scissors stack assembly slidably coupled to the base through a second pair of scissors linkages.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.