Who invented the original concept of the parallelogram lift?  OMER!  In the late 70s a brilliant engineer by the name of Eride Rossato converted the basic concept of a parallelogram (remember your high school geometry class?) to be used in the context of vehicle lifts. 

In geometry, a parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. In Euclidean geometry, the opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure. 

Basically Mr. Rossato took this concept and applied to lifting both automotive and heavy-duty vehicles.  In order to insure that the two runways remained parallel during lifting Mr. Rossato came up with the unique concept of a torsion bar.  The torsion bar is a mechanical device that insures co-planarity and is one of the hallmark features of an Omer lift.  The torsion bar is simply a mechanical linkage between the legs that connect to the runways and serves as both a mechanical connection and a form of synchronization.  

In the late 80s the original concept of Mr. Rossato’s design was copied by others but no one has ever been able to duplicate the torsion bar concept.  The Omer torsion bar allows the following benefits:

1)    Other competitors make the concrete the anchoring device for the lift and they call this an “open floor design.”  This is not altogether the best solution since over 70 anchor bolts have to be drilled in the ground at a depth of 8 inches to insure that the lift stays anchored in the shop floor.  Over the years and after continuous hinging the concrete can become cracked.  With the torsion bar design this can never happen because the torsion bar and the continuous base (a metal connection between the legs) becomes the anchoring device for the lift. 

2)    Allows for co-planarity (alignment between the two lifting runways that the vehicle sits on) between the runways.

3)    Allows for the lift to be situated over relatively uneven floors and requires no anchoring per se.  (In order to avoid shifting of the lift lag bolts [5/8”] are placed on the bottom of the lift to prevent shifting of the lift in surface mount applications.

The original Omer concept contains the following benefits and features: 

• The lift can be installed in a surface mounted environment or a flush mounted environment.
• With a flush mounted environment the lift sits in a pit (approximately 13” deep) and extended legs allows for 77 inch height.
• All Omer lifts use special 24 V (very low voltage lighting) available as an option.
• The standard height for an Omer lift is 73” which allows for the tallest mechanic in the shop!
• The Omer lift can be special ordered with any color you want at no extra cost to you!
• The Omer lift comes in many different capacities including:
  
  
  • Vega 90   (19,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 120 (26,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 180 (40,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 240 (50,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 340 (75,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 450 (100,000 lbs.)
  • Vega 520 (115,000 lbs.)

THE ORIGINAL OMER PARALLELOGRAM LIFT CANNOT BE EQUALED.  IT IS THE BEST AND HIGHEST QUALITY PARALLELOGRAM LIFT IN THE INDUSTRY.