Author : Vishesh Ranglani, Sateesh Kumar and Rahul Davis

A Bottle jack is a jack which works on the principle of hydraulics (hence falls under the category of hydraulic jacks) and resembles a bottle in its shape. It can be used for lifting vehicles to undergo repair work or dealing with flat tires. It can also be used in interconnection with more bottle jacks for lifting structures and for some household purposes. With the use of bottle jacks short vertical heights can be achieved. The former model was carefully studied in terms of the design features, specifications, capacity and with the help of new methodology an attempt was made to fabricate a new design that can work horizontally, producing same capacity within the economic range. The work consists of the fabrication of the new model and projects the advantages of the new method over existing methods. The new design was successfully made and was able to fulfill all the required objectives. The following work can be a new eye opener for the design engineers dealing with making the jack work horizontally.

Keywords: Horizontal bottle jack, hydraulic jack, fluid mechanics, automotive hydraulic jack, bottle jack.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec-2014)