Abstract: An orchard lift apparatus including a bicycle-type seat upon which an orchard worker may sit, said seat mounted on an elongated pole passing upward through a sleeve and friction hemisphere, said hemisphere resting within a socketed bridge through which said sleeve passes downward, a cable, attached to said sleeve-hemisphere unit, extends downward, approximately parallel to said pole, and is wound or unwound by the worker, on a drum at the base of said pole, by means of foot pedals. Whereby, the worker may move upward or downward, and may change the attitude of the seat in any direction, two straight poles or tubes constitute the legs, angling inward in an upward direction, the above mentioned socketed bridge rigidly fastened to, and spanning across the tops of said pole legs.

Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle of the type having a wheel to which power is to be applied to rotate it and a drive means to provide wheel turning power, includes a cone-shaped member with concentric rings of teeth on its surface adapted to be concentrically attached to the wheel to be powered, and a drive sprocket ring encircling the axis of the cone-shaped member and having engagement means thereon adapted to cooperate with a selected ring of teeth on the cone-shaped member. A shifting means is adapted to shift the sprocket ring so that the engagement means may engage any of the rings of teeth selected. The ring of teeth selected determines the ratio of the transmission.