Land vehicles – Wheeled – Extensible
Patent
1985-10-17
1986-11-25
Love, John J.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Extensible
280652, 280656, 280 4718, 280 4737R, B62B 112
Patent
active
046244670
ABSTRACT:
An improved foldable utility cart has a hauling body formed by a floor and a pair of opposite wheel-bearing side panels, and a handle assembly mounted to the side panels, adapting the hauling body for manually-powered push or pulling type of locomotion. Pivot plates fixed at opposite ends of the floor mount the side panels for pivotal movement between erected transport positions in which the side panels togehter with the floor form a load supporting cavity in the body and mobilize the body and a folded storage position in which the side panels overlie the floor so as to eliminate teh cavity and immobilize the body for storage. Each side panel has a wall member and a longitudinal tube connected along the exterior of the wall member adjacent to its lower longitudinal edge. The tube has opposite ends at which it and thus the side panel is mounted to the floor pivot plates located outside of the load supporting cavity. Also, upturned opposite side edges of the floor snugly fit against the side panel wall members when the side panels are in their erected positions to form closed longitudinal corners in the load supporting cavity. Also, a latching mechanism is disposed outside of the cavity below the floor and adjacent each wheel on one of the side panels. Each wheel is rotatably mounted by an axle to its side panel outside of the cavity. An inner end of the axle underlies the floor and is engaged and locked in place by the latching mechanism when the side panel has been pivoted to its erected transport position. By actuating each of the latching mechanisms to disengage from the respective inner ends of the wheel axles, the side panels and wheels mounted thereto can be pivoted to their folded storage positions.
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Foldit Cart Sales Brochure, 2 pages, undated.
Flanagan John R.
Love John J.
Mar Michael
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