Combined hand truck and raised support stand for equipment
OwnerSheldon Jay Guntherinventor
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Abstract
A combination hand truck and equipment stand to be used by musicians, sound reinforcement companies and sound personnel, lighting companies and lighting personnel, clubs, schools, theaters, concert halls and Houses of Worship for transporting equipment (instrument amplifiers, sound and lighting consoles, speaker enclosures, audio processing racks and general miscellaneous equipment) transforms into a stand for said musical instrument amplifiers, sound and lighting consoles, standard 19″ audio equipment racks, stage monitors, loudspeaker enclosures, and storage boxes, etc.
Claims14
A combined hand truck with a support platform, primarily used for transport and placement of devices, comprising:
- a frame with two wheels and folding elements including a stand and a transport platform, wherein
- the stand is divided into two parts by a support platform hinge with a locking system, where
- the stand has an upper part which, upon tilting to a working position, forms the support platform for placement of the devices, from which support bars depend, whereas
- to this support platform the support bars of the stand are inserted at their free ends into fixed connections of the transport platform, the support platform capable of tilting down towards the transport platform by removing the free ends of the support bars from the fixed connections, and where
- the stand is equipped with a stabilizing support to increase the strength of the frame with the support platform tilted into the working position, and wherein
- the free ends of the support bars in tilted functional position of the support platform are inserted into holes defined in the frame of the tilted transport platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.