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US 2008/0164669 A1Published application
LPG tank and cart therefor
AssigneeBishamon Industries Corporation
InventorRobert M. Stone
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Abstract
A cart is clamped to a tank for liquid propane gas and has a height which is a minor fraction of the height of the tank. In projections of the cart and the carriage on a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the tank, no more than a minor fraction of the projection of the cart is located outside the projection of the tank.
Claims33
A carriage comprising:
- a gripping member defining an opening for receipt of a selected part of an article to be gripped, said gripping member extending circumferentially of said opening and being elastically deformable between an expanded condition and a contracted condition, and said opening having a first size in said expanded condition which is sufficiently large for the selected part of the article to enter said opening, said opening having a second size smaller than said first size in said contracted condition, and said second size being selected such that said gripping member grips the selected part of the article when the selected part is received in said opening and said gripping member is in said contracted condition;
- at least one rolling member;
- and
- means for mounting said at least one rolling member on said gripping member.
1 more element
A manually transportable arrangement comprising:
- a container for fluid movable between an upright position and a lying position;
- and
- a carriage for said container, said carriage including a gripping member defining an opening which receives a part of said container, and said gripping member gripping said part of said container, said carriage further including at least one rolling member and means mounting said at least one rolling member on said gripping member, and said container and said carriage being designed so that, while said gripping member grips said part of said container, said container can be in said lying position with said carriage substantially free of contact with all objects other than said container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.