Wheeled apparatus for transporting loads

Apparatus for transporting loads including a pair of freely rotatable spaced apart ground-engaging wheels to enable the apparatus to be pulled or pushed along with the wheels in contact with the ground, a load-carrying frame or container supported on the wheels, wherein the wheels have a high positive camber angle and are each mounted for free rotation on a stub axle, a connector piece extends laterally from each stub axle and each connector piece is mounted at its end remote from the stub axle, to enable the connector piece to swivel, relative to the frame or container, about an axis which is horizontal when the apparatus is being used, over an angular range of 5 to 25°, and means enabling the frame or container to be rotated about a horizontal axis relative to the ground on which the apparatus rests to a position in which the plane containing the axes of the stub axles is vertical.

Load-carrying apparatus comprising an elongate shaft, a handle mounted on a first end of the shaft, three stub axles mounted on a second end of the shaft, and three rotatable ground-engaging members, each of said ground-engaging members being mounted on one of the three stub axles, wherein the stub axles are mounted evenly around the shaft and an axis of rotation of each of said rotatable ground-engaging members intersects a longitudinal direction of the shaft at an angle of from about 25° to about 80°.

A load-carrying cart comprising a flat bed for supporting a load, at least three ground-engaging wheels mounted below the flat bed, a handle for pulling the cart along, and means to enable the handle to swivel about a substantially horizontal axis, wherein two wheels of the at least three ground-engaging wheels are mounted spaced apart and said two wheels are mounted on axles rigidly fixed to the handle, and with said two wheels being set at an angle to one another whereby axes of rotation of the two wheels are coplanar and the angle between a plane containing the axes of rotation and a surface of the flat bed are variable by swivelling the handle.

A load-carrying apparatus comprising an elongate shaft;

• a handle mounted on a first end of said shaft;
• a container mounted on a second end of said shaft, two stub axles fixedly mounted on the container or the second end of the shaft, and two rotatable ground-engaging members having coplanar axes of rotation, each of said two rotatable ground-engaging members being mounted on one of the stub axles, and each stub axle being set at an angle a with respect to each other between about 10° to about 100°.