Dismantlable and collapsible utility cart

A utility cart comprising:

• a chassis member having forward and rearward ends and upper and lower portions;
• a pair of rear wheels on said chassis member;
• a battery compartment depending from a lower portion of said chassis member;
• a battery removably contained in said compartment;
• a front wheeled support for the cart having front and rear portions and including a front wheel and a fork assembly therefor;
• detaching means on the forward end of said chassis member and on said front wheeled support detachably securing said chassis member and said front wheeled support together;
• said front wheeled support including an upright steering handle;
• releasable locking pivot means connected between said steering handle and said front wheel and fork assembly holding said steering handle either in an upright steering position, a folded down compacted position substantially parallel with said front wheel and fork assembly, or a forward pivoted position to serve as a push-pull handle for manipulating the cart;
• releasably locking telescoping means in said steering handle arranged to telescope and foreshortened handle;
• an electric motor supported on said front wheel and fork assembly;
• drive means between said motor and said front wheel;
• control means extending from said motor to an upper portion of said steering handle;
• circuit wire means extending between said motor, battery and control means, said circuit wire means being of an arrangement to maintain a circuit to said control means in the forward pivoted position of said steering handle whereby said control means is capable of controlling power to said motor when said steering handle is in its said steering position or its forward pivoted position;
• said drive means comprising a belt and pulley drive which normally slips on the pulleys to provide free wheeling of said wheel, a belt tightener on said front wheel support operated by said control means to tighten said belt when said control means is engaged for driving the wheel, and a switch in said circuit wire means engageable by said belt tightener operative to close said circuit wire means when said belt is tightened for driving the wheel and to open said circuit wire means when said belt slips for providing freewheeling of the wheel;
• a disconnect in said circuit wire means allowing said chassis member and front wheeled support to separate upon disengagement of said detaching means;
• and an upstanding seat detachably secured to the upper portion of said chassis member;
• said front wheeled support with said steering handle telescoped and pivoted in folded down compacted condition parallel with said wheel and fork assembly and said chassis member when detached from said front wheeled support with said seat detached all being compacted into individual pieces capable of being readily carried as separate packages by one person.