Trolley carrier
OwnerRobert Pageinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle for transporting shopping trolley or carts. The vehicle has a tray for the loading of the shopping trolleys, and adapted for movement from a transportation position to a lower loading position in which trolleys can be easily loaded thereon. The tray maintains a substantially constant horizontal orientation through this movement. A tailgate or rear ramp is positioned at the rear of the tray and is movable between a ground engaging position and a raised position generally blocking the rear of the tray. A mechanical leverage mechanism lowers the ramp as the tray is being raised and raises the ramp as the tray is being raised between their respective upper and lower positions.
Claims15
A vehicle comprising:
- a wheeled body,
- a tray swingably movable by link means mounted on said wheeled body for movement between an upper transportation position and a lower ground engaging loading position,
- a connecting means for connecting said tray to said wheeled body such that said tray retains the substantially same horizontal orientation throughout its movement between said upper transportation position and said lower loading position,
- a rear ramp pivotally positioned at the rear of said tray and movable between a generally horizontally extending ground engaging position and a raised generally vertical position generally blocking the rear of said tray, and
- a mechanical leverage means connected between said tray and body for lowering said ramp to said ground engaging position in response to said tray being lowered to said lower loading position and for raising said ramp to said raised position in response to said tray being raised to said transportation position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.