Hand-truck with attachments
OwnerPerry L. Scholderinventor
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Abstract
A two-wheeled hand-truck with attachments, with an elevating mechanism incorporated into the body. The upright rails are tubular, and open on the bottom ends. A crank operated cable and pulley system forcibly extends the elevator downwardly. The attachments allow the body to be converted into a four wheel cart with a variable width wheelbase, and a crank operated, pulley assisted, fork lift, or hoist.
Claims16
A hand-truck apparatus for elevating and transporting an object comprising a body unit including a handle unit attached to a plurality of longitudinally extended rails attached to a base having a plurality of ground engaging wheels, a plurality of horizontally extended rails outstanding from a front edge of said base having a plurality of directionally positionable wheels attached to said horizontally extended rails, said base, said logitudinally extended rails, and said horizontally extended rails arranged in a manner which permits the object to set on said horizontally extended rails and lie against a front side of said body unit when the hand-truck apparatus is tipped rearward onto said ground engaging wheels, an elevating mechanism for lifting and lowering a load supporting mechanism movably mounted on the front of said body unit, a vertical rail attached to said body unit, and an attachable rail extending horizontally over said horizontally extended rails mounted on said vertical rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.