Moving system

A method for allowing a user to move a heavy load of the order of hundreds of pounds an extended distance, which load has its own wheels which generally do not allow the load to be moved over such an extended distance, comprising the following steps:

• a) providing a moving system including
• at least one, longitudinally extended, platform, dolly section capable of carrying the heavy load on its upper surface;
• heavy duty caster wheels on the underside of said platform section capable of carrying the platform section with its heavy load across a surface for the extended distance;
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• an end ramp section hingedly connected by a hinge to one end of said platform section and being manually moveable by the user from an upwardly extended disposition down to a floor contacting, ramping disposition for rolling the heavy load up it unto said platform section, said end ramp section including at least one elastic, flexible, elongated member extending from an upper portion of said ramp section to a lower portion, with said lower portion being associated with the platform section and being on the inner side of the hinge point when said ramp section is in its upwardly extending disposition and with said upper portion being at least near, if not on, the other, outer side of the hinge point when said ramp section is down in its ramping disposition, said elastic member biasing said ramp section in an upward disposition when it is raised up and allowing it to be biased down in a downward disposition when it is lowered to its ramping disposition, said ramp end section having an underside;
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• alternatively, over a period of time, manually moving said ramp section from its upwardly extended disposition and down to its ramping disposition and back up again, using the biasing forces and elasticity of said elastic member to bias said ramp section into its upwardly extended disposition, with the user needing to move the ramp section up from its ramping disposition until the biasing forces of said elastic member biases said ramp section into its upwardly extended disposition, but the ramping section otherwise naturally remaining in its ramping disposition after it has been pulled down there by the user;
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• further providing said moving system with a ramp braking support member located on the underside of said ramp end section and having a base with high friction material on its bottom, floor contacting surface;
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• lowering said ramp end section about said ramp end section's hinge point initially against the biasing force of said elastic member down to its ramping position until said ramp braking support member contacts the floor, raising at least some of said casters off of the floor, effectively immobilizing the moving system from movement across the floor.

A method of a moving heavy load of the order of hundreds of pounds, which load has its own wheels, comprising the following steps:

• a) providing a moving system, including
• at least one, longitudinally extended, platform, dolly section capable of carrying the heavy load on its upper surface;
• at least three heavy duty, swivelled, caster wheels on the underside of said platform section capable of carrying the platform section with its heavy load across the floor;
• and
• a pivoting, platform braking support member located on the underside of said platform section and having high friction material on a bottom, floor contacting surface;
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• lowering said platform braking member about its pivot to its downward most position by moving a laterally extending, resiliently biased pin mechanism laterally out using an exteriorly exposed, downwardly projecting head, engaging said head with one's foot pulling it out, causing said braking member to become unlatched, allowing it to fall and pivot down under the action of gravity, with said platform section then being supported at least in significant part by said platform braking member, raising at least some of said casters off of the floor, effectively immobilizing the moving system from movement across the floor.