Portable cart
AssigneeNorth Coast Outfitters, Ltd.
InventorCharles W. Darling, III
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Abstract
A portable cart, for use in camping, hunting and other outdoors activities carries canoes, small boats, game, injured parties or hauled cargo by hand. The portable cart can be converted to a canoe or boat cart which can be folded down and transported within the canoe or boat, or to a game cart for transporting game over long, rough terrain, or to a cargo hauling gear cart, all of which can broken down into a carrying position, by hand or by back. The portable cart can be carried by hand or as a backpack over rough terrain. Its width can be varied to accommodate watercraft of varying widths. It is collapsible, so that it can be disassembled and carried in a canoe or small boat, and then reassembled at another destination along the canoe or boat's journey.
Claims20
A cart collapsible for storage and transport and expandable for use in carrying a load, comprising:
- a pair of parallel, spaced apart horizontal rigid load support members;
- said support members each being in the shape of an inverted U in cross section with a rectangular well and having a front end wall portion and a rear end wall portion;
- a downward extending vertical strut for each of said support members having an upper end received within the well of each of said support members;
- a wheel demountably attached to a lower end of each vertical strut, and a demountable axle means for attaching said wheels to said vertical struts;
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- means in said support members to store and retain said axle means within said rectangular well when said cart is collapsed, with said pair of said support members and vertical struts being placed adjacent to each other to allow convenient carrying of said cart after collapsing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.