Moving system

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, swiveled, caster wheels on the underside of said platform section capable of carrying the platform section with its heavy load across the floor, at least one of said caster wheels being lockable in a straight ahead position preventing it from swiveling;
• a foot actuated mechanism located on the underside of said platform section and associated with the lockable one of said caster wheels, said foot actuated mechanism including a moveable lever arm connected to a spring biased latch and extending out adjacent to one edge of said platform section, the movement of said lever arm under the action of the user's foot causing said one of said caster wheels to become latched preventing swiveling and unlatched allowing swiveling, depending on the direction of movement of said lever arm;
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• an end ramp section hingedly connected by a hinge to one end of said platform section and being moveable 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, said elastic member biasing said ramp section in an upward disposition when it is raised up;
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• alternatively, over a period of time, moving said lever arm under the action of one's foot causing said one of said caster wheels to become latched preventing swiveling and thereafter unlatched allowing swiveling, depending on the direction of movement of said lever arm by one's foot.

A moving system for a user to move a heavy load of the order of hundreds of pounds, which load has its own wheels, comprising:

• 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 the floor;
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• an end ramp section hingedly connected by a hinge, having a hinge axis and an inner side and an outer side, to one end of said platform section and being moveable 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 said inner side of said hinge axis when said ramp section is in said ramp section's upwardly extending disposition and with said upper portion being at least near to or on said outer side of said hinge axis when said ramp section is down in said ramp section's ramping disposition, said elastic member biasing said ramp section in an upward disposition when said ramp section is raised up and allowing said ramp section to be biased in a downward disposition when said ramp section is lowered to said ramp section's ramping disposition, said ramp section remaining naturally in its ramping disposition but otherwise being free to being moved up under the user's pulling it up with said elastic member then biasing it up to its raised disposition.

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;
• and
• 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;
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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 and its ramping disposition, respectively, 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 pulled down there by the user.