Mission adaptable portable cart/utility table arrangement
View Patent ↗A mission adaptable multi-purpose, collapsible portable cart/utility table, for use in emergency response and disaster situations, camping, hunting and other outdoors activities, which carries medical rescue carts, canoes, small boats, game, or hauled cargo by hand. It transports one or more cargo bins over long, rough terrain and each bin can include one or more cabinet drawers therein, wherein upon tilting of a cargo bin from a horizontal transport position to a substantially vertical position the cargo bin serves as a supply cabinet. Each bin is openable to expose the supply drawers for use.
1. A method of deploying a portable cargo bin having a cabinet system of a plurality of slidable drawers, said portable cargo bin having at least one latch and said portable cargo bin being secured to a movable collapsible cart support, said movable support having at least one pair of movement actuators, wherein:
said cargo bin comprising a top shell having a top outer surface, a first top side surface, a second top side surface, a top front surface, and a top rear surface; said top shell having said plurality of slidable drawers
a bottom shell having a bottom outer surface, a first bottom side surface, a second bottom side surface, a bottom front surface, and a bottom rear surface;
said method comprising the steps of:
i) securing said at least one pair of vehicle movement actuators to prevent movement of said movable collapsible cart support while said top shell and said bottom shell are in an initial horizontal standing transport rest position,
ii) applying force to tilt said movable collapsible cart support about a first axis away from said horizontal transport rest position until a first partially upright rest position is reached, said force applied to a pair of handles in connection with said movable collapsible cart support. and said first axis of tilt being the vertex formed of the intersection between said bottom outer surface and said bottom front surface;
iii) applying force to tilt said movable collapsible cart support about a second axis until a second fully upright rest position of said cargo bin is reached, said second axis of tilt being the vertex formed of the intersection between said top outer surface and said top front surface;
iv) disengaging said at least one latch to release said top shell of said cargo bin having said slidable drawers, and
v) separating said fully upright top shell from bottom shell and said movable portable cart support, thereby exposing said slidable drawers for opening outward from said top shell of said cargo bin; allowing said bottom shell return to said first partially upright rest position or to return fully to the initial horizontal standing transport rest position.
2. The method as in claim 1 further comprising the step of removing respective straps holding said top shell from said bottom shell.