WHEELED CARRYING DEVICE
A wheeled carrying device comprising a lightweight frame having a wheel mounted at one end of the frame and a handle at the other end of the frame. Removably suspended from the frame is a container in which objects to be carried can be placed. The frame includes a downwardly extending stop, such that, with the container removed, the frame can be inverted and objects can be carried on the inverted side of the frame, with the now upwardly projecting stop preventing the object from sliding into the wheel.
1 . A wheeled carrying device comprising:
a frame having a wheel at one end and a handle at the other end;
said frame including a pair of spaced side members, each with a support projecting generally laterally therefrom for receiving the spaced handles of a container, whereby a container can be conveyed from place to place by hanging its handles on said supports, and can be removed from said frame by removing said handles from said supports.
2 . The device of claim 1 which includes a container with a pair of handles on opposite sides thereof, removeably hanging from said supports on said frame.
3 . The device of claim 2 in which said supports are preferably arcuately shaped, arching upwardly, for receiving arcuately shaped handles on said container.
4 . The device of claim 2 in which said frame side members include downwardly projecting forward wheel supporting tines joined by a stop member which projects downwardly from the downwardly projecting tines;
said device being invertible such that said downwardly projecting tines are oriented generally horizontally and said stop member is projecting upwardly from said tines instead of downwardly, whereby objects can be loaded onto said frame in abutting engagement with said stop member and conveyed.
5 . The device of claim 4 in which said frame side members define spaced central portions which terminate at their forward ends at inwardly turned forward portions, which in turn terminate at said downwardly projecting wheel supporting tines; said central portions terminating at their rear portions at downwardly and rearwardly angled short portions, which in turn terminate at rearwardly extending, generally parallel spaced handles.
6 . The device of claim 5 in which a frame cross member joins said side members together at a point spaced sufficiently rearwardly along the length of said side members from said laterally projecting supports that it does not interfere with the opening in a removeably mounted container.
7 . The device of claim 5 in which said side members are formed into said handles, said short portions, said central portions, said forward portions and said tines by bending metal tubing into a shape defining said portions.
8 . The device of claim 5 in which said side members are formed into said handles, said short portions, said central portions, said forward portions and said tines by welding said portions into a unit.
9 . The device of claim 5 in which the angle between said forward members and said tines is about 130°; the angle between said center portion and said short portions is approximately 150°; and the angle between said short members and said handles is approximately 150°.
10 . The device of claim 5 in which a frame cross member joins said side members together at a point spaced sufficiently rearwardly along the length of said side members from said laterally projecting supports that it does not interfere with the opening in a removeably mounted container.
11 . The device of claim 1 in which said frame side members include downwardly projecting forward wheel supporting tines joined by a generally U-shaped cross member which projects downwardly from the downwardly projecting tines;
said device being invertible such that said downwardly projecting tines are oriented generally horizontally and said U-shaped cross member is projecting upwardly from said tines instead of downwardly, whereby objects can be loaded onto said frame in abutting engagement with said U-shaped cross member and conveyed.
12 . The device of claim 11 in which said frame side members define spaced central portions which terminate at their forward ends at inwardly turned forward portions, which in turn terminate at said downwardly projecting wheel supporting tines; said central portions terminating at their rear portions at downwardly and rearwardly angled short portions, which in turn terminate at rearwardly extending, generally parallel spaced handles.
13 . The device of claim 12 in which a frame cross member joins said side members together at a point spaced sufficiently rearwardly along the length of said side members from said laterally projecting supports that it does not interfere with the opening in a removeably mounted container.
14 . The device of claim 13 wherein the angle between said forward members and said tines is about 130°; the angle between said center portion and said short portions is approximately 150°; and the angle between said short members and said handles is approximately 150°.
15 . The device of claim 1 in which said frame side members define spaced central portions which terminate at their forward ends at inwardly turned forward portions, which in turn terminate at said downwardly projecting wheel supporting tines; said central portions terminating at their rear portions at downwardly and rearwardly angled short portions, which in turn terminate at rearwardly extending, generally parallel spaced handles.
16 . The device of claim 5 in which the angle between said forward members and said tines is about 130°; the angle between said center portion and said short portions is approximately 150°; and the angle between said short members and said handles is approximately 150°.
17 . The device of claim 1 in which a frame cross member joins said side members together at a point spaced sufficiently rearwardly along the length of said side members from said laterally projecting supports that it does not interfere with the opening in a removeably mounted container.
18 . The device of claim 1 , in which a stop member which projects downwardly from said frame, near said wheel;
said device being invertible such that said stop member is projecting upwardly from said frame instead of downwardly, whereby objects can be loaded onto said frame in abutting engagement with said stop member and conveyed.