Safety folding cart
View Patent ↗A collapsible cart includes at least one platform and rolling casters. The platform includes pivotable panels that medially break enabling the cart to collapse for storage purposes. Adjacent pivotable panels are connected via pivotable plates. The pivotable plates are connected to struts that are connected to a sliding member configured to be lockable in a fixed position or slide along a medial support member bridging the one or more platforms. The struts are connected to a middle support member that terminates in a middle caster on each side of the collapsible cart.
1. A safety cart comprising:
the cart includes a collapsed configuration and an uncollapsed configuration;
a plurality of frame members;
a first set of caster wheels, each wheel of the first set at a corner of the cart;
at least one panel pair of adjacent panels, each panel of the adjacent panel pair is joined to a pivot plate, each pivot plate is pivotably connected to medial pivot member, and each medial pivot member is connected to a middle support member;
a middle caster connected to an end of each middle support member; and
the adjacent panels of the at least one panel pair includes a transverse gap of at least ⅝ inch between the adjacent panels and the adjacent panels are configured to pivotably form an inverted ‘V’ shape when the cart is in the collapsed configuration.
2. The safety cart according to claim 1 , further comprising a sliding member mounted to the middle support member.
3. The safety cart according to claim 1 , further comprising angularly displaceable struts connected to a sliding member and the pivot plates.
4. The safety cart according to claim 1 , further comprising friction washers at pivot points.
5. The safety cart according to claim 1 , further comprising a lock configured to secure the cart in the collapsed configuration or the uncollapsed configuration.