Patents Assigned to Tipke Manufacturing Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 4729574
    Abstract: A wheeled material carrier convertible for use as a hand cart or as a vehicular trailer. The carrier is provided with side members having downwardly open sockets at their front edges. Interchangeable support member can be readily mounted to the wheeled material carrier. They can be selected from rigid legs releasably mounted in the sockets, a bicycle hitch having forwardly extending hitch members releasably mounted in the sockets, or a utility hitch having two forwardly extending hitch members releasably mounted in the sockets and a central hitch member releasably attached to a handle extending across the front of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Tipke Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Tipke
  • Patent number: 4669743
    Abstract: A collapsible wheeled material carrier which folds to a storage position when not in use. The carrier has a frame with transversely folding braces and a folding bottom. It also has a folding extensible handle assembly. The carrier can be hand propelled or moved by a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Tipke Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Jim Tipke
  • Patent number: D301654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Tipke Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Tipke