Abstract: A handtruck having a collapsible supporting surface adaptable for converting the handtruck into a portable work table. The handtruck is provided with a toe blade extender pivotal between folded and operative positions adjacent to the standard toe blade of the handtruck. The toe blade extender has dual functions. First, in its operative position parallel to and in abutment with the toe blade, it enables the handtruck to handle bulky loads. Second, in an intermediate position between its folded and operative positions, it serves as a support for a planar supporting surface which is pivotally attached to the handtruck frame at the opposite end thereof from the toe blade extender and serves as a work table when pivoted away from the handtruck frame and supported by the toe blade extender.

Abstract: A projectile pallet hand truck is provided for one man mechanical operation in moving heavy loads. Curved rocker arms on wheels facilitate pallet positioning, and an extensible lever is used in transferring the load center of gravity over tricycle wheels for movement. Extra handles are provided for easier operator movement when the truck is in loaded position.

Abstract: A hand operated vehicle for the transportation of materials at construction job sites which is capable of receiving and containing increased material loads. The vehicle may be transported from a supply point to a disbursing point in a unitary configuration, whereupon it may be separated into component parts. The components may be manuevered to separate utilization points by a single man, the weight of each component not exceeding the weight which supporting scaffolding can safely sustain.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaning apparatus is disclosed in which a wheeled carriage supports a plurality of different size collection tanks on a pivot support rod extending between upward extending portions of a handle frame mounted on the carriage base. The rear of each of the tanks includes a transverse groove dimensioned to slip onto the pivot support rod. The tanks may be pivoted about the support rod to dump the contents contained therein. A carriage anti-tilt support, pivotally mounted on the carriage, prevents tipping of the carriage during tank dumping.

Abstract: A carrier for one or more compressed gas cylinders each having a portion, the under side of which is arranged to receive a supporting hook, the carrier having a frame approximating the height of the cylinder and including a hook near its upper end, the frame being tiltable in one direction with respect to the cylinder for insertion of the hook under the hook receiving portion; the side of the frame opposite from the cylinder having carrier wheels, whereby, upon tilting of the frame in the opposite direction, the hook is raised to support the cylinder in contact with the frame; the frame is provided with a safety bail or retainer loop movable over the cylinder and engagable therewith to provide a second retainer for the cylinder.

Abstract: A trolley comprising a stand having two parallel side rods with a handlebar and a crossbar respectively connecting the upper and lower ends of the side rods. A plurality of front wheels support the stand at the bottom and a pair of rear wheels are connected to the stand by a support shaft and an adjustable brace. The adjustable brace comprises a tube portion with a spring disposed therein and a leg portion partially received within the tube portion and abuttingly compressing the spring. An adjustable locking device secures the two portions of the brace in various positions. The trolley is adapted to securingly support a ground preparation or compacting tool or the like.

Abstract: A power assisted hand truck is disclosed. The hand truck includes a generally vertically extending rack pivotably mounted on a pair of laterally disposed front wheels and having a load bearing member extending from the front side thereof. A frame is connected to the front wheels and extends rearwardly with respect to the rack. The length of the frame in the rearward direction is adjustable, and the frame includes rear wheels on the underside thereof spaced from the front wheels. A bottom actuator is fixed to the frame and mounted so as to control the length thereof. A top actuator extends from the frame to the rack. The bottom and top actuators are operated to project the lower end of the rack forwardly and tilt the rack backwardly to lift a load resting on the load bearing member for transportation with the hand truck. The actuators are operated in reverse to lower the load.

Abstract: A towing hitch having an arm arrangement including a first arm mounted on a vehicle, such as a lawn mower, to be towed and a second arm connected to the first arm and attachable to a towing tractor. Biasing the second arm toward the vehicle being towed is a resilient arrangement which causes the towing tractor and vehicle being towed to travel in parallel, but offset, paths, while a bumper assembly provided on the arm arrangement contacts obstructions, such as trees, in the path of travel of the vehicle being towed so as to change the angular relationship of the first arm and second arm against the bias of the resilient arrangement and route the vehicle being towed around the obstruction.

Abstract: A rigid side extension draft bar locates to one side of a propelled implement the hitch for a tongue of a pulled implement. Preferably, the pulled implement has caster wheels. Pivots located at the ends of the tongue permit the pulled implement and the propelled implement to travel over different contours at different levels but maintain the fore-to-aft axes of the implements in the same direction so that they turn and back as a unit and maintain the amount of overlap of their paths uniform.

Abstract: An auxiliary wheel assembly mounted on a selected portion of a wheelbarrow including a wheel adapted to be pivoted forwardly and secured in elevated condition when out of operative position, said wheel adapted to be pivoted rearwardly and support the rear portion of said wheelbarrow in operative position, and means to secure said wheel in elevated condition in a rearward position.

Abstract: To provide an economical and practical material hauling apparatus for use with a garden tractor or the like, a wheelbarrow has its leg structure supported on a dolly which is towed by the tractor through the usual drawbar means. The dolly is provided with caster wheels. The wheelbarrow wheel is rearmost in the caravan and its handles extend forwardly. Vertical articulation between the wheelbarrow leg structure and the towing dolly is provided for.

Abstract: An improved cart capable of being readily collapsed for storage and having front wheel means and a pair of spaced stair-climbing assemblies for moving the cart over a surface and for allowing the cart to move up or down a flight of stairs. The cart has a normally inclined main frame to which one or more open top wire baskets can be coupled by hooks thereon. Rear support structure for the main frame includes a pair of normally inclined, rearwardly extending rods pivotally mounted at their upper ends to the main frame and having articulated links to keep the main frame and the rods normally apart but which allow the rods to collapse and to move into positions near and extending along the main frame. The stair-climbing assemblies are pivotally mounted on the lower ends of the rods and respective links which normally hold the upper ends of the assemblies spaced from the rods yet permit the assemblies to collapse to positions extending along and adjacent to the rods.

Abstract: The main frame of a hand truck is formed with support members on its rear lower side portions which extend angularly upwardly from the bottom thereof. Each of the support members has rollers on the upper and lower ends thereof which provide a track for an endless belt. A pair of movable handles slidably mounted on the sides of the frames are respectively connected to belt grippers on the endless belts. To move a loaded hand truck up a step, the frame is tilted back such that the endless belts contact the corner of a step. By pulling up on the movable handles the operator lifts the truck up the step with a mechanical advantage of two.

Abstract: A wheeled carrier for hay or the like has a low bed that may be tilted from a horizontal transport position rearwardly for rear loading or forwardly for front loading, and has a draft tongue secured by a transverse pivot adjacent a front corner of the bed and swingable laterally about an upright pivot so that the carrier may be towed directly behind a tractor for transporting a load or offset from the tractor for front loading. The bed consists of a set of short front parallel rails and a set of long rear parallel rails; and longitudinal chain conveyor means for both sets of rails has a single drive shaft that extends through overlapping inner end portions of both sets and may be driven in either direction. The extremities of the conveyor means are on idler sprockets with no continuous cross shafts.

Abstract: A hand truck having a wheel supported chassis provided with wheel shafts at the front end and the rear end thereof, an article carrier frame being pivotally secured to the said front end of the chassis so as to be swingable between an upright charging position and a rearwardly inclined transport position, and means being provided for supporting the carrier frame in this position relatively to the chassis, characterized in that the chassis is made in such a manner that the rear wheel shaft is movable towards and away from the front wheel shaft, and between the carrier frame and the rear wheel shaft to be moved rearwardly in response to the carrier frame being tilted rearwardly from its upright position.

Abstract: A longitudinal frame has a conventional fifth wheel on its forward end and this end of the frame is supported on caster wheels. The rearward end of the frame has a depending portion provided with hitches on each side for connection to two hitch points on the front of a towing vehicle to form a longitudinally rigid extension of the towing vehicle. With this arrangement the operator faces the dolly. The hitches on the dolly are vertically adjustable to provide easy connection to the towing vehicle and to accommodate various ground conditions during connection. The fifth wheel assembly of the dolly is supported on an auxiliary longitudinally extending frame pivotally connected at a rearward point on the main frame, and an air lift bag assembly is provided between the auxiliary frame and the main frame for raising and lowering the fifth wheel assembly. A vertically adjustable pony wheel is provided at the rear of the main frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for turning a compost silo has a portal frame adapted to travel along the ground in a travel direction and a pair of side portions spaced sufficiently apart transverse to the direction to straddle the silo. A pair of oppositely handed augers extending transverse to the travel direction between the side portions are rotatable to turn the silo. At each end this double auger is connected to the output of a respective angle drive having an input directed forwardly and connectable via a rod to the power takeoff of a tractor in front of and to one side of the frame relative to the travel direction. A tow bar has a rear end pivoted on the frame midway between the side portions and a front end connectable to the hitch of the tractor. Thus, this apparatus may follow the tractor to either side of the tractor.