Body With Bracketed-type Or Nonsuspended Axles (e.g., Platform Type) Patents (Class 280/79.11)
  • Publication number: 20130277932
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a portable medical instrument system. The system includes a frame for supporting system process and user interface components. One or more support rails are interconnected with the frame to provide an accessories support system to securely receive medical accessory components. In at least one embodiment, the support rails have a configuration substantially matching a bedrail of a hospital bed. In another aspect, the support rails have a height to width ratio of about 2 to 1. In still a further aspect, the support rails have a height to width ration of 1 to 0.375. According to yet another aspect, at least one of the support rails may be molded from portions of the portable medical system itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Volcano Corporation
    Inventor: Volcano Corporation
  • Patent number: 8550477
    Abstract: A spa cart system includes a wheeled cart with multiple shelves for carrying spa products and fully-functional equipment for providing spa services in a client's room or designated hotel site, such as a full body massage, manicure, pedicure, and many more. Selectable transportable modules include products and equipment to support a variety of diverse spa activities, such as carrying necessary equipment, including electrically-powered equipment and a massage table and positioning same for use, supporting portability such as a cart width that fits through typical narrow hotel and resort doors, allowing adjustable movement of the equipment to use locations, providing a well-organized physical station supporting the various services (e.g., a manicure treatment station), and providing modules selectable by the technician to satisfy various spa activities pre-selected by a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Inventors: Vickie Bennett, Victor Bennett
  • Patent number: 8544859
    Abstract: A dolly has a frame with a pair of risers connected thereto. Connecting bolts extend partially through the risers and through the frame to connect the risers and casters to the frame. The risers have an outer riser body with a core disposed therein. The outer riser body may be a thermoplastic injection molded riser body that is molded around a riser core which may be a metal riser plate core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sela Products, LLC
    Inventors: Nihat Itmec, A. Rifat Kars, Douglas Donald
  • Patent number: 8540255
    Abstract: A trolley for carrying cleaning materials includes a main trolley structure having a front end, a rear end, and a pair of sides, front wheels at the front end, back wheels at the rear end, a housing, and a handle structure at the rear end for guiding the main trolley structure over a floor on the wheels. The handle structure is moveable from a stowed condition to an operating condition for guiding the trolley. A bucket structure includes a container for containing cleaning liquid and at least three wheels for stables moveable over the floor independently of the trolley. The housing has a space into which at least a part of the bucket structure may be wheeled from the front end or a side of the pair of sides, such that the bucket structure is substantially within the housing when the bucket structure is received by the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Inventor: Ronald Alexander (Scot) Young
  • Patent number: 8540253
    Abstract: An industrial truck comprising a pair of wheel arms, which at their free end in each case comprise a wheel arm end, each of which comprising a bearing body and a pair of load wheels, the load wheels in each case being rotatably mounted on a rocker, and the rocker being pivotably mounted on the bearing body in a region located between the load wheels, the bearing body comprising a bearing projection on which the rocker is mounted such that the rocker laterally defines the wheel arm end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olaf Rath, Oliver Göpner, Matthias Röder
  • Patent number: 8528919
    Abstract: A stable extendable apparatus is provided which includes top, bottom, front and rear structures coupled together. The top and bottom structures each include at least one extendable member which defines a minimum length in a longitudinal retracted position and a maximum length in a longitudinal extended position. The front and rear structures each includes a first side support, a second side support, and an extendable cross-support to couple the first and second side supports together. Extension or retraction of the extendable cross-support changes an angle of orientation of the first side support relative to the second side support. The first rear side support, the second rear side support, and the extendable rear cross-support correspond to positions of the respective front supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Rustin Webster, Jeremy T. Clark, Ryan Manning
  • Patent number: 8523204
    Abstract: A structure of connectable skateboard includes a skateboard body that carries casters. The skateboard body has a front end forming a plurality of connection lugs and a rear end forming a plurality of mating slots at locations corresponding to the connection lugs, whereby with the inter-engagement between the connection lugs and the corresponding mating slots, multiple skateboard bodies can be inter-connected to each other to form a connected skateboard assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Chia-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 8517397
    Abstract: A foldable dolly for use with a truss. The dolly is also extendable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Gross
  • Patent number: 8511693
    Abstract: A mobile base that attaches to the stand of a table saw is disclosed. The mobile base includes wheels and casters that rotate down and lift the saw when a foot pedal is depressed. The mobile base raises the saw asymmetrically to provide clearance for the legs of an extension table attached to the table of the saw. A locking mechanism locks the wheels and casters so that they do not retract while the saw is moved, and a foot-operated lever releases the wheels and casters so that they may retract and lower the saw back to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: SD3, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen F. Gass, James F. W. Wright
  • Publication number: 20130200660
    Abstract: The present invention provides a workstation that may be used while performing various tasks, such as working at a computer. The workstation includes a table (2), a waist rest (3), a foot rest (4); a left arm rest and a right arm rest (7). The workstation allows the user to redistribute his body weight from the legs and feet the waist rest, foot rest; and arm rests while in a standing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventor: Roy Bahnof
  • Patent number: 8496257
    Abstract: Knee walker assemblies and methods of manufacturing a knee walker assembly are provided herein. One concept of the present disclosure is directed to a knee walker assembly that includes a frame, a support platform and a handle mounted to the frame, at least one rear wheel mounted proximate the rear end of the frame, and at least two front wheels swivel mounted proximate the front end of the frame. A locking mechanism is operatively engaged with the at least two front wheels. The locking mechanism is configured to substantially simultaneously lock both of the at least two front wheels in a rigid-type mounting configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda M. Walther, Ethan S. Abernathey, Ishwor P. Adhikari, John H. Kutsch, Vincent R. Lackowski
  • Publication number: 20130187352
    Abstract: A dolly includes a base having a pair of spaced apart side walls and an end wall connecting the side walls. Casters supporting the side walls and end wall. In one embodiment, a spreader bar assembly is pivotably connected to the dolly to permit a user to selectively connect the dolly to another dolly, such that a pallet could be supported at each end by one of the dollies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Rehrig Pacific Company
  • Patent number: 8490993
    Abstract: A self-tracking cart is provided and includes a body defining an enclosure into and from which a secondary cart is receivable and removable, selectively rotatable first and second hitch assemblies, first and second motive elements, first and second steering assemblies to turn the first and second motive elements in opposite directions responsive to rotations of the first and second hitch assemblies and a linkage, which is coupled to the first and second hitch assemblies to cause the first and second hitch assemblies to rotate jointly in opposing directions, the linkage being disposed for non-interference with the secondary cart during reception and removal thereof into and from the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Serge Benoit
  • Patent number: 8474834
    Abstract: A voter cart capable of supporting a voting terminal in a portable, fully usable, and secure configuration. The cart is generally formed with a pair of opposing side rails joined together in a spaced-apart configuration and mounted on casters, and a voting terminal housing interspaced between the side rails. The voting terminal is seated atop a bottom shelf of the voting terminal housing at waist-level for easy wheelchair voter access thereto. The voting terminal is restrained against lateral and vertical motion, and yet there is full access to the voting terminal's control panels, doors, etc. Moreover, the particular design maximizes strength and usability, and yet keeps weight to a minimum with a framework that is as light weight as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Inventors: Gary V. Abel, Joseph Wilson
  • Patent number: 8474835
    Abstract: A mobile support cart has one or more extendable and foldable arms to position one or more monitors or devices mounted to the extendable arm. The arm is mounted to a vertical column that is supported by a linear rail system providing vertical guidance. An adjustable counterweight carriage rides on a second rail set and is connected to each column through a chain and pulley. Each chain and pulley is fully redundant with two chains attached to discrete mounting points on each counterweight carriage and to each column. The amount of counterweight applied can be adjusted within a given load range by adding additional plates/ballast to the counterweight carriage. When the load on the arm(s) are fully offset by ballast on the counter weight carriage the arms and payloads reach a “neutral buoyancy” condition. The system maintains the position once an operator has released them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Inventor: Remo J. Rossi
  • Publication number: 20130154217
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device for moving objects is provided that includes a carriage having a first planer bearing member coupled to a second planer bearing member therewith forming a recess, each of the bearing members having a plurality of holes therein opposite an intersection of the bearing members; at least one wheel coupled to the carriage member, the wheel having an axis parallel with the intersection of the bearing members; and a first and a second strap having ends removably attachable to each other, each of the straps passing through one of the bearing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventor: Victor D. Dobyns
  • Publication number: 20130154216
    Abstract: A shelving mobilization assembly comprises a support adjustably retained within a channel formed in a pair of castor assemblies, the pair of castor assemblies each include an integrally formed U-shaped cross section between a plurality of castors. The support fits in the channel, and each end of the support and each of the pair of castor assemblies incorporate an interlocking tab and slots arranged such that the interlocking tab engages one of the slots, when the support fits in the channel of each of the pair of castor assemblies. The interlocking tab and corresponding slot adjustably retains the support in the channels of each of the pair of castor assemblies, such that the length between the pair of castor assemblies is defined at a fixed length, when the shelving is supported by the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Mobex of North Florida, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Paulk, SR., William Thompson, Troy Thompson
  • Publication number: 20130154218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dolly for transporting objects and a frame assembly for said dolly. The dolly includes an engagement member made of formable material and having an engaging side shaped for receiving carriers and a back side opposite to the engaging side, a load-bearing frame, to which a plurality of wheels are mounted, and an abutment between the frame and the engagement member for fastening the engagement member to the frame, whereby a single type of load-bearing frame is applicable to a variety of engagement members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: K. HARTWALL OY AB
    Inventor: Markku Tiilikainen
  • Patent number: 8439375
    Abstract: A new dolly can be used for making either a vacuum cleaner supported by casters or one supported by wheels. Casters can be mounted in sockets in bosses near the dolly perimeter. Alternatively, axle mounts can be fitted over the bosses. Upright walls on the mounts engage corresponding walls on the underside of the dolly, forming spaced supports. An accessory component with molded upright walls is mounted onto the dolly, and its walls engage corresponding walls under the dolly. One fastener seats against one fastener surface on the accessory component, and extends into a hole in that fastener surface, an aligned opening in the corresponding axle mount, and into the dolly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Shop Vac Corporation
    Inventor: David Martinez
  • Publication number: 20130082450
    Abstract: A collimator exchanging cart for exchanging a collimator in a detector is provided. The cart, being loaded with two collimators at one time, comprises a frame including a rotation mechanism, wherein the rotation mechanism is configured to enable the cart to be rotated at least 180 degrees. The cart further comprises two collimator receivers, two collimator fixing and releasing mechanisms, two cart positioning mechanisms, and two cart releasing mechanisms, wherein each of the two cart releasing mechanisms is used for releasing the cart individually, and is associated with a corresponding cart positioning mechanism. Each of the two collimator receivers, the two collimator fixing and releasing mechanisms, the two cart positioning mechanisms, and the two cart releasing mechanisms are symmetric about a plane of symmetry, wherein the plane of symmetry is perpendicular to the ground and situated at the middle of the frame between two sides of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventor: GENERAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECH
  • Patent number: 8408564
    Abstract: A refuse and recycling cart assembly includes a U-shaped lower frame to hold a plurality of refuse or yard waste containers with easy turn lockable wheels to provide for maneuvering the cart in tight places, stopping or storing the cart on inclined and slippery surfaces or immobilizing the cart during loading or unloading. A U-shaped upper frame with a low to the ground wide rear opening provides for easy loading of containers into the cart with little lifting required. A U-shaped rear vertical support frame has a removable upper frame to give even more clearance for loading containers into the cart with little lifting. The top of the upper rear vertical support frame is bent to provide a handle with a user gripping strip placed on the handle. Upper and lower U-shaped horizontal supports are cantilevered from the upper vertical support frame to support a pair of recycling bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Inventor: Jenny Elizabeth Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 8403344
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dolly (10) having a deck (12) including a plurality of rotatable members (14) secured thereto to support the deck (12) relative to a support surface (16) and enable the dolly (10) to move on the support surface (16). Each rotatable member (14) has a skirt element (24) located adjacent thereto. The or each skirt element (24) is movable relative to the deck (12) between a first position in which each rotatable member (14) is exposed beyond the adjacent skirt element (24) to a first extent and a second position in which each rotatable member (14) is exposed beyond the adjacent skirt element (24) to a second extent. The second extent is less than the first extent. Movement of the or each skirt element (24) between the first and second positions selectively engages a brake (50) to inhibit movement of the dolly (10) relative to the support surface (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: DS Smith Plastics Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Carver, Peter Maple
  • Publication number: 20130069328
    Abstract: A caster assembly for a frame is described that permits a frame to be easily moved and placed. The caster assembly, which may lift a leg of the frame, can be placed or removed without picking up the frame. The caster assembly further includes a handle that moves a cam for engaging the caster assembly with the leg. A frame having at least one caster assembly is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Randal Hetrick, Tae Kim, Christine Marcelino, Stephanie Russo
  • Patent number: 8376376
    Abstract: The invention is a wheeled platform adapted to accommodate at least one five gallon bucket surrounded by a plurality of storage compartments for use by a tradesman such as a drywall installer, tile installer, auto detailer, and the like. The wheeled platform includes a rigid base, having a lower and an upper surface structurally interconnected by a plurality of structural ribs and flanges. The flanges extend upward from the upper surface of the base to define a plurality of compartments which are intended to be used to store materials and tools used by the tradesman in the performance of their work. The platform base and flange arrangement define at least one cylindrical compartment for receiving a five gallon bucket. Four caster wheels are appropriately attached to the lower surface of the base so that the platform can be wheeled from a service vehicle to a specific job site having stored therein, the tradesman's tools, as well as necessary material supplies to perform daily job functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventor: Richard R. Thibault
  • Patent number: 8356783
    Abstract: A retractable stop assembly rigidly attached to an underside of a cart for sheet material. The retractable stop assembly includes a base plate member adapted for rigid attachment to an underside of a cart adjacent an edge thereof. A mounting bracket unit is rotatably attached to the base plate member opposite the underside of the cart by a threaded fastener. The mounting bracket unit includes a cylindrical sleeve member rigidly secured thereto with the cylindrical sleeve member's central axis parallel with the base plate member. An L-shaped stop member has first and second leg sections. The first leg section is movably positioned within the cylindrical sleeve member, and the second leg section is movable to extend above the edge of the cart. Rotation of the threaded fastener member in a selected direction rigidly clamps the L-shaped stop member in a selected orientation within the cylindrical sleeve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Inventors: Greg Gilbertson, Jeremy Abbott
  • Publication number: 20130018526
    Abstract: A Guided Soft Target (GST) system and method provides a versatile test system and methodology for the evaluation of various crash avoidance technologies. This system and method can be used to replicate the pre-crash motions of the CP in a wide variety of crash scenarios while minimizing physical risk, all while consistently providing a sensor signature substantially identical to that of the item being simulated. The GST system in various example embodiments may comprise a soft target vehicle or pedestrian form removably attached to a programmable, autonomously guided, self-propelled Dynamic Motion Element (DME), which may be operated in connection with a wireless computer network. Specific geometries for the DME have been discovered that minimize the risk of the DME flipping up and hitting or otherwise damaging or disrupting the ride of typical test vehicles during impact of the test vehicles with the GST, all while minimizing the effect of the DME on the sensor signature of the GST.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: DYNAMIC RESEARCH INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Kelly, Peter Broen, Jordan Silberling, Nenad Bozin, John Zellner
  • Patent number: 8348287
    Abstract: A slab cart for sheet material which comprises a dolly component. A shelf component receives the sheet material. A mechanism is for coupling the shelf component to the dolly component in a pivotable manner, so that the shelf component will go from a horizontal position to a vertical position. When the shelf component is in the horizontal position the sheet material will be manually slid off of the shelf component onto a support table and be manually slid from the support table onto the shelf component. When the shelf component with the sheet material is in the vertical position, the sheet material will be held on edge to the shelf component and be transported by the dolly component through the confines of narrow places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventor: Phillip J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8342544
    Abstract: An adjustable cart, comprising in combination a base supported by wheels at least one of which is swiveled to allow cart steering travel, two frames carried by the base to pivot from active upright positions to stored down positions, one above the other, there being upright supports carried by the cart at or proximate cart corners, there being mechanism associated with the frame and certain of the supports to releasably lock the frames in upright extended positions relative to the supports in response to frame pivoting to upright positions, and there being lengthwise adjustable means, associated with each frame, whereby said mechanism is un-blocked to allow frame folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventors: Patrick Blewett, Brent Foes
  • Patent number: 8317204
    Abstract: A dolly according includes a deck and a plurality of casters extending downward below the deck. A connector is pivotably connected to the deck and is selectively pivotable between a retracted position and a connecting position. The deck also includes a receiver for receiving the connector of a similar dolly adjacent thereto to connect the dolly to the similar dolly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Ryan C. Meers, Kyle L. Baltz
  • Patent number: 8302975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transport system (1) comprising a trolley (5) and a goods carrier (100), which can be detachably connected to each other via a coupling (65, 154). A remarkable characteristic of the transport system (1) is a platform (11), which extends over all parts (5, 100) of the transport system (1) and coincides with a platform (13) of the trolley (5) so that as a result both a delimiting connecting member (15) is provided between individual parts (67, 69) of the trolley (5) and also individual goods can be disposed on the goods carrier (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Willibald Hergeth
  • Publication number: 20120267869
    Abstract: A dolly includes a platform for supporting items thereon. The platform includes a first edge having a plurality of complementary projections and recesses, such that the platform can be selectively connected to a first edge of a platform of an identical dolly. A plurality of wheels support the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventor: Jon P. Hassell
  • Patent number: 8292309
    Abstract: A supporting device includes a tray, a plurality of wheel assemblies, a handle, and a handgrip. The tray is configured for supporting a payload. The wheel assemblies are secured to the tray, and each wheel assembly includes a wheel. Each wheel is capable of rotating about a first axis. The wheel assemblies are rotatable between a first position and a second position, and a distance between each wheel and the tray in the first position is smaller than a distance between each wheel and the tray in the second position. The handle is attached to the tray and configured to urge the wheel assemblies to rotate from the first position to the second position. The handgrip is attached to the tray and configured to urge the wheel assemblies to rotate from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen-Lu Fan, Chih-Kun Shih, Chun-Hsien Lin
  • Publication number: 20120256385
    Abstract: The invention is a dolly that may assist a user in moving one or more cones from one location to another. The cone dolly is stackable when it is not in use and may contain handles. Users can utilize the wheels on the bottom of the dolly to push one or more cones from one location to another or utilize the handles within the body of the dolly to carry the dolly when it is not in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventor: John J. Pujol
  • Patent number: 8240685
    Abstract: A rolling device includes a frame, a rotatable member, a roller and an operating member. The frame is configured for being attached to a device enclosure. The rotatable member is secured to the frame and rotatable about a first axis relative to the frame. The roller is secured to the rotatable member and rotatable about a second axis parallel to the first axis. The operating member is secured to the rotatable member and rotatable about the second axis and capable of rotating the frame about the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen-Lu Fan
  • Patent number: 8240684
    Abstract: A medical ventilator cart, for use in hospitals or other medical settings, stores and transports various components of a ventilator system, such as a Breath Delivery Unit, a display monitor, and a compressor. First and second platforms are suspended above a base of the cart and allow the various ventilator cart components to be separately and independently placed on and removed from the cart without the need to move or rearrange any of the other ventilator components. One version of the cart provides an additional compressor platform attached to the base for mounting a compressor below the first platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Christopher G. Ross, Richard Calou, Colt Sander, Tony L. Lee, Christian J. Stefanovitz
  • Patent number: 8215662
    Abstract: A system for engagement and disengagement of carts to form a train of multiple carts. Each cart has a spring-loaded hitch that is held in a storage position when the carts are disengaged. A lever coupled to the hitch is operated to position the hitch for insertion into a receiver pocket of the next cart. A leading edge of the hitch deflects a spring-loaded lockpin. An angled guide member positions the hitch vertically within the pocket so that the lockpin comes into alignment with an aperture in the hitch. When aligned, the lockpin snaps into place and engages the aperture to lock the carts together. The close tolerance of the hitch within the pocket prevents transverse articulation of adjacent carts. Structures within the hitch and the pocket allow slight rotation in a longitudinal articulation axis about the lockpin and torsional articulation of the hitch within the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Pedigo Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal W. Koehler, Matthew John Carney
  • Publication number: 20120161703
    Abstract: A transport device for an electric vehicle charging device is provided. The transport module may include a platform having a through hole; a plurality of wheels coupled to a bottom surface of the platform; and a cable guide element coupled to the bottom surface of the platform beneath the though hole. When the transport module is coupled to the electric vehicle charging device, a service entrance cable extends from electric vehicle supply equipment of the electric vehicle charging device through the through hole and is supported and guided in the cable guide element. A portable electric vehicle charging device including the transport module may also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: PEPCO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Barbara M. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 8167322
    Abstract: A portable hand cart particularly suited for carrying a welding system is provided. The cart includes a bottom platform carried by a rectangular bottom frame; a back frame extending upward from the bottom frame and including an angled handle; a top platform carried by a rectangular top frame that is somewhat narrower than the bottom frame; a front frame extending upward from the front sides of the bottom frame; two front wheels; two back pneumatic wheels; a lower tank frame extending rearward from the back bottom frame and supporting a tank platform; and an upper tank cradle extending rearward from the back of the top frame. The cart is stable and balanced both in a shop and in the field when loaded with a welding system and with or without a compressed gas cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Inventor: Terry Greene
  • Patent number: 8162330
    Abstract: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Cart including a tool chest adapted to hold tools, a computer system for executing computer executable programs, a plurality of electrical devices, and a plurality of speakers; a computer system for executing computer executable programs including a monitor for viewing images, a computer hard drive for storing data and programs, a keyboard adapted to input information into the computer system, and a mouse adapted to provide a user interface with the computer system; a plurality of electrical devices adapted to provide reception and amplification of radio or television signals and further adapted to provide playback of media; and a plurality of speakers, the plurality of speakers adapted to provide audio output from the computer system and the plurality of electrical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventors: Ashot Melkumyan, Karapet Kozloyan
  • Publication number: 20120091676
    Abstract: A dolly consists of a generally planar platform having opposed front and rear ends and lateral sides. The wheels are configured to contact a surface so as to support the platform above the surface when the platform is placed on the surface. The platform is relatively low to the ground, and enables one operator to arrange and transport heavy loads with the dolly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventor: Julio Realegeno-Amaya
  • Publication number: 20120086180
    Abstract: A dolly for transporting and moving baskets or other commercial and industrial loads. The dolly body or platform is rectangular in shape with a flat, smooth top. It may be attached, latched or fastened to the underside of the basket, tray or load being transported or moved, fitting within a space or pocket on the underside of the basket or tray. The two longitudinal sides are thicker than the center, providing strength and support, while the thinner center allows the weight of the dolly to be reduced. The dolly has no edges, rim, wall or protrusions around its perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventor: Vegan Fakhoorian
  • Patent number: 8152178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a shopping bag with a detachable wheel chassis, comprising a bag body having bag handles and a receiving portion disposed on its bottom, and a two-wheel chassis detachably configured to bear and hold the bag body thereon. The chassis is made of a piece of resilient metal wire and has a configuration having a downwardly extended supporting portion, two oppositely and inwardly inserting portions adapted to be received in the receiving portion of the bag body, and two end portions on which the two wheels are rotatably mounted. The shopping bag of the invention is convenient to use, low in cost, simple in structure, and also finds a wide range of applications. The invention also provides a two-wheel chassis detachably configured to bear and hold an article having a relatively flat bottom and a receiving portion on the flat bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventors: Wai Lun Alan Sun, Bit Shing Victor Sun
  • Patent number: 8152181
    Abstract: A mobility frame (10) comprising: a multi-wheeled base (11), an upstanding support (13) having a substantially upright lower portion (17) attached to the base (11), an oblique portion (27) disposed at a height from the base (11), the oblique portion (27) extending obliquely upwardly from the lower portion (17), an upper portion (29) extending substantially upwardly from the oblique portion (27); and at least one handle (35) for steering the mobility frame (10) and/or for allowing a user to support them-self on the mobility frame (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: About Time Technologies Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Leslie Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 8141888
    Abstract: A surfboard transportation device for allowing a user to transport a surfboard comprising a first vertical support component connected to a second vertical support component via a first telescopic center support bar and a second telescopic center support bar. Attachment ropes can be attached to the first and second vertical support components to secure the surfboard in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventors: Chevalier Z. Levasa, Edward M. Levasa
  • Publication number: 20120049475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for the manual transport of objects/goods, preferably tables, beds and the like, which object comprises a flat-shaped part extending in the horizontal or vertical direction during use, wherein the transport of said objects takes place by means of a transport device comprising a platform (1), which at its bottom side is provided with at least three wheels (2) intended to enable movement/transport of the transport device with the platform (1) in a horizontal position, and which platform (1) at its upper side is provided with at least three supports (3, 4), and wherein the method implies that said object is turned, so that its flat-shaped part is positioned in a vertical position on the upper side of the platform (1) before the movement/transport, wherein, before the turning of the object is commenced, said supports (3, 4) are adapted in such a way that the platform (1) may be arranged at the object and thereafter turn said object 90°, wherein the platform (
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Peder Jensen
  • Publication number: 20120043732
    Abstract: A dolly has a frame with a pair of risers connected thereto. Connecting bolts extend partially through the risers and through the frame to connect the risers and casters to the frame. The risers have an outer riser body with a core disposed therein. The outer riser body may be a thermoplastic injection molded riser body that is molded around a riser core which may be a metal riser plate core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Nihat Itmec, A. Rifat Kars, Douglas Donald
  • Publication number: 20120040066
    Abstract: A conveyor oven is provided, which has an oven housing having a frame with a top wall and side walls downwardly dependent from the top wall, and a substantially open bottom portion of the frame. A heat source heats the baking chamber in excess of 7000 F. An endless conveyor is used for continuous transport of foodstuffs through the baking chamber. The oven uses access dollies to insulatingly cover the bottom of the oven below the conveyor. These dollies can be unsealed and slidably removed to access the baking chamber without turning off the heat source or cooling the oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: FGF BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Sam Ajmera, Tejus Ajmera, Dragan Janus, Peter Janus
  • Patent number: 8104779
    Abstract: A bearing includes an inner race member having an end surface. An outer race member is disposed about the inner race member. The outer race member has an internal shoulder for engaging the end surface of the inner race member. The inner and outer race members are configured to define a raceway between them and to define a snap ring seat between them. There are cylindrical rollers in the raceway and a snap ring in the snap ring seat. The bearing may be provided as a follower head on a cam follower or may be eccentrically mounted on a drive shaft to serve as a cam. A cargo dolly may include such a cam near a wheel, to help the wheel overcome an obstacle. A bearing can be assembled by inserting the inner race member into the outer race member, disposing cylindrical rollers in the raceway and disposing a snap ring in the snap ring seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick S. Gyuricsko, Jay W. Phoenix
  • Publication number: 20120018966
    Abstract: A dolly for moving objects is disclosed, having a rectangular platform with casters mounted underneath, having four posts which may be raised from the base and locked into an upright position. The posts further have crossbars pivotally mounted thereon, which are releasably connectable to the crossbars of adjacent posts, to form a supportive railing around the tops of the posts. The posts may further be connected by means of telescopic arms, which are pivotally connected to one crossbar, and extendible to another crossbar, wherein they may be releasably connected by means of a knob at the end of the telescopic arm being pressed into an inverted teardrop-shaped receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Todd E. A. Moore, Arthur Bounardjian, Miles Hammond, Kevin Balley
  • Publication number: 20120013093
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a modular container for a utility trailer comprising a bottom panel assembly; an upper panel assembly stackable on the bottom panel assembly, the upper panel assembly and the bottom panel assembly defining a cavity therein when the modular container is in a disassembled state; a plurality of panels being substantially containable within the cavity and being removably securable to the bottom panel assembly and the upper panel assembly when the modular container is in an assembled state to define a substantially enclosed volume; and the bottom panel assembly defining a pair of slots sized to engage a portion of the utility trailer and a pair of apertures larger than the pair of slots sized to engage a portion of a fork lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: A NOY DEVELOPMENT II, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. FRANK, Mark S. HERNANDEZ