Foldable tow-wheel dolly

Claim 1

A wheeled dolly comprising in combination a substantially rectangular frame, a pair of operating members, one on each side of said frame and being pivotally supported on the longitudinal edges of said frame and having a pivot axis parallel to said longitudinal edges, a handle on the upper end of each operating member extending at an angle therefrom, a wheel assembly mounted for rotation on the lower end of each operating member, said wheel assembly including a wheel fork and a wheel journalled therein, a load plate pivoted by the rear edge thereof to adjacent the lower side of said frame, and means to raise and lower said load plate from the operating position to the stored position and vice versa, said means incorporating further means engageable with said wheel forks when in the operating position to lock said plate in said operating position and said wheels also in said operating position, said handles being adapted to be turned from an operating position extending substantially at right angles to said frame to a stored position inwardly of said frame and substantially in the same plane thereof, said wheels also being turned by said handles from an operating position substantially at right angles to said frame to a stored position inwardly of said frame and substantially in the same plane thereof, said means to raise and lower said load plate including a crank bar journalled transversely of said frame and a link pivotally connecting between said crank bar and adjacent the rear edge of said load plate.