Foldable packer

Claim 1

A foldable and portable load carrying packer vehicle, comprising an axle having a single wheel journaled thereto; a pair of modified U-shaped main frame members each having a closed end and a converging open end; hinge means for hingedly connecting said open ends of said U-shaped main frames to said axle and for hingedly interconnecting said open ends about an axis parallel to said axle, said closed end of each of said main frame members forming a handle, said hinge means permitting said main frame members to be superposed relative to each other into a folded position and said handles to be rotated in circular arc away from each other into a unfolded operative position; a transverse brace rigidly connected to the legs of each of said Ushaped main frame members adjacent and parallel to said axle; a load carrying platform of a generally rectangular configuration hingedly connected adjacent one edge portion thereof to one of said U-shaped main frame members and pivotable about an axis parallel to said axle with the opposite edge portion thereof adapted to rest on said transverse brace of the other U-shaped main frame member when said packer vehicle is in said operative unfoldeD position; locking means operatively interconnecting said U-shaped main frame members for maintaining said packer vehicle in said operative unfolded position.