Baseball equipment storage and transporting cart

Claim 1

A cart adapted for the storage and transportation of baseball equipment comprising, in combination, a housing having a horizontal bottom surface, a vertical back wall surface, and a pair of opposed vertical side wall surfaces, said surfaces defining therebetween a compartment open at the front side and top side thereof; a top panel member having one edge hingedly connected to the top edge of said back wall surface with said top panel member being of a size and configuration to completely close said top end of said housing; a front panel member hinged along its top edge to a front edge of said top panel member with said front panel member being of a size and configuration adapted to completely close said front end of said compartment; lock means adapted to lock said front and top panel members in the closed position; a pair of wheels with each wheel disposed adjacent an associated side wall member and journaled by a suitable shaft thereto for rotation about said shaft in a plane substantially normal to the plane of the side wall members; a pair of vertically spaced apart handles mounted to said back surface, one handle mounted adjacent the top edge of said back surface with the second handle mounted adjacent the bottom edge of said back surface; means disposed inwardly of said compartment and adapted for retaining a multiplicity of baseball equipment items in a storage manner therein while providing ease of accessibility to such items, said means disposed inwardly of said compartment comprises a plurality of horizontally disposed spaced apart transversely projecting boss members each having one end affixed to an interior surface of an associated side wall member and projecting outwardly therefrom in a direction inwardly of said compartment and with each row of boss members disposed adjacent the top edge of said associated side wall member, said boss members defining slots therebetween of a width adapted to receive the handle portions of baseball bats therebetween to hangingly suspend such baseball bats in a vertical manner adjacent the interior surface of said associated side wall member, a pair of transversely spaced apart vertically extending partitions each having their bottom edge secured to the bottom surface of said housing and projecting upwardly therefrom, a first horizontally extending shelf interconnecting the approximate midpoints of said vertical partitions, a pair of second shelves each interconnecting the top edge of each vertical partition to adjacent points of associated adjacent side wall members, said first shelf defining with said partitions and said bottom surface a first compartment of a size and configuration adapted to receive baseballs therein, said second shelves forming with said associated partitions and associated side wall members and associated bottom surface a pair of transversely spaced apart compartments adapted to carry assorted baseball necessities therein.