Refuse carrier

Claim 1

A refuse carrier comprised of a chassis and at least one wheel on which said chassis is mounted, said chassis having opposed sidewall portions, rearwardly-disposed handle means for manipulating said carrier, and readily and substantially nonobstructively disengageable means for temporarily maintaining lateral spacing between said sidewall portions and permitting, upon disengagement of said spacing means, movement of said sidewall portions laterally with respect to one another, said spacing means at least in part defining a front wall portion of said chassis which extends, in the normal transport position of said carrier, generally upwardly from adjacent said wheel and terminates in a relatively thin forward edge, and said sidewall and front wall portions cooperatively defining a normally upwardly opening cavity within said chassis, said chassis being pivotable in a vertical plane about the axis of said wheel from a normal transport position of said carrier to a forwardly-tipped position in which said chassis rests upon said forward edge and said wheel, and the opening of the cavity thereof is generally forwardly disposed, said chassis and said wheel being so dimensioned and disposed, relative to one another, that the center of gravity of said chassis is located rearwardly of said forward edge in the forwardly-tipped position of said carrier, to afford stable resting on said edge.