Patent Application
20180015939
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The disclosure and prior art relates to hand truck devices and more particularly pertains to a new hand truck device for retaining an object on a hand truck.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a hand truck has a plate and a pair of rails. The rails are spaced apart from each other. The plate may have an object placed thereon thereby facilitating the hand truck to transport the object. A clamping unit is movably coupled to the hand truck. The clamping unit may secure to object on the hand truck. Thus, the object is inhibited from falling off of the hand truck during transportation.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A clamping unit 20 is provided. The clamping unit 20 is movably coupled to the hand truck 12. The clamping unit 20 may secure the object 18 on the hand truck 12. Thus, the object 18 is inhibited from falling off of the hand truck 12 during transportation.
The clamping unit 20 comprises a panel 22 that has a bottom surface 24, a back edge 26, a first lateral edge 28 and a second lateral edge 30. A rubber coating 32 is positioned on the panel 22. Moreover, the rubber coating 32 completely encompasses the panel 22. Thus, the rubber coating 32 enhances frictionally engaging the object 18.
A pair of sleeves 34 is provided and each of the sleeves 34 is coupled to the panel 22. Each of the sleeves 34 is positioned on the back edge 26 of the panel 22. Each of the sleeves 34 is aligned with an intersecting of an associated one of the first lateral edge 28 and the second lateral edge 30. Each of the sleeves 34 has a cut 36 to define a first half 38 and a second half 40 of each of the sleeves 34. The first half 38 corresponding to each of the sleeves 34 is coupled to the panel 22. The second half 40 corresponding to each of the sleeves 34 is hingedly coupled to the first half 38 of the corresponding sleeve 34.
Each of the sleeves 34 has an inner surface 42. Each of the sleeves 34 is selectively closed around an associated one of the rails 16 of the hand truck 12. Thus, the panel 22 is slidably coupled to the rails 16. The panel 22 is positioned to compress the object 18 between the panel 22 and the plate 14. Thus, the panel 22 may retain the object 18 on the hand truck 12. A rubber coating 44 is positioned on the inner surface 42 of each of the sleeves 34. Thus, the rubber coating 44 enhances frictionally engaging the associated rail 16.
A pair of screws 46 is provided. Each of the screws 46 is hingedly coupled to an associated one of the sleeves 34. Thus, each of the screws 46 may be manipulated. Each of the screws 46 is positioned on the second half 40 of the corresponding sleeve 34.
A pair of saddles 48 is provided. Each of the saddles 48 is coupled to an associated one of the sleeves 34. Moreover, each of the saddles 48 is positioned on the first half 38 of the corresponding sleeve 34. The screw 46 on the corresponding sleeve 34 theadably engages the saddle 48 on the corresponding sleeve 34. Thus, each of the sleeves 34 may compressed around the rails 16 such that the plate 14 is retained a selected distance from the plate 14.
In use, the object 18 is placed on the plate 22 of the hand truck 12. The panel 22 is manipulated such that the bottom surface 24 of the panel 22 abuts the object 18. The screws 46 on each of the sleeves 34 are manipulated to tighten the sleeves 34 around the rails 16. Thus, the panel 22 inhibits the object 18 from tipping off of the hand truck 12 during transportation. Each of the screws 46 is selectively removed from the corresponding saddle 48. Thus, each of the sleeves 34 is selectively removed from the associated rail 16 thereby facilitating the clamping unit 20 to be selectively removed from the hand truck 12.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
