This application claims priority to German Patent Application No. 10 2016 102 496.1, filed Feb. 12, 2016, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The application relates to a two-wheeled, hand-guided transport cart having the structures and features recited herein.
A variety of such transport carts are sold commercially, specifically in the form of rigid transport carts, so-called luggage carts, and also in the form of folding transport carts. The latter are suitable in particular for private use, because in many embodiments the wheels, the cargo blade, and the bow, which is used as a pushing element, are collapsible, so that they can be stowed without problems in the trunk of a motor vehicle. Transport carts are also known, for example, from DE 20 2009 010 767 U1, the platform of which is provided with securing straps for fixing the transport goods.
The known transport carts are suitable for the transport of blocky or cubic transport goods, for example, filled crates, cardboard boxes, and the like, which are stackable. However, above all two-wheeled, hand-guided transport carts, on which commercially-available carrying bags filled with products can be fastened without problems using the carrying handles or carrying straps thereof and can be securely conveyed, are lacking.
These problems are also known from DE 20 2013 003 854 U1. To solve these problems, a specially designed carrying bag set for use in shopping carts is proposed in this publication.
However, a transport cart suitable for the transport of commercially-available carrying bags or pouches is lacking. Such dimensionally unstable carrying bags having handles are offered for sale in a large number, in various sizes, and consisting of greatly differing materials and are eagerly used by customers.
These flexible carrying bags are foldable and adapt themselves substantially to the filled transport goods by shape change.
However, it is problematic to convey such a carrying bag filled with cargo, in particular food, and in particular multiple carrying bags using a conventional two-wheeled transport cart. On the one hand, it is difficult to transport a carrying bag filled to the brim with cargo, which can be placed on the cargo blade of the transport cart, since the bag can fall off of the blade with even the slightest movement, because the bag contents are necessarily not stable in location and the thin-walled bag yields and deforms in all directions.
Such a variably-shaped bag may also only be fixed poorly using belts or straps, because the fastening means either slips off of the smooth and usually bulky bag or damages the frequently pressure-sensitive transport goods, for example, food.
It is still more difficult or even impossible to place a second fully filled carrying bag onto the first carrying bag located on the cargo blade. On the one hand, the second carrying bag does not have a solid hold on the first. On the other hand, it cannot be avoided that the transport goods located in the first carrying bag, for example, pressure-sensitive food, will be damaged.
The present application is thus based on the object of providing a two-wheeled, hand-guided transport cart of the type known from DE 197 13 33 U, using which carrying bags filled with products can be conveyed without difficulty and without the mentioned disadvantages.
The present application provides a transport cart having the features and structures disclosed herein.
Advantageous embodiments of the holding elements are further disclosed herein.
Advantageous refinement of the transport cart are also further disclosed herein.
A modification of the transport cart is further disclosed herein.
The subject matter of the present application is explained in detail hereafter on the basis of various exemplary embodiments. In the figures:
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Five horizontal transverse struts 5-9, which are designed as round pipes and are welded to the legs 4, 4′ of the bow 3, which are also designed as round pipes, are arranged in levels at approximately equal distances from one another between the legs 4, 4′ of the bow 3. The lower round pipe 5 is connected to the metal plate 1 via two round pipes 10, 10′, which are used for stiffening. Instead of round pipes, square pipes or solid profiles which are round or polygonal in cross section, for example, made of aluminum or hardwood, can also be used.
The round pipes 5-9 each carry five rounded, round-cylindrical metal pins adjacent to one another, i.e., a total of 25 equivalent pins which are used as holding elements as defined in the present disclosure. The metal pins, as illustrated in
Instead of metal pins, inclined, closed bows 47, 48 or hooks 46 pointing downward can also be provided, as shown in
According to
The use of the transport cart 40 according to the present disclosure is illustrated in
The loading of the transport cart is performed as follows.
The transport cart 40 is first pushed in the vertical position against the first carrying bag 38, which is standing on the floor. The user then pulls the closest handle 36 of the carrying bag as tautly as possible upward, to then slip it over the two pins 17 and 19, which are located at a greater distance. The second handle 37 is then pulled tautly upward, to also slip it over the pins 17 and 19.
If the carrying bag 38 is filled excessively full, it could be difficult to hang the handle 37 over the pins 17 and 19. In this case, the handle 37 can be suspended in the middle pin 18.
The large number of the pins 11-35 enables the use of differently designed carrying bags, the handle size and/or handle length of which can vary depending on the producer.
Because the pins 11-35 are inclined to the rear, the handles 36 and 37 also cannot slide off, so that the bags always remain connected to the cart.
Lateral swinging of the suspended carrying bags 38, 39 is prevented in that at least one of the two handles 36 is slipped over the pins 17 and 19 or 32 and 34, which are located at a greater distance, and therefore the carrying bags are laterally fixed.
After the first carrying bag 38 is suspended, the second carrying bag 39 can be suspended in a similar manner using the handles 36, 37 thereof in the pins 32, 33, 34 provided on the upper round pipe 9, so that it does not rest on the lower carrying bag 38, so that the transport goods packed therein are not crushed.
Another advantageous use of the transport cart according to the present disclosure is illustrated in
An empty carrying bag 43 can accordingly be suspended on the transport cart 40 in a particularly simple manner. The one handle 44 of the carrying bag 43 can thus be suspended, for example, in the pins 11 and 15, which are located far apart from one another, so that the empty carrying bag 45 presses entirely against the front side of the transport cart 40 and cannot swing to the side. The second handle 45 is at least not yet suspended in this case, so that the carrying bag 43 remains bulging open.
The user can travel with a transport cart equipped, for example, with two open carrying bags to shop in a business, for example, a market hall, and can place products taken from the shelves into the still open bags. If the carrying bag 43 has been filled with products, the still free handle 45 is suspended either on the central pin 13 or the lateral pins 12 and 14.
Finally, holding elements designed differently are shown in
Instead of the round pipes 5 to 9 having welded-on pins 11 to 35 pointing upward, plates 41 welded in between the vertical struts 4, 4′ can be provided as the horizontal transverse struts, which have one-piece tongues 42 instead of the metal pins. These tongues 42, as shown in
Carrying bags can also be suspended by the handles thereof in this embodiment in the same manner as described on the basis of
Since transport carts are frequently too bulky for conveyance in a passenger automobile, the legs 4, 4′ of the pushing element can be formed in two parts, as shown in
In this case, the divided legs 4, 4′ either have a plug connection 50 or a joint 51, using which the leg parts can be divided or folded over for the purpose of transport.
Finally, another variant of the transport cart 40′ is shown in
As may be seen in
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10 2016 102 496.1 | Feb 2016 | DE | national |