The invention relates to a transporting device that can be moved by hand and stacked in stacks of identical devices, comprising a first carrying device and comprising a second carrying device arranged above the first carrying device, wherein the first carrying device, viewed from above, is designed to be wider than the second carrying device, wherein moreover the first carrying device has a first fixing means each arranged in the rear area of the carrying device and on both sides, and wherein a handle device for moving the transporting device is fixed to each first fixing means.
Transporting devices with a first and with a second carrying device are known by various sample embodiments, see for example the document DE 297 14 128 U1. In these transporting devices, a handle device in the form of a transversely situated push handle is common, wherein this handle device can be arranged either on the spars of the chassis or on the second, i.e., higher situated carrying device. A transporting device with three carrying devices is also described, for example, in DE 10 2009 042 287 A1.
The closest prior art also includes a transporting device that can be moved by hand and stacked in stacks of identical devices in the form of a shopping cart for self-service markets. The firm Wanzl GmbH in Germany sells such a transporting device under the brand “Scandy”, in which a first carrying device in the form of a conical basket outfitted with a rear flap is arranged on a chassis and a second carrying device is provided above the first carrying device, being fastened to the first carrying device. This second carrying device is also conical in shape and its back side is likewise closed by a pivotable flap. The upper carrying device is slightly broader than the lower carrying device. The two carrying devices are each fixed to an upward slanting spar situated on the long sides of the chassis. Between the spars are arranged two horizontally disposed support struts, which additionally brace the two carrying devices at the bottom. In the rear area of the first carrying device there is provided a pushing device, which comprises two handle devices, joined by a horizontally situated and transversely extending tubular push handle. The transporting device can be moved by hand, both with the aid of the two handle devices and also alternatively solely with the aid of the push handle. Even though the first and the second carrying device are configured such that they can be pushed into identical carrying devices of another transporting device that can be moved by hand during the stacking of two transporting devices, the stacking effect so achieved is therefore unsatisfactory because the configuration of the chassis is found to be very cumbersome and takes up space which could be used for a tight stacking. The stacking distance of two nested transporting devices is therefore relatively large, so that an enormous space and footprint is required for several identical transporting devices that are provided for use by customers.
The problem which the invention proposes to solve is to modify a transporting device of the above indicated kind such that, by doing away with a transversely extending push handle, both the two handle devices and also the second carrying device are still fixed in a sufficiently stable manner so that the chassis can have an extremely simple design and identical transporting devices can be nested in each other in a more space-saving manner than heretofore.
The solution of the problem is described in the characterizing passage of claim 1.
A first benefit of the solution found is that identical transporting devices according to the invention can be stacked in an extremely space-saving manner. An overall large space and room saving is achieved when parking several transporting devices in a row. Thanks to the fastening of the two handle devices to the second carrying device, a connection is created between the lower, i.e., the first carrying device and the upper, i.e., the second carrying device. In this way, to mention a second advantage, no side spars are required, which would have to have supported both the first and the second carrying device. The two handle devices are able by themselves to support the second carrying device. Therefore, the structural height of the proposed transporting device is also further reduced in an advantageous manner, so that there is a sufficient open view when pushing such a transporting device. Thanks to eliminating a transversely running push handle, a free gap is established between the two handle devices which can be utilized by the second carrying device of the nested transporting device when nesting together two identical transporting devices so that the second carrying device of the nested transporting device can move past the handle devices of the carrying device in front and be pushed deep into the second carrying device of the transporting device in front. The same also holds for the first carrying device of the two transporting devices. Such closely stacked transporting devices can therefore also be shipped economically, since the space and room requirement, as already mentioned, is extremely slight.
The invention shall be explained more closely with the aid of a sample embodiment. There are shown:
The transporting device 1 represented in
In addition,
In addition, a supporting piece 19 may be provided between the first carrying device 4 and the second carrying device 8 near the two handle devices 13, the supporting pieces 19 being designed primarily to prevent a possible swinging of the second carrying device 8 during use of the transporting device 1, also see
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20 2016 001 594.0 | Mar 2016 | DE | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/DE2017/000055 | 3/2/2017 | WO | 00 |