Patent ID: 9555822
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A63B,B62B

Claim:
1. A transport device, comprising: a carriage having at least two axles and at least three wheels mounted on said at least two axles; one of said axles being a drive axle carrying exactly one of said wheels, centrally mounted and configured as an electrically driven cylindrical wheel equipped with a hub motor centrally integrated into said cylindrical wheel; a support unit supported on said carriage and configured to accommodate an elongated load; a guide component formed with a handle area on a control side of the transport device; wherein, by pushing down said guide component, the transport device is tiltable about said drive axle into a tilted operational position, wherein said drive axle at said carriage is present at the control side, said support unit extends on both a forward and rearward side of said drive axle in the tilted operational position, and only said single driven wheel has ground contact, wherein the guide component is mounted to the carriage between said at least two axles.