Patent ID: 8453771
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60Y,B62B,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A beach wagon convertible to a table, said beach wagon for transporting goods, said beach wagon comprising, in combination: an undercarriage having a front end, two sides and a rear end; a pair of front wheels with a yoke for manually pivoting said pair of front wheels to steer said beach wagon, said pair of front wheels depending from said front end of said undercarriage; a pair of rear wheels depending from said rear end of said undercarriage; a deck having a front end, two sides and a rear end, said deck disposed on said undercarriage and having a substantially rectangular perimeter; a pair of table leaves hingedly attached to and spaced apart from opposite sides of said substantially rectangular perimeter of said deck and operable between an open position and a closed position, said leaves in said open position forming opposite sides of a container for said goods, said leaves in said closed position forming a table and a compartment between table and said deck; a pair of container panels each formed from a web of flexible material selected from a group consisting of a polymeric laminate, a high-strength mesh, a woven technical textile, a nonwoven technical textile, and a high strength net, said pair of container panels stowable in said compartment formed by said deck and said table in said closed position, said container panels, when said table leaves are moved to an open position, attachable thereto to substantially enclose the open portion of said substantially rectangular perimeter of said deck; a pair of spring rollers mounted adjacent the open portions of said substantially rectangular perimeter within said compartment; said webs of material each mounted to said rollers, each of said webs of flexible material when extended forming a side of said container and when retracted stowable in said compartment; a drive motor attached to said undercarriage; gearbox means in cooperative functional relation with said drive motor for transmitting rotatory forces from said drive motor to said rear wheels; a battery connected to said drive motor; a wheel assembly depending from said rear end of said undercarriage, said wheel assembly further comprising: whereby upon removal of said pair of cotter pins, said pair of compression springs are extended thereby disengaging said pair of hubs from said pair of rings allowing for manual operation.