Patent ID: 8152180
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: B62B

Abstract:
1. A hand cart including (a) a upright frame having an upper end and a lower end; (b) a pair of ground engaging wheels attached to said lower end of said frame, (c) a handle connected to said upper end of said frame, and (d) a thin, flat, smooth metal toe plate and having an upper surface, a lower surface, a trailing edge connected to said frame, a leading edge, a first side edge extending between said leading edge and said trailing edge, and a second side edge spaced apart from said first side edge and extending between said leading edge and said trailing edge; (e) a free-standing orientation in which said toe plate is slightly canted toward the ground such that said leading edge is closer to the ground than said trailing edge; (f) an extension unit slidably mounted on said toe plate, slightly angled downwardly toward the ground when said cart is in said free-standing orientation, and including