Patent ID: 7762363
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60Y,B62B,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A motorized beach wagon convertible to a table, said beach wagon for transporting goods, said beach wagon comprising, in combination: an undercarriage; 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 having a substantially rectangular perimeter, said deck being above said front wheels and said rear wheels; a pair of planar 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 said 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 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 pair of spring rollers mounted adjacent the open portions of said substantially rectangular perimeter within said compartment; and, said webs of flexible material each mounted to one of said pair said spring rollers, each of said webs of flexible material when extended forming a side of said container and when retracted stowable in said compartment.