Patent ID: 6695326
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: B62B,E04D

Abstract:
A tarpaulin dolly comprising a first base plate having an upper facing surface, a side perimeter, and an underside surface, a plurality of wheel assemblies attached to said underside surface of said first base plate, a flexible tarpaulin sheet disposed above said upper facing surface of said first base plate having a captured portion and an excess portion, a second base plate having a side perimeter disposed above said captured portion of said flexible tarpaulin sheet, and means for securing said first and second base plates together and securing said captured portion of said flexible tarpaulin sheet there between, said excess portion of said flexible tarpaulin sheet extending outwardly of the entirety of said side perimeters of said first and second base plates so as, in use, to provide an inner fold of said excess portion adjacent the entirety of said side perimeters of said first base elate at a position proximal of said plurality of wheel assemblies and to provide a remainder of said excess portion at a position distal of said plurality of wheel assemblies, said inner fold of said excess portion, in use, being capable of serving as a brace to said plurality of wheel assemblies in a plane below said first base plate and said remainder of said excess portion, being capable of extending outwardly of the entirety of said side perimeters in a plane either above or below said second base plate.