Patent ID: 8684374
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: B62B

Abstract:
1. An auxiliary handle for wheelbarrow having a bin, a rear pushing handle and at least one wheel, said auxiliary handle comprising at least one auxiliary fixed front handle extending cantilevered outward from a flat surface panel mountable on an outside front end of the wheelbarrow bin at an opposite end of the wheelbarrow bin from the rear handle assembly; said auxiliary fixed front handle providing at least one second lifting handle at a front end of said wheelbarrow opposite to the conventional pushing handle at a rear of said wheelbarrow; said at least one fixed front auxiliary handle having an equal height to that height of said rear conventional pushing handle assembly when said at least one fixed front auxiliary handle is at a deployed lifting height; said equal height of said at least one fixed front auxiliary handle and said rear conventional pushing handle assembly being both at a level close to the top of said wheelbarrow bin that is most useful for lifting and dumping; said height of said front and said rear handles enabling two respective lifting users to have said respective front and rear handles at equal chest height when tipping the contents of said wheelbarrow cart into a raised collection receptacle.