Patent ID: 8006996
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: B62B

Abstract:
1. A collapsible utility cart for holding working materials including a five-gallon bucket, comprising: a base having a plurality of legs extending downwardly therefrom, each leg having a rolling means at a distal end thereof, an upper side of the base including an interlocking means; a bucket holder having a peripheral wall extending upwardly around a perimeter thereof, the bucket holder adapted to retain the five-gallon bucket therein; a plurality of support poles each having the interlocking means at each end thereof, any two of the support poles capable of being locked together by their respective interlocking means; a foldable handle adapted to interlock with the interlocking means of the top-most support pole; and a plurality of nestable, generally planar shelves each having a central aperture therein and a retaining lip extending upwardly at least partially around a perimeter thereof, and wherein each support pole is adapted to capture at least one of the shelves thereon when the utility cart is in an extended configuration, and wherein each shelf nests with the other shelves on the one support pole when the utility cart is in a collapsed configuration; whereby the bucket holder and each support pole may be added to the base to achieve the extended configuration of the utility cart, and whereby all but one of the support poles may be removed from the base, the handle fixed to the top end of the one support pole to achieve the collapsed configuration of the utility cart.