Patent ID: 6988737

Claim:
A portable cart comprising: a main compartment having a pair of spaced parallel side walls, each of said side walls having front, rear and bottom edges; a back wall attached to the rear edges of the side walls; a bottom wall attached to the bottom edges of the side walls to form a front opening; at least two wheels being relatively wide compared to their diameter for supporting the main compartment on sand; said wheels being rotatably mounted adjacent the bottom of the main compartment; the wheels supporting the side walls above a ground-engaging surface when the main compartment is in an upright position; a door hingedly connected along the front edge of at least one of the side walls for movement about a vertical axis between a closed position, parallel to the back wall, and blocking access through the front opening into the compartment, and an open position permitting access through the front opening into the compartment; and the door having a bottom ground-engaging edge disposed adjacent the around in both said open and said closed positions such that the main compartment is self-supporting in said upright position when the door is in said open position, and the wheels and the lower edge of the door engage a ground surface.