Patent ID: 8888110

Claim:
A pallet-dolly device convertible between a pallet and a dolly, the device comprising: a deck having a generally rectangular shape with four sides, and a load supporting surface; a set of dolly wheels, attached at a fixed height below an underside of the deck so as to define a wheel contact plane; a set of movable pallet skids, each pallet skid having a ground contacting surface; a skid displacement mechanism, mechanically linked to the deck and the pallet skids, configured to move the pallet skids between a skid lowered position in which the skid ground contacting surface is lowered below the wheel contact plane to provide a pallet state of the pallet-dolly device, and a skid raised position in which the skid ground contacting surface is raised above the wheel contact plane to provide a dolly state of the pallet-dolly device; and at least two pedals associated with the skid displacement mechanism and deployed to be operated by a user to activate the skid displacement mechanism, a first of said pedals being disposed on a first side of the deck and a second of said pedals being disposed on a second side of the deck, said second side of the deck being adjacent to the first side of the deck.