Patent ID: 6910696

Claim:
A transporter having a carrying configuration and a mobile configuration, the transporter including: a body shell which includes a base portion and side cheeks on opposite sides of the base portions with a body cavity within the shell; two pairs of legs, one pair of said legs being disposed on each side of the transporter; a set of four wheels carried by said two pairs of legs which, in said carrying configuration, are retracted into said side cheeks of said body shell; two drive loops, one of said drive loops being disposed on each side of the transporter; a respective slider, to which each of said legs is coupled, secured to one of said drive loops; a respective slideway along which each of said sliders moves; a pair of arms, which are secured proximate the centres of said side cheeks and which, in said carrying configuration, are upstanding from opposite sides of the body shell for use in carrying the transporter; and a handle extending between said pair of arms and operably coupled to said drive loops and the wheels , said coupling being so constructed and arranged that, in converting the transporter into said mobile configuration, the handle is moved relative to the body shell to thereby cause the wheels to extend from the body shell whereby, the transporter is movably supported on the wheels.