Apparatus with wire cart for moving, storing and dispensing spooled material

• US 8,403,345 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2011
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Angelo Iossa
• Original Assignee: Michael Angelo Designs, LLC
• Inventors: Iossa, Angelo, Iossa, Michael, Thomson, Kirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Ebner, Katy M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frick, Emma K
• Application Number:
  US13/107,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20120286491A1
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 280/47.34, 280/47.35, 280/79.11, 280/79.2, 280/79.3, 280/79.4, 280/79.6, 280/6.151, 414/434, 414/437, 414/444, 414/445, 414/787, 414/911, 242/557, 242/559, 242/561
• US Class Current: 280/79.6
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 2202/025 Reels, e.g. for filamentary or sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 5/0083 Wheeled supports connected to the transported object
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1922 for covering surfaces such as carpets, roads, roofs or walls
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/36 Wires
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/37 Tapes
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 49/32 Stands or frameworks
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 49/325 Arrangements or adaptations for supporting the shafts, e.g. saddle type shaft bearings
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4468 Tubular frame

Abstract

The present invention is a unique cart for transporting and dispensing spooled or reeled materials such as wire, carpet, or cable. The apparatus allows a user to elevate a spool of material off the ground into a suspended position where the material can be unreeled, without the user having to manually lift the spool. The apparatus also allows the user to transport or move the elevated material from place to place while still in the cart. The apparatus also contains a feature for transport, storage, and unreeling of multiple spools of material.

Claims

1. A spool reeling and dispensing cart apparatus, comprising;

a first, substantially rigid, hexagonal support frame having at least a first, a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth facet, wherein the five facets have a substantially similar width;

a second substantially rigid, hexagonal frame being a substantially congruent version of said first hexagonal support frame, being positioned parallel to the first support frame, and having correspondingly a first, a second, a third, a fourth, and fifth facet, wherein the five facets have a substantially similar width;

at least one roll prevention stop, said one roll prevention stop being fixedly connected at a first end to an inner side of a corner of said first support frame where the fourth facet and the fifth facet are connected and fixedly connected at a second end to an inner side of a corner of said second support frame wherein the fourth facet and the fifth facet are connected, said roll prevention stop being oriented substantially normal to a plane containing said first support frame, and substantially normal to a plane containing said second support frame;

a first axle support cam oriented to lie in a plane of said first support frame and having a straight cam section, a concave cam section and an axle locking cam section, wherein the straight cam section directly attaches to the first support frame, and wherein the concave cam section and the axle locking cam section do not directly attach to the first support frame;

a second axle support cam oriented to lie in a plane of said second support frame and having a straight cam section, a concave cam section and an axle locking cam section, wherein the straight cam section directly attaches to the second support frame, and wherein the concave cam section and the axle locking cam section do not directly attach to the second support frame;

at least two substantially rigid connector rods, each fixedly connected at a first end to said inner side of said first, support frame and at a second end to a substantially corresponding location on said inner side of said a second support frame, said connector rods being oriented to be substantially normal to both a plane of said first support frame and to a plane of said second support frame;

a first axle storage rack, being substantially straight and having at least two axle storage slots linearly aligned on the first axle storage rack, said first axle storage rack being fixedly attached to at least the third facet of said first support frame;

a second axle storage rack, being substantially straight and having at least two axle storage slots linearly aligned on the second axle storage rack, said second axle storage rack being fixedly attached to at least the third facet of said second, support frame, and where said axle storage slots of said second storage rack are aligned to said axle storage slots of said first storage rack such that a line joining corresponding points of said slots is substantially normal to both of the plane that each contain one of said support frames;

a first and second flat-faced, substantially rigid terminator-bar, each fixedly connected to an outside face of said axle storage racks, and each partially occluding said axle storage slots.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each said concave cam section is an elliptical cam section.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first axle support cam further comprises a first roll-off aid cam section having a roll off cam first end connected to the fifth facet of the first support frame and oriented to lie in a plane of said first support frame.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a removable main axle said removable main axle being removably mounted on and spanning a distance between each said axle support cams.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a material reel, wherein said reel has a permanent main axle, said permanent main axle being removably mounted on and spanning a distance between each said axle support cams.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein said removable main axle is temporarily locked into place within said axle locking cam section.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising an axle lateral flange on a main axle first end and a main axle second end of said removable main axle.

8. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a mobility aid attached to the third facet of said first support frame or said second support frame.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said mobility aid comprises at least one wheel.