US 7,540,521 B2
Tow-bar for wheelbarrows
Thomas Marion Ragusa, 121 Keeter Cir., Wake Forest, N.C. 27857 (US)
Filed on Jun. 07, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/810,676.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/896946, filed on Mar. 26, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0238034 A1, Oct. 02, 2008
Int. Cl. B62B 1/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 280—415.1  [280/47.31] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. For attachment of a two-wheeled wheelbarrow to the rear of a towing vehicle with a vertically apertured draw bar, and thereby converting the two-wheeled wheelbarrow into a garden or industrial trailer, a combination comprising:
a wheelbarrow having a body with workman's end, dumping end and side walls, a frame including a pair of lower rails with lifting/transporting handles forward of the workman's end, extending and converging from forward of the workmen's end, beneath the body to the dumping end, a toe plate joining the rails at their dumping end and a pair of wheels mounted on an axle supported on the frame; and,
a tow bar assembly comprising a bar having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end having means for attachment to the towing vehicle from below to and through the towing vehicle vertically apertured draw bar and the rearward end having means for attachment about the wheelbarrow axle, the tow bar resting upon the wheelbarrow toe plate during use.