Motorized wheelbarrow

摘要

The motorized wheelbarrow includes a motor and drive train to propel the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow includes a wheel, a bucket, a stand, and handles. The motor is mounted underneath the bucket and provides mechanical power to the wheel via a drive train comprising a chain and sprocket configuration or a drive shaft and differential configuration. The motor is controlled with a throttle, push button start, and kill switch provided on the handles of the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow also features a handbrake that operates a disk brake provided adjacent the wheel in order to stop the wheelbarrow as needed. The motorized wheelbarrow makes reduces the strain associated with use of a wheelbarrow.

主权项

1. A motorized wheelbarrow comprising:
a bucket affixed to a first handle and a second handle; wherein a wheel is affixed to the first handle and the second handle; wherein a motor is located underneath said bucket and is in mechanical communication with a drive train that is in mechanical communication with the wheel so as to drive the wheelbarrow; wherein the wheel rotates with respect to a wheel shaft that extends between the first handle and second handle; wherein the first handle and the second handle are oriented at an acute angle there between; wherein the wheel shaft connects to both the first handle and the second handle; wherein the wheel shaft connects to the first handle and the second handle via bearing members, which provides motion from both the first handle and the second handle to the wheel shaft; wherein the bucket is further defined with a bottom surface that is affixed to a top surface of both the first handle and the second handle; wherein a stand is affixed to a bottom handle surface of the first handle as well as the second handle; wherein the bottom surface of the bucket includes the motor thereon; wherein the motor includes a throttle that is positioned on either the first handle or the second handle; wherein the throttle is positioned on the top surface of either the first handle or the second handle; wherein the throttle connects with the motor via a throttle wire; wherein the motor is also connected with a push button start that is located on either the first handle or the second handle; wherein the push button start is connected via a start wire to the motor; wherein the motor is also connected to a kill switch, which is located on either the first handle or the second handle; wherein the kill switch connects to the motor via a kill wire.