Design of a Trolly

Find an existing trolley and copy it.

If you had a specific question about a particular aspect or problem with your design there would likely be someone here who would help you.

You want us to do all the work for you. Do you have any part of the design done? Show us what you have, besides the desire for such a design.

copying one is certainly an option, there are a lot of these trolleys out there, and so finding one to copy shouldn't be a problem.

There are regulations for the design of these trolleys (bowsers). A good place to start would be motorsport. Try going to the FIA's website or looking at the regulations of individual race series.

Coincidentally i was talking to someone about bowsers a couple of days ago and he mentioned a few design points that you might find helpful:

The wheels must have solid tyres.

There should be a brake, operated by a dead man's handle.

There should be no loading above individual wheels but loading over axles is fine (bit obvious but worth a mention).

Finally, i believe this years Demon Tweeks catalogue has a couple of bowsers in it. that might help get you started.

Why do the tyres have to be solid?.... Just curious.

I was given two reasons, though alas i can only truly remember one. Due to the weight of a fully filled bowser and along with the gas cannisters that many of these carry, a puncture can render the bowser useless if it isn't near the vehicle it needs to refuel. Hence the need to eliminate this potential problem through the selection of solid tyres.

Wish i could remember the other reason but it currently escapes me.

Just a quick comment on the next post along from yours, the bowsers tend to be box frames with paneled sides. I'm not sure a table would be suitable

Do you want to re-invent the wheel? Sorry to sell on here ... eeeek!

Solid 5 inch caster wheels, strong brake, lifts a metre high, carries & lifts 750kg

Have a new one available (bought in error)
Make: Sealy. All yours for £375. collected. (brand new- one only!)

You can expand the pics to view the construction; hope this helps.

Excellent programming on CR4 - can adjust the pics on the fly! Amazing.*

jt.

* ps.. easily competes with ebay! (and others)

banu.....

This sounds very much like an engineering homework problem....?

Are you sitting in a mud hut somewhere trying to trick us older engineers ?

What you seem to need is called a "Platform truck" and can be purchased as a complete unit (no design skills needed).

http://platform-trucks.apluswhs.com

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