Design and Development of a Multi-Purpose Trolley

Virag A. Timbadia; Rajendra S. Khavekar; K. N. Vijayakumar

Virag A. Timbadia Mechanical Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Rajendra S. Khavekar Mechanical Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
K. N. Vijayakumar Mechanical Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Trolley is the device used for carrying load or to transport the material from one point to another. For different types of application various types of trollies are available in the market. Depending upon the specific use the one will select the trolley, but it is limited to do a specific work. To overcome this problem, a new trolley was designed which could be used for multi-purpose. There are many types of trolley available in the market for various fields like airport, shopping malls, industries, hospitals etc. to carry the heavy or light loads. This paper contains the development of trolley, which includes design on the basis of creativity skills and fabrication, which can be used for more than one type of task. The trolley designed is the integration of airport trolley and shopping mall trolley. One more advantageous feature added to the design was a motorized wheel which reduces the human effort for carrying of load and also it can be operated manually if required.