Staircase Trolley

Trolleys in general are designed to be used on plane surfaces, where the trolley can be pushed or pulled with ease. However, if something is needed to be moved over stairs or to a higher elevation, a ramp had to be built for this purpose or an elevator employed. In any building that has more than one floor, a staircase would definitely be present, but a conventional trolley could not be pulled over such a staircase. The cost involved in building a ramp or using an elevator was high for moving a few things and this persistent problem faced by the industries in particular drove us to come up with a solution.

The straight forward objective was to design a pull trolley that could be pulled over a staircase. A simple concept of using a tri-star shaped arrangement for the wheels, accommodating 3 wheels on each side was used, thereby making the trolley ‘climb’ over a staircase effectively. These trolleys could arguably be the first of its kind in India making it unique.

This trolley would go a long way in alleviating the pain and risk involved in handling heavy loads over higher planes. It would help the workers in an industry to move heavy loads without hurting themselves in the process. The trolley is not confined to use only in industries, it can be used in hospitals to carry oxygen cylinders between floors, in railway stations to carry loads over a staircase, in docking yards, and basically in any environment where a load has to be moved to a higher level over a staircase.