Personal shopping cart and method of use
OwnerJason Gardnerinventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart basket comprises one or more modular baskets couplable to a bottom basket having a plurality of wheels extending downwardly to allow the shopping cart basket to roll. Each of the modular baskets has a foldable bottom wall that can act as a bottom of a separate basket or can be folded against a side wall of the modular basket. The modular baskets could be used to hold items within a smaller compartment, and can be combined with the bottom basket to form a roll-able shopping cart having a larger compartment. Such a cart is advantageously used in a store, such as a grocery store, a retail shopping mall, or a home improvement store.
Claims7
A method of using a shopping cart, the method comprising the steps of:
- stacking a top basket on top of a bottom basket;
- pivoting first and second panels of a bottom most wall of the top basket to a retracted position wherein the first and second panels of the bottom wall of the top basket being pivotally attached to bottom most edge portions of opposed walls of the top basket and being generally perpendicular to sidewalls of the top basket in the retracted position;
- retaining the first and second panels of the bottom wall of the top basket in the retracted position;
- pushing a handle attached to the top basket to roll the shopping cart around an area;
- passing a first object through an access pathway defined by sidewalls of the top basket into an interior space of the bottom basket which is disposed under the top basket;
- transitioning first and second panels of the bottom wall of the top basket to a deployed position wherein the first and second panels are perpendicular to the sidewalls of the top basket;
- placing a second object on the bottom wall of the top basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.