Shopping cart
OwnerBruce M. Tyrrellinventor
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Abstract
An article carrying apparatus in the form of a support that is used with a shopping cart to provide a horizontal support for safely carrying loads that are longer than the length of the cart. The support may be used with any conventional shopping cart having nestable or non-nestable baskets. The support is hingedly attached to a lower structural member of the cart basket. The support is movable between a first position in which it lays flat against the bottom wall of the cart basket, allowing the basket to be nested into an adjacent cart, and a second position in which it is substantially resting against the front wall of the basket
Claims11
A support for holding articles in a shopping cart, the shopping cart being characterized as having a basket formed of a plurality of wires arranged to define a shopping cart basket, the basket having an upper basket edge defined by an uppermost wire, the basket having a lower basket edge defined by a lowermost wire, and the basket including a front wall and a bottom wall, the support comprising:
- first and second support legs, each support leg having a cart attachment member connected to its lowermost end;
- a first crossbar connecting the first and second support legs to each other;
- a second crossbar connecting the first and second support legs to each other;
- at least one retention tab connected to the second crossbar for releasably engaging the uppermost wire of the basket;
- each attachment member rotatably connecting the support to the lowermost wire so that the support can rotate between a first, retracted, position where it is laying substantially flat against the bottom of the basket and a second, in-use, position, where it is releasably held adjacent the front wall by the interconnection of the at least one retention tab and the uppermost wire.
A support for holding articles in a shopping cart, the shopping cart being characterized as having a basket formed of a plurality of structural members arranged to define a shopping cart basket, the basket having an upper basket edge defined by an uppermost structural member, the basket having a lower basket edge defined by a lowermost structural member, and the basket including a front wall and a bottom wall, the support comprising:
- first and second support legs, each support leg having a cart attachment structure connected to its lowermost end;
- a first crossbar connecting the first and second support legs to each other;
- at least one retention tab connected to the support for releasably engaging the uppermost structural member;
- each attachment structure rotatably connecting the support to the lowermost structural member so that the support can rotate between a first, retracted, position where it is laying substantially flat against the bottom of the basket and a second, in-use, position, where it is releasably held adjacent the front wall by the interconnection of the at least one retention tab and the uppermost structural member.
A support for holding articles in a shopping cart, the shopping cart being characterized as having a basket formed of a plurality of structural members arranged to define a shopping cart basket, the basket having an upper structural member, the basket having a lower structural member, and the basket including a front wall and a bottom wall, the support comprising:
- first and second support legs, each support leg having a cart attachment member connected to its lower end;
- a first crossbar connecting the first and second support legs to each other at least one retention tab connected to the first or second leg for releasably engaging the upper structural member;
- each cart attachment member being rotatably connected to the lower structural member so that the support can rotate between a first, retracted, position where it lays substantially flat against the bottom of the basket and a second, in-use, position, where it is releasably held adjacent the front wall by the interconnection of the at least one retention tab and the upper structural member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.