Infant Carrier Holder
AssigneeSafe-Strap Company, Inc.
InventorsPaul Giampavolo, Christopher M. Johnson
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Abstract
An infant carrier holder has a floor with a ramp and sidewalls and is mounted to a shopping cart. The ramp and sidewalls can contribute to stably supporting an infant carrier. The holder serves as a mechanical interface between an infant carrier, which can be received in the holder, and the shopping cart. The holder can be concavely shaped to assist in shopping cart nesting in addition to supporting a received infant carrier at a desired angle. The holder can be adjustably mounted to a gate or a basket of the shopping cart and may/may not interfere with nesting operations. The holder permits an infant carrier to be supported on a shopping cart without using a significant amount of shopping cart space or interfering with nesting operations.
Claims20
An infant carrier holder for supporting a handheld infant carrier on a shopping cart, comprising:
- a floor element with a top surface for supporting the infant carrier;
- a plurality of sidewalls connected to the floor element and extending above the top surface for limiting lateral movement of the infant carrier;
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- at least one of the sidewalls being suitable for rigidly mounting the infant carrier holder to the shopping cart and including an inner surface that is parallel to a shopping cart basket wall when the infant carrier holder is mounted to the basket wall of the shopping cart with the at least one sidewall.
An infant carrier holder for supporting handheld infant carrier on a shopping cart, comprising:
- a support member with a top surface for supporting the handheld infant carrier, the top surface being defined by four edges and being continuously curved from one edge to an opposing edge;
- a sidewall adjoining each edge and extending above the top surface for limiting lateral movement of the handheld infant carrier;
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- at least one sidewall being configured to be rigidly mounted to a shopping cart basket wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.