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.
Claims15
A shopping cart, the cart comprising:
- a bottom basket having a plurality of side walls and a bottom wall, the bottom basket having a plurality of wheels attached to the bottom basket extending downwardly to roll the shopping cart on a ground;
- a top basket having a plurality of side walls and a bottom wall, the top basket having a handle to steer the shopping cart, the bottom wall of the top basket being foldable and the plurality of side walls defining an access pathway defined by upper and lower peripheries of the plurality of side walls of the top basket so that when the top basket is engaged to the bottom basket the user can access the bottom basket via the access pathway when the bottom wall of the top basket is folded.
A method of using a shopping cart, the method comprising the steps of:
- stacking a top basket on top of a bottom basket;
- transitioning first and second panels of a bottom wall of the top basket to a deployed position, the first and second panels of the bottom wall of the top basket being generally perpendicular to sidewalls of the top basket;
- retaining the first and second panels of the bottom wall of the top basket in the deployed 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;
- placing a second object on the bottom wall of the top basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.