Gate mechanism for cart

in a shopping cart having an upwardly opening basket including spaced sidewalls upstanding from a bottom wall, the basket having an opening in one end thereof, and a gate movably supported on the basket for closing the opening, the improvement comprising:

• mounting means coacting between the gate and the basket for permitting movement of said gate between a first position wherein the gate projects upwardly from the bottom wall and closes said opening and a second position wherein the gate is disposed in an opened position in which at least a majority of the gate is located beneath and approximately parallel with said bottom wall, said mounting means including a pair of bumpers mounted adjacent the lower front corners of said basket, said bumpers having guide means thereon for slidably supporting said gate for movement into said opened position, said guide means including an elongated guide portion which extends substantially parallel to the bottom wall of said basket.

In a shopping cart including an upwardly opening rectangular basket having three sides thereof defined by side walls which are upstanding from a bottom wall, the basket having a fourth side thereof defined by an opening, and a gate structure movably supported on the basket for closing the opening, the improvement comprising:

• mounting means coacting between the gate and the basket for permitting movement of said gate between a first position wherein the gate projects upwardly from the bottom wall and closes said opening and a second position wherein at least a majority of the gate is located exteriorly of and approximately parallel with an adjacent one of said walls in superimposed relationship therewith so that the opening is opened;
• said mounting means including first means for permitting said gate to be swingably moved from said first position into an intermediate position wherein the gate extends at least partially outwardly away from the basket, and second means for permitting the gate to be substantially linearly slidably displaced from said intermediate position into said second position.

In a shopping cart having an upwardly opening basket including spaced side walls upstanding from a bottom wall, the basket having an opening in one end thereof, and a gate movably supported on the basket for closing the opening, the improvement comprising:

• mounting means coacting between the gate and the basket for permitting both angular and translatory movement of said gate relative to said basket between a first position wherein the gate projects upwardly from the bottom wall and closes said opening and a second position wherein the gate is located below and approximately parallel with said bottom wall so that at least a majority of said gate is disposed beneath said bottom wall, said gate being defined between upper and lower substantially horizontally extending edges when said gate is in said first position, said gate when in said second position having said lower edge disposed beneath said bottom wall and spaced rearwardly a substantial distance from the end edge of said bottom wall as defined at said opening, said gate when in said second position having the upper edge thereof positioned in the vicinity of the end edge of said bottom wall;
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• support means coacting between said basket and said gate when the gate is in said second position for preventing said gate from swinging downwardly away from said bottom wall.