Shopping cart
OwnerThomas R. Salvadorinventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart provides a carrier adapted for carrying items, which carrier is pivotally mounted to a support. Further, a wall structure is provided, also pivotally mounted to the support, which wall structure and carrier can be pivoted to a position to provide a carrying space defined by the carrier and the wall structure. Further, the support and a base upon which the support is mounted are of molded integral, and thus relatively inexpensive, constructions and have an open end such that one of the shopping carts can be easily and conveniently nested into another of the shopping carts.
Claims12
In a shopping cart having a ground engaging base and a support extending therefrom, the improvement comprising:
- a carrying means including a basket having sidewalls and a bottom wall defining a carrying space adapted for carrying goods;
- means for pivotally mounting the basket to the support about an axis;
- a wall structure having sidewalls defining another space;
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- means for pivotally mounting the wall structure to the support such that the wall structure and the basket can be selectively pivoted about said axis to a position wherein the sidewalls of the wall structure form extensions of the sidewalls of the basket whereby the cooperate to define a combined space, which is larger than the carrying space of said basket.
A shopping cart comprising:
- an integral base and upstanding support having an open end adapted to nestingly receive an end of another shopping cart;
- a carrying means including a basket having sidewalls and a bottom wall defining a carrying space adapted for carrying goods;
- means for pivotally mounting the basket to the upstanding support about an axis;
- a wall structure having sidewalls defining another space;
- means for pivotally mounting the wall structure to the upstanding support about said axis, wherein both the basket and the wall structure can be pivoted to a first position wherein the sidewalls of the wall structure form extensions of the sidewalls of the carrying means to define a space which is larger than the carrying space of said basket, and wherein both the basket and the wall structure can be pivoted to a second position to facilitate the nesting of the end of the another shopping cart into said shopping cart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.