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US 4,303,367 AGranted
Automobile shopping bag container
OwnerJohn A. Bottinventor
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Abstract
A container having a plurality of open-topped receptacles for supporting loaded shopping bags in an upright position. The container is particularly adapted for supporting loaded shopping bags during transportation thereof in a vehicle and comprises: a box which is movable between a first position and a second position and which has open-topped receptacles, each one of which is adapted to receive and support a loaded shopping bag in an upright position; and means for supporting the box between the first and second positions in a vehicle.
Claims9
A container for holding shopping bags in an upright position for transportation in an associated vehicle comprising:
- a box member having a plurality of open topped receptacles, each of said receptacles being adapted to receive and provide lateral support for a loaded grocery bag and having a generally rectangular parallelepiped outer shape with generally vertically oriented end walls and side walls;
- a flange extending horizontally from the bottom portion of each of said side walls;
- means for movably supporting said box member between first and second positions along the horizontal surface of an associated vehicle, comprising a pair of longitudinally elongated, parallel rails, each having a channel along the laterally outer edge thereof facing toward and adapted to slideably receive a flange of one of said side walls,
- means disposed at said flange for controlling and limiting vertical and lateral movement of said flange within the channel;
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- spring biased adaptor means for removably fixedly securing said rails to said vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.