Shopping cart
OwnerFrances R. Balhainventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart including a wheeled basket having a hinged cover and a rear wall pivotable upwardly and forwardly by the forward end of the basket of a like cart to permit nesting of said carts. Mechanism is provided whereby the wheels are locked when the cover is open and unlocked when the cover is closed, although the wheel lock may be operated manually if the cover is held open by overloading of the basket. Mechanism is also provided for locking the rear basket wall whenever the wheels are locked. A key lock mechanism is provided for locking the cover, wheels and rear basket wall in the event the user desires to leave the cart unattended.
Claims8
A shopping cart comprising:
- a. a frame nestable forwardly into the frame of another like cart,
- b. ground-engaging wheels carried rotatably by and supporting said frame,
- c. a basket open at its rearward end mounted on said frame and being forwardly tapered whereby to be nestable forwardly into the basket of another like cart,
- d. a rear basket wall operable when closed to close the rearward end of said basket, but being pivotably mounted on a horizontal transverse axis at its upper edge, whereby to be deflectable upwardly and forwardly by the forward end of the basket of a like cart to permit nesting of said baskets,
- e. a mechanical locking device operable when engaged to lock said rear basket wall closed, and to lock at least certain of said wheels against rotation, and
- f. manual operating means for selectively engaging and disengaging said locking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.