Portable desk and article carrying structure for use with shopping carts
OwnerHoward L. Hensleyinventor
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Abstract
A portable desk and article carrying structure is disclosed primarily for use by manufacturers representatives, sales people, and the like for carrying the various articles and tools needed for displaying, promoting and selling products. The portable desk and article carrying structure allows such articles to be carried into a store and is demountably positionable on a shopping cart of the type commonly used in grocery stores so as to provide a convenient surface for writing and accomplishing various other tasks at locations within the store.
Claims14
A portable desk and article carrying structure for demountable placement on a shopping cart of the type having a push handle with a spaced apart pair of cross rods proximate the push handle, said structure comprising:
- (a) a planar desk top;
- (b) case means beneath said desk top and having four walls with lower edges that cooperatively surround an open bottom end of said case means;
- (c) said case means having first and second aligned pairs of notches formed in the lower edges of an opposed pair of the four walls of said case means for receiving the cross rods of the shopping cart when said structure is demountably placed thereon;
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- (d) article carrying means in said case means in upwardly spaced relationship with respect to the open bottom end thereof.
A portable desk and article carrying structure for demountable placement on a shopping cart of the type having a transverse cross rod proximate the push handle thereof and a top cross rod at the upper end of the back rest of a childs seat of the shopping cart, said structure comprising:
- (a) a planar desk top;
- (b) case means beneath said desk top, said case means having a front wall, a back wall and an opposed pair of sidewalls, said front, back and pair of sidewalls each having a lower edge with those edges surroundingly defining an open bottom of said case means;
- (c) said opposed pair of sidewalls of said case means having a first pair of aligned notches formed in the lower edges thereof proximate the front wall of said case means for engaging the transverse cross rod of the shopping car upon placement of said structure thereon;
- (d) said opposed pair of sidewalls of said case means having a second pair of aligned notches formed in the lower edges thereof proximate the back wall of said case means for engaging the top cross rod of the back rest of the shopping cart upon placement of said structure thereon;
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- (e) article carrying means in said case means in upwardly spaced relationship with respect to the open bottom thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.