Shopping trolley provided with a pivoting basket

A shopping trolley having a frame provided at the top with a horizontal carrier basket pivotally mounted on said frame in such a manner as to permit withdrawal to a vertical positions at the rear end of said trolley by means of two lateral guides, trunnions which are carried by the sides of said pivoting basket and which define its horizontal axis of pivotal displacement being engaged within said guides, wherein:

• in the first place, the two guides aforesaid which are disposed in two vertical planes parallel to the longitudinal axis of the trolley are inclined with their lower ends disposed further forward than their upper ends a distance such that in the vertical position of withdrawal, the pivoting basket is disposed between two lateral uprights of a handle-bar portion of said frame,
• in the second place, said pivoting basket is closed at the rear end by a flap which is freely mounted for pivotal displacement at its top edge and the shape of which permits engagement of the basket through the similar rear end of another identical trolley, thus permitting interengagement of trolleys both when their carrier baskets are placed in the horizontal position and when they are in the withdrawn position.