Shopping cart desk
OwnerPeggy B. Reitenourinventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart desk is set forth including a first and second rigid plate with a flexible spine enabling overlying alignment of a first and second plate together with securement members to secure the first and second plates utilizing hook and loop fasteners. A plurality of aligned handles are positioned at uppermost edges of the plates for portability of the desk. Upon opening of the first and second plates into a horizontally aligned orientation relative to one another, first and second slide bolts secure the first and second plates in alignment to present storage, writing, and calculation facilities therewithin for use by an individual.
Claims11
A shopping cart having front, back and sidewalls and being desk securable to a shopping cart of a predetermined width and length, said desk comprising,
- a first rigid plate formed with parallel exterior and interior surfaces, and
- a geometrically equal second rigid plate formed with exterior and interior surfaces pivotally mounted in edge to edge orientation relative to said first plate by an elongate hinge, and
- a first handle formed medially to an outer edge of said first plate spaced from said hinge and a second handle formed medially to an outer edge of said second plate spaced from said hinge wherein said first and second handle and said first and second plates are aligned with one another when said plates are pivoted from a first position horizontally aligned with one another and a second vertical position wherein said first and second plates are aligned in confronting interior face to interior face relationship relative to one another, said plates being dimensioned to extend substantially across said predetermined width overlapping said side walls and over a portion of said predetermined length of said shopping cart when said plates are in said first position, and
- a first securement flap formed on said outer edge of said first plate spaced from said first handle on one side of said first handle, and
- a first attachment patch aligned with said first securement flap when said first and second plates are in the second position and wherein said first attachment patch is formed on an outer edge of said second plate spaced from said second handle, and
- said first attachment patch and said first securement flap each include cooperative hook and loop fasteners, and
- latch means slidably mounted to the interior face of said first and second plate for securement of the first and second plate in said first position, and
- accessory means formed in said interior surfaces of said first& and second plate to assist an individual in shopping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.