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US 4,922,639 AGranted
Cart with advertising panels
AssigneeRehrig International, Inc.
InventorHouston Rehrig
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Abstract
Molded-in advertising panels which may be integrally formed with any of the walls of a plastic shopping cart basket. The molded-in advertising panel includes a plate portion, molded with and recessed from the outer surface of the walls of the plastic basket, and a frame element. The frame element for the molded-in panel is preferably identical to that for the retrofitted panel embodiment and is also retained in position using tabs and slots.
Claims48
A shopping cart comprising:
- a plastic first wall;
- a plastic second wall connected to said first wall, said second wall having a second wall inner surface, a second wall outer surface, and a second wall opening, said second wall and said first wall defining in part a shopping cart basket;
- a plate member disposed in said second wall opening and integrally formed and molded as one piece with said second wall, said plate member having an inner side and an outer side;
- a frame member releasably mountable on said plate member and thereby generally recessed in from said second wall outer surface;
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- a releasable holding means for releasably holding said frame member on said plate member;
- wherein said frame and plate members, when held together by said releasable holding means, define generally therebetween an advertisement card receiving slot and an advertisement card display area, the advertisement card display area being positioned for receiving therein into an advertisement card display position an advertisement card inserted through said advertisement card slot when said frame and plate members are held together by said releasable holding means.
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A shopping cart wall comprising:
- a wall having a wall inner surface, a wall outer surface and a wall opening;
- a plate member secured in said wall opening, said plate member having inner and outer sides;
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- a frame member attached to said plate member and recessed in from said wall outer surface;
- wherein said plate and frame members define generally therebetween an advertisement card receiving slot and an advertisement card display area associated with said slot such that an advertisement card can be inserted in through said slot to said area and to a display position generally within said frame member and subsequently removed from said area through said slot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.