Hingeable baby seat backrest for shopping cart

A hinge gate construction for a baby seat compartment secureable to a rear portion of an elevated frame of a shopping cart, a main forward merchandise-carrying basket having a bottom wall and an open rear end secured to a forward portion of said frame;

• said baby seat compartment having opposed side walls, a rear wall with leg holes and a bottom wall;
• said hinge gate being a rectangular frame forming a front wall for said baby seat compartment, a pair of spaced hinge connectors extending from said bottom edge of said rectangular frame, said hinge connectors being secured under said bottom wall of said baby seat compartment and permitting said rectangular frame to be displaced from an upright arrested position to a substantially horizontal collapsed position forwardly over said bottom wall of said merchandise-carrying compartment which is substantially in the same plane as said bottom wall of said baby seat compartment to expand the area of said basket, a sliding latch displaceably secured in a top portion of said rectangular frame and having engageable extensions disposed outwardly of opposed end edges of said rectangular frame, said sliding latch being a finger engageable sliding member retained captive between guide means provided in said rectangular frame and accessible in a top portion of said rectangular frame, said sliding member is an elongated rectangular loop retained captive between two spaced apart horizontal rods in a top portion of said rectangular frame, said guide means being constituted by two or more transversely spaced pairs of restraining rods, each restraining rod of each pair being secured transversely aligned with each other and secured to a respective side and across said two horizontal rods to define guide channels therebetween;
• and restraining means in said opposed side walls to receive and retain a respective one of said engageable extensions therein to arrest said rectangular frame in said upright position.

A hinge gate construction for a baby seat compartment secureable to a rear portion of an elevated frame of a shopping cart, a main forward merchandise-carrying basket having a bottom wall and an open rear end secured to a forward portion of said frame;

• said baby seat compartment having opposed side walls, a rear wall with leg holes and a bottom wall;
• said hinge gate being a rectangular frame forming a front wall for said baby seat compartment, a pair of spaced hinge connectors extending from said bottom edge of said rectangular frame, said hinge connectors being secured under said bottom wall of said baby seat compartment and permitting said rectangular frame to be displaced from an upright arrested position to a substantially horizontal collapsed position forwardly over said bottom wall of said merchandise-carrying compartment which is substantially in the same plane as said bottom wall of said baby seat compartment to expand the area of said basket, a sliding latch displaceably secured in a top portion of said rectangular frame and having engageable extensions disposed outwardly of opposed end edges of said rectangular frame, said engageable extensions are wire loops each secured to opposed ends of said sliding member, said wire loops each having an inwardly turned free end portion, said sliding latch being a finger engageable sliding member retained captive between guide means provided in said rectangular frame and accessible in a top portion of said rectangular frame, and restraining means in said opposed side walls to receive and retain a respective one of said engageable extensions therein to arrest said rectangular frame in said upright position.