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US 6,126,181 AGranted
Shopping cart with stepped baskets
OwnerV. John Ondrasikinventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart has a wheeled base, a frame projecting upwardly from the base, the frame having a lower portion and an upper portion stepped rearwardly from the lower portion, a first basket projecting forwardly from the lower portion of the frame, and a second basket projecting forwardly from the upper portion of the frame. The rear wall of the lower basket is fixed in position, and carts can be nested together by positioning the lower basket of a first cart beneath the upper basket of a second cart, with no moving parts required for nesting.
Claims9
A shopping cart, comprising:
- a wheeled base having a forward end and a rear end;
- a frame projecting upwardly from the base, the frame having a lower, forward portion and an upper portion stepped rearwardly from the lower portion;
- a first basket projecting forwardly from the lower portion of the frame;
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- a second basket projecting forwardly from the upper portion of the frame;
- each basket having a front wall and a rear wall, and the rear wall of each basket comprising a rigid, non-nestable wall with no moving parts, whereby carts can be nested together by positioning the lower basket of a first cart beneath the upper basket of a second cart with the front wall of the lower basket of the first cart positioned rearwardly of the rear wall of the lower basket of the second cart, and the front wall of the upper basket of the first cart positioned rearwardly of the rear wall of the upper basket of the second cart.
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