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OwnerJames G. Prather, Miguel Orozco +2inventors
InventorsJames G. Prather, Miguel Orozco, Patrick Maandag, Harold Duffy
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An anti-theft system for a shopping cart comprises a collapsible front suspension mounted between the front side members of a base frame of the shopping cart, the front suspension including a support, a first set of casters mounted to the support, retractable pin means carried by the support and engagable with the side members of the base frame for maintaining the front suspension in an operative mode in which the first set of casters engage a supporting surface, a sensor for detecting a first external signal, apparatus functionally coupled to the sensor for transmitting an activation signal to the retractable pin means to cause retraction of the pin means and render the front suspension inoperative, and a second set of casters fixed to the base frame for preventing the cart from moving in a linear direction, when the front suspension is rendered inoperative.
An anti-theft system for a shopping cart, comprising:
A shopping cart comprising:
A process of retrofitting a shopping cart with an anti-theft device comprising the steps of:
A shopping cart having a base with forward and side members, comprising:
A cart comprising a collapsible front wheel support including casters and a trigger means adapted to collapse the support upon receipt of a trigger signal, the trigger means comprising a contracting member that contracts upon heating, and additional casters attached to the cart forwardly of said front wheel support casters, whereby when said front wheel support collapses, said additional casters become operative to support said cart for non-linear motion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.