Shopping cart having cupholder
AssigneeUnarco Industries, Inc.
InventorRandy Garvin
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Abstract
In a shopping cart, in which structures are movable between a first set of relative positions, in which a child seat is defined by the movable structures, and a second set of relative positions, in which the shopping cart is adapted to receive a similar cart nesting into the shopping cart, a cupholder comprises a cup-holding body mounted to one of the movable structures so that the cup-holding body occupies a portion of the child seat in the first set of relative positions. The body is made from a rubbery material enabling the body to collapse to a collapsed condition, in which the body, if empty, does not prevent nesting of a similar cart into the shopping cart, and to return to an uncollapsed condition, in which the body can hold a cup.
Claims20
A shopping cart equipped with a cupholder and comprising structures movable between a first set of relative positions, in which a child seat is defined, and a second set of relative positions, in which the shopping cart is adapted to receive a nesting cart, the movable structures comprising a gate pivotable between a lowered position, in which the gate is positioned in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and an elevated position, in which the gate is positioned in the second set of relative positions of the movable structures,
- wherein the cupholder comprises a cup-holding body mounted to one of the movable structures so that the cup-holding body projects into the shopping cart, where the child seat is defined, in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and wherein the cup-holding body is made from a rubbery material enabling the cup-holding body to collapse to a collapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body, if empty, does not prevent nesting of a similar cart into the shopping cart equipped with the cupholder, and enabling the cup-holding body to return to an uncollapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body can hold a cup.
For use with a shopping cart comprising structures movable between a first set of relative positions, in which a child seat is defined, and a second set of relative positions, in which the shopping cart is adapted to receive a nesting cart, the movable structures comprising a gate pivotable between a lowered position, in which the gate is positioned in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and an elevated position, in which the gate is positioned in the second set of relative positions of the movable structures,
- a cupholder comprising a cup-holding body mountable to one of the movable structures so that the cup-holding body projects into the shopping cart, where the child seat is defined, in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and wherein the cup-holding body is made from a rubbery material enabling the cup-holding body to collapse to a collapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body, if empty, does not prevent nesting of a similar cart into the shopping cart equipped with the cupholder, and enabling the cup-holding body to return to an uncollapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body can hold a cup.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.