Household and shopping laundry cart
OwnerAaron Bludworthinventor
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Abstract
A household and shopping laundry cart has a cart basket (1) with a first-side wheel (7) and a second-side wheel (8) that are positioned on sides aft of a linear center. A tow handle (10) is pivotal vertically on a tow hitch (11) on a front-end wall (4). A stair-climber incline (14) is extended slantingly downward and rearward from near a front of a bottom (6) of the cart basket to the wheels. A front support (15) proximate a front-bottom edge holds the cart basket level when stopped on a horizontal surface and aids in stair climbing. A basket cover (13) is extendable from a first top side (53) to a second top side (56). Side walls of the basket are tapered inwardly from-top-to-bottom for telescopic storage of a plurality of the household and shopping laundry carts.
Claims16
A household and shopping laundry cart comprising:
- a cart basket (1) having a first-side wall (2), a second-side wall (3), a front-end wall (4), an aft-end wall (5) and a bottom (6);
- the first-side wall (2), the second-side wall (3), the front-end wall (4), and the aft-end wall (5) being angled predeterminedly from the bottom (6) outwardly to top edges thereof for a basket entry having a larger area than the bottom (6);
- at least one first-side wheel (7) oppositely disposed from at least one second-side wheel (8) predeterminedly aft of a center of the cart basket (1);
- the first-side wheel (7) and the second-side wheel (8) being rotational on axles (9) which are positioned predeterminedly proximate the bottom (6);
- a tow handle (10) pivotal vertically on a tow hitch (11) predeterminedly proximate the front-end wall (4);
- a handle border (12) proximate tops of the first-side wall (2), the second-side wall (3), the front-end wall (4), and the aft-end wall (5) predeterminedly;
- the handle border (12) including a rounded handle border (45) articulated for being hand-grasped by users having a predetermined range of sizes of hands;
- a basket cover (13) positioned predeterminedly over the basket entry intermediate tops of the first-side wall (2) and the second-side wall (3);
- the basket cover (13) includes a flexible cover (50) having a rod end (51) attached to a roll rod (52);
- the roll rod (52) is attached rotationally to a first top side (53) of the cart basket (1);
- the flexible cover (50) includes a handle end (54) with an end stiffener (55) that is attachable to a second top side (56) of the cart basket (1) for covering the cart basket (1) and desired contents thereof with a length of the flexible cover (50) that is unrolled from the roll rod (52) and positioned intermediate the first-top side (53) and the second top side (56) selectively;
- at least one stair-climber incline (14) extended slantingly downward and rearward from intermediate a front of the bottom (6) and the axles (9) to beneath an axis of the axles (9) predeterminedly;
- at least one front support (15) extended downwardly from proximate the front of the bottom (6) for cooperating with the first-side wheel (7) and the second-side wheel (8) in supporting the cart basket (1) in a predeterminedly horizontal orientation when the household and shopping laundry cart is on a horizontal surface;
- the front support (15) includes a pivotal support (48) having predetermined forward pivot to a forward-slant stop (49) and rearward pivot to horizontality;
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- the cart basket (1) includes a laundry basket articulated to contain a class of items that include a predetermined washer load of laundry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.