Shopping cart
OwnerV. John Ondrasikinventor
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Abstract
A shopping cart has a wheeled base, a rear frame projecting upwardly from the rear end of the base with a handle at its upper end, a basket having a rear end secured to the frame and projecting forwardly from the frame at spacing above the base, and a fixed child seat secured to the rear frame. The basket is closed by a pivoted rear gate at its rear end. Two or more carts can be nested together by pushing the front wall of the basket of a first cart through the rear frame beneath the fixed child seat of a second cart, simultaneously pivoting the rear gate upwardly to allow the basket of the first cart to enter the basket of the second cart. The side walls are inclined upwardly from the child seat to the front end of the basket.
Claims16
A shopping cart, comprising:
- a wheeled base having a front end and a rear end, the wheeled base of the cart having a pair of rear wheels and a second pair of wheels spaced forwardly from the rear wheels;
- a rear frame projecting upwardly from the rear end of the base and having a handle at its upper end;
- a single basket having a rear end secured to the frame and projecting forwardly from the frame at a spacing above the base, the basket having a front wall, spaced side walls, and a lower wall, and being open at its rear end;
- a fixed child seat secured to the cart adjacent the upper end of the rear frame so as to project forwardly from the rear frame;
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- a rear gate pivoted below the child seat to close the open rear end of the basket, whereby two or more carts can be nested together by pushing the front wall of the basket of a first cart through the rear frame beneath the fixed child seat of a second cart, simultaneously pivoting the rear gate upwardly to allow the basket of the first cart to enter the basket of the second cart.
A shopping cart, comprising:
- a wheeled base having a front end and a rear end;
- a rear frame projecting upwardly from the rear end of the base and having a handle at its upper end;
- a basket having a rear end secured to the frame and projecting forwardly from the frame at a spacing above the base, the basket having a front wall, spaced side walls, and a lower wall;
- each side wall having a first, raised portion extending from the rear end of the basket and having a forward end, a downward step extending downwardly from the forward end of The first, raised portion, and a second, downwardly stepped portion extending from the step to the front wall, the raised portion having a height greater than the downwardly stepped portion;
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- the downwardly stepped portion of each side wall having an upper rim which is inclined upwardly from the downward step to the front wall, whereby the step and The upwardly inclined rims together form a ledge for supporting an item of larger dimensions than the basket on said rims adjacent said step.
A nestable shopping cart, comprising:
- a wheeled base having a front end and a rear end, the base having an opening at the rear end to allow nesting of the base of a second, identical cart into the rear end of said wheeled base;
- a rear frame projecting upwardly from the rear end of the base and having a handle;
- a basket having a rear end secured to the rear frame and projecting forwardly from the rear frame at a spacing above the base, spaced side walls, and a front wall, the rear end of the basket having a one piece pivoted rear gate to allow nesting of the basket of a second cart into the rear end of the basket;
- the base of the cad having a pair of rear wheels and a pair of front wheels;
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- each side wall having an upper rim which is inclined upwardly from the rear end to the front wall of the basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.