Stackable shopping basket
AssigneeAraven, S.L.
InventorsIsabel Gimeno Verdejo, Jose Antonio Puertolas Salanova
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Abstract
The invention relates to a shopping basket in self service stores and/or supermarkets, of the type of those which can be stacked and incorporate rolling means (5) at their base and a drive handle (4) for transporting them in an inclined manner on the floor in which said drive handle (4) is located on a plane different from the load application plane, and further having its corners reinforced by means of bends (3) defining a plane (6) on which the side branches (7) of said handle (4) slide with the aid of guide means.
Claims12
A stackable shopping basket for use in a self-service store or supermarket comprising, a tapered body having a plurality of vertical side faces and a base, the rearward face defining a load plane, a drive handle with side branches located adjacent the rearward face, and rolling means adjacent the base for its movement in an inclined manner with regard to the floor, the drive handle being located on a plane different from the load plane, the corners of the body extending vertically along the rearward face being reinforced by means of inward bends that define a plane parallel to the plane of the handle on which the side branches of said handle slide, and the corners of the body extending vertically along the forward face being reinforced by bends of similar shape,
- wherein the basket is nestable with a like basket in a first and a second position, the first position being one in which the rearward faces of the baskets are proximate to each other, the second position being one in which the rearward faces of the baskets are distal to each other.
A stackable shopping basket according to any one of the previous claims, further comprising guide means for the side branches of the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.