Unarco Industries, Inc.

Taft O'Quin

Val-Jean Duchene

Nicholas K Dietzel

Leslee Bottoms

A shopping cart has a wire basket, which comprises generally horizontal and generally vertical wires defining two side walls, defining a front wall, and defining multiple apertures in each of the side and front walls, and in which the front wall meets each of the side walls along a generally vertical front corner. A bumper, which is installed on the wire basket, along the front corner, has an elongate body, which wraps around the front corner and which has two lateral edges. Along a lower portion of each lateral edge, the bumper has a wing projecting into at least one of the apertures of the side and front walls. The wing has a recess, which accommodates a given one of the horizontal wires of the wire basket, and portions of the wing project into apertures above and below the given one of the horizontal wires.

Shopping cart bumper

In a shopping cart, which is nestable with similar carts, a transverse extending member bridges two longitudinally extending members, each mounting a cam-engaging member. Two cams are mounted to the transversely extending members. When engaged by the cam-engaging members of a following cart being nested into the shopping cart, the cams lift a back end of the shopping cart, so as to lift rear casters of the shopping cart.

Shopping cart having caster lift

A shopping cart chassis is provided with at least one tubular frame member. At least a first part of the length of the frame member has a wall with a hollow cylindrical configuration defining an annular transverse cross-section. At least a second part of the length of frame member has a wall with a hollow configuration defining an elongate transverse cross-section having a longer dimension and a shorter dimension. A second part of the frame member is oriented so that the longer dimension of the elongate transverse cross-section is generally parallel to the direction of the force of gravity when the shopping cart is in its normal use orientation.

Shopping cart chassis

In a shopping cart comprising a rear gate, which has two leg openings, and a child seat, which comprises a seat base, a seat back, and a seat panel, the seat base includes a cupholder, which is covered when the seat panel is pivoted to a position wherein the seat panel covers the seat base but not when the seat panel is pivoted to a position wherein the seat panel rests against the rear gate and covers the leg openings.

Shopping cart having cupholder in seat base

A shopping cart, which is nestable with a similar cart preceding it for storage, comprises a wheeled chassis, a handle structure, a basket having a front wall, a bottom wall, and two side walls, and a rear gate mounted so as to be pivotable. When the basket of the shopping cart is pushed into the basket of the preceding cart, the rear gate of the preceding cart is pivoted into an elevated position. In the elevated position, unless the rear gate of the preceding cart rests on the upper edges of both side walls of the basket being pushed thereinto, the rear gate of the preceding cart rests on the upper edge of one side wall of the basket being pushed thereinto but one corner of the rear gate of the preceding cart, near the side wall that is opposite, can drop into the basket of the shopping cart. Each side wall of the basket of the shopping cart has a ledge, which projects laterally into the basket from such side wall and which has an inclined surface adapted to engage such a corner dropping into the basket of the shopping cart and to guide the engaged corner upwardly along the inclined surface as the basket of the shopping cart is pulled from the basket of the preceding cart. In a preferred embodiment, the front, bottom, and side walls of the basket of the shopping cart are molded from a polymeric material and the inclined ledge projecting from each side wall is molded unitarily with such side wall.

Shopping cart having gate-guiding ledges

A wheeled conveyance, such as a shopping cart, a luggage cart, a utility cart, a wheel chair, a gurney, or a tricycle has a metal chassis and wheels, which support the metal chassis above a supporting surface, such as a floor surface, and which may isolate the metal chassis electrically from the supporting surface. The metal chassis is grounded to the supporting surface by an elongate, flexible member, which is made from a non-metallic, static-dissipative material, such as a polyvinyl chloride, and which is arranged to drag along the supporting surface when the wheeled conveyance is moved along the supporting surface. Each wheel has an axle, on which such wheel is rotatable, and the elongate member can be mechanically and electrically connected to the axle of one of the wheels.

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Inola, OK, United States of America

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