Shopping cart having improved child seat

Abstract

In a shopping cart having a handle with two generally vertical portions and a generally horizontal portion and having a main basket, a child seat comprises a primary panel, a secondary panel, and a tertiary panel, each panel being made from welded wires. Defining a back panel of the main basket and a front panel of the child seat and being mounted pivotally to the generally vertical portions of the handle, the primary panel includes generally parallel wires spaced from one another by not more than about two inches. Defining a lower panel of the child seat, the secondary panel has a substantially open portion and a weight-supporting portion, which includes similarly spaced wires. Below where the primary panel is mounted pivotally to the handle, the secondary panel is mounted pivotally to the primary panel by several pivot wires extending from the secondary panel. Two pivot wires define two lateral edges of the secondary panel. Three pivot wires divide the substantially open portion into four leg openings for two seated children. Defining a back panel of the child seat, the tertiary panel includes similarly spaced wires and is mounted pivotally to the primary panel, below where the secondary panel is mounted pivotally thereto. The tertiary panel is engaged with the secondary panel so as to limit pivoting of the secondary panel upwardly or downwardly, at the second of the cross wires of the primary panel, and so as to limit pivoting of the tertiary panel away from the primary panel. The tertiary panel is disengageable from the secondary panel.