Patent Application
20240123105
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The disclosure relates to shopping cart attachment devices and more particularly pertains to a new shopping cart attachment device for containing antibacterial gel for sanitizing a handle of the shopping cart.
The prior art relates to shopping cart cleaning assemblies and systems used for sanitizing a shopping cart before usage.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shopping cart including a frame, a basket mounted on the frame, a child seat, an elongated handle attached to the frame, and a plurality of wheels being rotatably coupled to the frame. A container has a lid positioned thereon for closing the container. A coupler is attached to the container and is releasably secures the container to the shopping cart. An antibacterial gel is positioned in the container and the antibacterial gel is positionable on the handle to sanitize the handle.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A coupler 38 is attached to the container 24 and is configured to releasably secure the container 24 to the shopping cart 12. The coupler 38 is attached to the back side 32 of the container 24 and may comprise a clip 40 configured to receive an upper edge 42 of the basket 16 such that the back side 32 abuts the basket 16. The clip 40 includes a base 44 and an arm 46. The base 44 of the clip 40 is positioned adjacent to the lid 26. The base 44 has an end 48 and the arm 46 protrudes downwardly from the end 48. The arm 46 is spaced from the back side 32 of the container 24 and defines an access space 50 where the shopping cart 12 may be inserted into the clip 40. The arm 46 may be biased toward the container 24 to frictionally engage the basket 16 or other areas of the shopping cart 12. A conventional antibacterial gel 52 is positioned in the container 24. The antibacterial gel 52 is positionable on the handle 20 with either a person's hand, cloth, tissue or the like.
In use, the coupler 38 of the container 24 secures to the shopping cart 12 by inserting the upper edge 42 of the basket 16 into the clip 40. The lid 26 is pivotally opened to provide access to the antibacterial gel 52. The antibacterial gel 52 is removable from the container 24 and may be applied to the handle 20 of the shopping cart 12 to sanitize the handle 20 of the shopping cart 12.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
