Claims
- 1. A shopping cart, which is nestable into a preceding, similarly constructed cart and into which a following, similarly constructed cart is nestable,
wherein the shopping cart comprises a chassis, which has a front end and a back end, which has front and rear casters including two rear, transversely spaced casters, and which has two generally longitudinal members, each extending along one side of the chassis, between the front and back ends of the chassis, wherein the shopping cart comprises a camming means mounted on the chassis and a transversely extending member mounted to the longitudinal members, the transversely extending member bridging the generally longitudinal members, and wherein the transversely extending member is adapted to be upwardly cammed by the camming means of a following, similarly constructed cart, which is being nested into the shopping cart, so as to elevate the rear casters of the shopping cart.
- 2. The shopping cart of claim 1 wherein the camming means comprises two camming elements, each being mounted on one of the longitudinally extending members.
- 3. The shopping cart of claim 2 wherein the chassis comprises two generally upright members, each having a lower portion mounted to one of the longitudinally extending members, the camming elements being mounted where the lower portions of the generally upright members are mounted to the longitudinally extending members.
- 4. The shopping cart of claim 3 wherein each camming member has a socket opening backwardly and wherein the lower portion of each of the generally upright members is curved downwardly and frontwardly and is fitted snugly into the socket of a respective one of the camming elements.
- 5. The shopping cart of claim 4 wherein each camming element has a plug, which fits snugly into the lower portion of a respective one of the generally upright members, when the lower portion of the respective one of the generally upright members is fitted snugly into the socket of said camming element.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/235,736, which was filed on Sep. 5, 2002, and the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Continuation in Parts (1)
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Number |
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Parent |
10235736 |
Sep 2002 |
US |
Child |
10656711 |
Sep 2003 |
US |