Patent ID: 11938989
Assignee: ZIBRA, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 16:
17. A method of using a shopping cart that comprises a base and a seatback connected to the base and movable relative to the base between a retracted position, in which a sitting area of the child seat is covered by the seatback, and an extended position, in which the sitting area of the child seat is exposed for sitting and in which the seatback serves to support a back of a child when sitting in the sitting area, wherein the seatback comprises a recess located in a surface of the seatback that faces the sitting area when the seatback is in the retracted position, within which recess a seatbelt module is received, the seatbelt module comprising a seatbelt for restraint of a child when seated in the sitting area, and wherein the seat further comprises a gate connected to the seatback and movable relative to the seatback between a retracted position, in which the gate is flush with a surface of the seatback, and an extended position, in which the gate extends in a generally upright manner from the surface of the seatback, the method comprising, when using the cart to seat a child, moving the gate to its retracted position, moving the seatback to its extended position, placing a child in the sitting area such that legs of the child extend through leg openings in the cart and a back of the child rests against the seatback in its extended position, and restraining the child with the seatbelt; and
when using the cart to contain items and not seat a child, moving the seatback to its retracted position and moving the gate to its extended position to inhibit items contained in the cart from falling through the leg openings in the cart.