Patent ID: 9340223
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B62B

Claim Text:
1. A cinch for securing a train of nested shopping carts, the cinch comprising: a rope having a substantially-zero-stretch core, the rope having a first end coupled to an operator handle and a second end coupled to a first shopping-cart attachment member; a winch module having a free-rotating mode and a ratcheting mode, the winch module including: a second shopping-cart attachment member coupled to the winch housing, each of the first and second shopping-cart attachment members having a cart-handle coupler configured to securely couple to a handle of a shopping cart, wherein, when securely coupled to a shopping-cart handle, the shopping-cart attachment member substantially circumscribes the shopping-cart handle, wherein, to remove the shopping-cart attachment member from the shopping-cart handle, a latching gate is actuated.