Patent ID: 6644524
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: A47G,B62B,Y10S

Abstract:
A shopping cart equipped with a cupholder and comprising structures movable between a first set of relative positions, in which a child seat is defined, and a second set of relative positions, in which the shopping cart is adapted to receive a nesting cart, the movable structures comprising a gate pivotable between a lowered position, in which the gate is positioned in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and an elevated position, in which the gate is positioned in the second set of relative positions of the movable structures,wherein the cupholder comprises a cup-holding body mounted to one of the movable structures so that the cup-holding body projects into the shopping cart, where the child seat is defined, in the first set of relative positions of the movable structures, and wherein the cup-holding body is made from a rubbery material enabling the cup-holding body to collapse to a collapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body, if empty, does not prevent nesting of a similar cart into the shopping cart equipped with the cupholder, and enabling the cup-holding body to return to an uncollapsed condition, in which the cup-holding body can hold a cup.