Patent ID: 7270338
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: B62B

Abstract:
1. An insulating compartment for a given grocery cart having an open-topped basket comprising forwardly-tapering sidewalls spaced by a forwardly-upsloping bottom wall and which all terminate in a front wall as well as comprising a top-hung rear flap-panel which swings up when the nose of a like, trailing grocery cart's basket pushes inside from the rear to enter and dock inside the basket space of said given grocery cart such that the nose of said trailing grocery cart penetrates to a forward limit relative the bottom and sidewalls of said given grocery cart, said insulating compartment comprising: an insulating insert for the given grocery cart's basket which is sized and arranged for occupying a front margin of the basket thereof and which comprises a front wall to match flush against substantial portions of the inside of the given grocery cart's basket's front wall, and having abbreviated rearwardly-flaring sidewalls and rearwardly-downsloping bottom wall which terminate in respective rear edges that are rearward of said forward limit of the nose of a docking trailing grocery cart's basket, and which match flush against front margins of the given grocery cart's basket's sidewalls and bottom wall, said insulating insert defining a compartment space bounded by the bottom wall, front wall, two sidewalls thereof as well as a vertical plane containing the respective rear edges of said bottom and side walls thereof whereby said compartment space provides insulation service to cold or frozen food and beverage merchandise during the duration of a customer's shopping trip at a grocery store; wherein absent from said insulating insert is any rear wall, not even a rudimentary one nor else any other means of interference along the bottom wall's rear edge so as to: