Patent ID: 7281719

Claim:
A shopping cart having a wire basket, which comprises generally horizontal and generally vertical wires defining a side wall, defining a front wall, and defining multiple apertures in each of the side and front walls, and in which the front wall meets the side wall along a generally vertical front corner, wherein the shopping cart comprises a bumper, which is adapted to be installed on the wire basket, along the front corner, wherein the bumper has an elongate body, which is adapted to wrap around the front corner when the bumper is installed and which has two lateral edges, wherein along at least one of the lateral edges, along a portion that becomes a lower portion of the same one of the lateral edges when the bumper is installed, the bumper has a wing which extends directly from one of the lateral edges, at the lower portion, which is adapted to project into at least one of the apertures of the side and front walls when the bumper is installed, and wherein the bumper is installed so that the elongate body wraps around the front corner and so that the wing extends into at least one of the apertures.