Patent ID: 7185898

Claim:
A load carrier for a wheeled cart ( 10 ) that has a handle ( 12 ) on the top rear of the cart for pushing the cart, has a basket ( 11 ) on the cart with a front wall ( 18 ) furthest from the handle, the front wall of the basket having a thickness and consisting of a mesh of adjacent, identical square holes arranged in parallel rows, the load carrier assisting in carrying loads that are too long to fit in the basket, the load carrier comprising: a first and a second member ( 15 a , 15 b ) that are identical, are spaced from each other and are each fastened to the top of the cart nearest the handle, the first and a second members projecting upward and extending above the handle; a third and a fourth member ( 16 a , 16 b ) that are identical and are each fastened to the front wall of the cart; wherein the third and fourth members are each elongated, each has a body ( 23 ) that is pivotally connected to the third and fourth members, each has an extension ( 25 ) having a first and a second end and the first end is connected to the body, the extension has a length equal to the thickness of the front wall of the basket and the extension is passable through the square holes through the front wall of the basket, and a square shaped head ( 24 ) is attached to the second end of the extension spaced from the body with the square shaped head having square side dimensions only slightly smaller than the size of the square holes through the front wall of the basket, wherein to fasten the third and fourth members to the front wall of the basket they are each positioned at an angle other than vertical so their square shaped head is aligned with and can pass through a square hole through the front wall of the basket, and the third and fourth members are then rotated to be vertical which locks them to the front wall of the basket, and the third and fourth members are spaced from each other, and a fifth member ( 16 c ) that is fastened to the third and the fourth members after they are attached to the front wall of the basket and are vertically oriented to provide a generally horizontal surface that extends above the top of the front wall of the basket, and when a load that is too long to fit in the basket is placed on top of the cart it sits generally level on top of the fifth member and the handle of the cart.