Patent ID: 6966566

Claim:
A shopping cart comprising a handle structure, which includes two handle uprights, a rear gate, which is mounted to the handle uprights so as to be pivotable between a lowered position for usage of the shopping cart and a raised position for nesting of a similar cart into the shopping cart, and a child seat, for which the rear gate has two leg openings, wherein the child seat comprises a seat base, which is mounted to the rear gate so as to be pivotable, when the rear gate is pivoted to the lowered position, between a usage position wherein the seat base projects frontwardly from the rear gate, below the leg openings, and a storage position, a seat back, which is mounted to the rear gate so as to be pivotable conjointly wit the seat base, when the rear gate is pivoted to the lowered position, between a pivoted position corresponding to the usage position of the seat base and a pivoted position corresponding to the storage position of the seat base, and a seat panel, which is mounted to the seat base so as to be pivotable, when the rear gate is pivoted to the lowered position, the seat base is pivoted to the usage position of the seat base, and the seat back is pivoted to the pivoted position corresponding to the usage position of the seat base, between a covering position wherein the seat panel projects frontwardly and covers the seat base and a blocking position wherein the seat panel rests against the rear gate and blocks the leg openings, wherein the seat base includes a cupholder, which is covered by the seat panel when the seat panel is pivoted to the covering position but not when the seat panel is pivoted to the blocking position, and wherein the seat base comprises welded wires, which include one or more wires of the cupholder, the one or more wires of the cupholder projecting downwardly below the seat base when the seat base is pivoted to the usage position.