Patent ID: 7017920

Claim:
A shopping trolley, including: a basket, to receive articles, having a front wall interconnecting a pair of side walls; and wheels supporting the basket, wherein: the basket has a rear wall, inclined to the vertical, operably hingedly connected to side walls at or adjacent an upper end of the rear wall; and a floor, having a plurality of floor panels or sections hingedly interconnected to each other, extending transversely to the basket, and connected at a rearward end to the rear wall, the floor being substantially horizontal or downwardly inclined from the rearward end to a forward end, so arranged that: as the trolley is nested with a similar trolley, the rear wall is swung inwardly and upwardly to cause the floor to be swung upwardly to lie behind the front wall, where the floor panels of floor sections are hingedly movable to accommodate a change in angular relationship between the rear wall and the front wall.