Patent ID: 7121562

Claim:
A bumper kit for a shopping cart having a wire basket having generally horizontal and generally vertical wires, the generally horizontal and generally vertical wires defining two side walls, defining a front wall, and defining multiple apertures in each of the side and front walls between said generally vertical wires, the front wall meeting each of the side walls along a generally vertical corner, wherein the bumper kit comprising a bumper, which is adapted to be installed on the wire basket, along the front corner, comprises an elongate body, which is adapted to wrap around the front corner when the bumper is installed and which has two lateral edges, and 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 said at least 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.