Patent ID: 7192035

Claim:
An improved shopping cart of the kind comprising a rigid cart frame, a base a handlebar and a basket, the basket located above the base and including a right side, a left side, a front, a rear and a bottom, the base connecting rotatable wheels in the front and rear of the cart, the handlebar extending from a top area of a frame rear, the improvement comprising: a pair of brackets rigidly attached to a left side and/or to a right side of the cart, wherein a first bracket of the pair of brackets is positioned towards a front of the cart and a second bracket of the pair of brackets is positioned towards a rear of the cart, the first and a second bracket of the pair of brackets attached on a same side of the cart, wherein each bracket of the pair of brackets comprises a rigid straight inner attachment slab rigidly attached to the basket, and comprises an L-shaped slab, the L-shaped slab including a horizontal portion for rigid attachment to the inner attachment slab at a first middle portion of said inner attachment slab, and including a vertical portion, said vertical portion having a free upper end, a U-shaped portion of the bracket formed by an intersection of said horizontal portion, a lower part of the vertical portion and a second middle portion of the straight inner attachment slab, the U-shaped portion for receiving objects, the second middle portion located above the first middle portion of the straight inner attachment slab, wherein each bracket of the pair of brackets is positioned so that the horizontal portion of each bracket is substantially collinear with each other and wherein each bracket of the pair of brackets is spaced apart sufficiently to allow an object having a length at least as long as a length of the cart to rest securely on the U-shaped portion of each bracket.