Patent ID: 7219901

Claim:
For a shopping cart having a basket, which has walls and which has an upper edge, a cupholder, which is mountable to one of the walls, via an outer mounting plate and an inner mounting plate, wherein the cupholder comprises a continuous wire having two lowermost portions, at which the continuous wire terminates and between and to which the one of the outer and inner mounting plates is mounted, two intermediate portions, which define a cup-supporting level and which are arranged so as to extend over and across the upper edge of the basket when the cupholder is mounted to one of the walls, via the mounting plates, and an uppermost portion, which is shaped so as to embrace a cup being held by the cupholder, wherein each lowermost portion is connected to an associated one of the intermediate portions so as to position one end of the associated on of the intermediate portion above the basket and the other end thereof away from the basket.