SHOPPING CART WITH A DEVICE FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF GOODS ON A LOWER RACK THEREOF, AND A KIT FOR MODIFYING A SHOPPING CART

摘要

A shopping cart having a wheeled frame, an upperbasket, a lower rack, and a lower rack signalling device forindicating the presence of a load on the lower rack. Thelower rack signalling device has a pull member with one endsection being connected to the lower rack and another endsection connected to a flag assembly. The lower rack isbiased to an upper position when the rack is not loaded.When the lower rack is loaded, the weight of the load forcesthe lower rack to descend to a lower position therebylowering the pull member and causing a flag of the flagassembly to swing from a retracted position to a raisedposition, and a kit for modifying a shopping cart asdescribed.