Ex parte CHALFANT - Page 2




          Appeal No. 2000-0179                                                        
          Application No. 08/923,774                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellant's invention relates to a shopping cart                   
          having a basket frame and first and second seat sections                    
          positioned in tandem one in front of the other, each of the                 
          sections being pivotally mounted to the basket frame in such a              
          manner as to permit the section to be pivoted upwardly to a                 
          substantially horizontal position so that the cart may receive              
          a portion of a second cart for purposes of storage (claims 9-               
          17).  Another aspect of appellant's invention is that the                   
          first and second seat sections each include a rear wall                     
          pivotally mounted on vertical support rods extending upward                 
          along opposite sides of the basket frame, a back support                    
          pivotally connected to the rear wall and a seat bottom                      
          pivotally mounted to the rear wall and slidably connected to                
          the back support, wherein the seat section may be alternately               
          placed into a use position extending generally horizontally                 
          between the rear wall and back support and a collapsed                      
          position wherein the seat bottom and back support are                       
          collapsed in a generally vertical position against the rear                 




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