Land vehicles – Wheeled – Convertible
Patent
1991-08-23
1994-03-01
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Convertible
280643, 280648, 280 4718, 280 4726, 297191, 297217, B62B 708
Patent
active
052900495
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a foldable push chair which incorporates a shopping trolley or a shopping trolley which includes a foldable seat for transporting a child. Throughout this specification the term "push chair" will generally be used for the device when in erected or unfolded condition and chair/trolley for the device in its collapsed condition.
It is known to provide a carrier on a foldable push chair on or in which goods (such as shopping) can be transported. However in some known designs, collapsing the push chair, to locate the push chair on a public service vehicle or car, interferes with the carrier's function to such an extent that removal of goods on or in the carrier is an essential prerequisite to collapsing the push chair. If a young child has been sitting in the push chair, controlling the child during the collapsing operation further complicates the operation. One example of this type of push chair is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,248,443 which discloses a foldable push chair that incorporates a flexible goods' container which is available to transport goods behind a back of the seat of the push chair when the latter is fully erected for use. However when the push chair of U.S. Pat. No. 4,248,443 is folded-up, not only is the goods' container not available for transport of the goods it contained, but the wheels are no longer available to provide wheeled transport.
GB-A-990272 discloses a foldable wheeled pushcart which can be set into a first erected use mode in which a seat is provided between front and rear frame parts, into a second erected use mode in which a goods' container is provided between the said frame parts and into a folded-up mode in which the front and rear frame parts close up one towards the other. In its folded-up mode the aforesaid goods' container is unusable for the transport of goods although small foldable front and rear pockets can still be used for the transport of small articles.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,577,579 discloses a collapsible push cart which has a shopping bag that can be hooked on the frame of the cart and is designed so that it can continue to be used as a shopping bag in the collapsed condition of the cart.
It is also known to provide child seating facilities in shopping trolleys (see for example U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,116,456 and 4,682,782), but these trolleys are not capable of being folded-up to facilitate transport in a vehicle.
The present invention seeks to provide an improved foldable push chair/shopping trolley which reduces the problem of collapsing the chair in the presence of transported goods and thus overcomes the problems of most prior art designs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention there is provided a foldable push chair which incorporates a shopping trolley and comprises a frame having front and rear wheels, a seat for a child, support means for a goods' container and a handle for controlled wheeling of the push chair, the frame being foldable into a collapsed condition to reduce the separation between front and rear wheels so that the front/rear dimension of the chair/trolley is reduced, characterised in that in the collapsed condition of the chair/trolley the seat is folded up at the front of the support means and the handle is folded down to the rear of the support means, an auxiliary handle being provided for controlled wheeling of the chair/trolley on the reduced separation front/rear wheels with the goods' container still accessible for transport of shopping.
Conveniently the support means is a plate-like member provided with the auxiliary handle at its upper end. Such a plate-like member can directly provide the chair back or a padded chair back can be attached thereto or formed thereon. Such a plate-like member can define the front wall and base of a shopping box or other rigid goods' container or can provide stiffening for the front and base of a flexible shopping bag or the like.
Suitably a seat of the chair for the child is pivotally supported on a pair of front legs of the frame which carry the front whe
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Cocks David C.
Crisp David J.
Crisp and Wilson Limited
Focarino Margaret A.
Mar Michael
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