Sanitary protective covers for shopping cart use
CA 2121079 A1 · Owner: Duer, Sandra Dee · Inventors: Duer, Sandra Dee
Overview
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A sanitary wrapping for covering the handles of shopping carts and other hand-propelled carts is provided. The wrapping may be provided either in the form of a portable wrapping which can be carried from store to store by the individual shopper and attached to the handles of such hand-propelled carts in the store by various adhesive arrangements along the edges or as disposable or recyclable coverings obtained and used in each store. The preferred fastening means takes the form of so-called Velcro fastened wrappers. Various improvements of the basic tubular sanitary protection can be provided, including the use of flaps on the ends to cover more of the handle and sides of the shopping cart, …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 12, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 12, 2014.
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