GB2301313A - A shopping trolley attachment for shopping lists - Google Patents

Abstract

The attachment comprises a binder or hard-cover notebook for shopping lists which is releasably attachable to the shopping trolley by a strap that encircles a trolley strut. The strap and an adjacent portion of the binder or notebook include a non-slip material. The strap is releasably-secured by Velcro (RTM) fastening to the binder or notebook. The attachment may include a clipboard.

Description

AN ATTACHABLE/DETACHABLE PORTABLE SHOPPING LIST This invention relates to a an Attachable/Detachable Portable SHOPPING LIST.

Portable Shopping Lists are well known and usually consist of aids to memory such as drawings, sketches, ,cons and/or facilities for writing down the names and/or the descriptions of the items to be purchased. These aids may be contained in hard-cover book form, soft-cover book form, note-book form, loose-leaf binders or loose leaf sheets of paper, and so on.

These aids may be made from paper, wood, plastic and/or other materials and packaged in such a way that a package may or may not be sufficiently small to fit into the pockets. purses. hand-bags, shopping bags, shopping baskets and so on. of tne shopper.

Shopping Lists are usually free standing.

shopping Lists are used mainly to list items which the shopper wishes to or intends to b Ihese Shopping Lists are normally carried by the shopper to the shops and/or stores and these lists are then used as aids to memory during the acts of shopping The use of such artefacts tools and other aids in the practice of shopping have not become an integral part of shopping activities in all modern societies, but the use of Shopping Lists is widely adopted.

However, shoppers are handicapped in their ability to effectively use Shopping Lists, mark off the items purchased while continuing to maintain manipulation in some cases of the shopping trollies. In addition, in some cases.the shopper has to manipulate and read from and mark off items on the Shopping List while maintaining the supervision and appropriate discipline of young children.

This handicap results from constraints of having a portable Shopping List which is usually hand-held.

This invention design a Portable Attachable/Detachable j-ho,orina List in the form of a hard-cover Note-Book with internals suitable to contain lists @ shopping as desired 5 the shopper, but with an attachment facility which can be used to attach the Note-Book to the Shopping Trolley in such a way that it leaves the shopper free to manipulate the pping Trolley maintain discipline on the children @ ary tur@ @@ @@ @es of @ shopping Lists as appropriate, to mark off the items purchased, update the Shopping Lists and price-lists, if so required.

The Attachable/Detachable Shopping List is sufficiently portable to allow the user to have an easy and readily available access to taking the facility to the shop, the store and/or any other point of use. The Attachable/Detachable Shopping List may be carried by the shopper in the hand, the pocket, hand-bag, purse, and/or shopping bag.

This device is in two (2) parts, a Hard Cover or Housing and Infills which list the items for shopping. Such features are specific and not necessarily essential to this invention.

This device is oblong in shape although such a feature is specific arid not necessari y essential to this invention.

in fact the shape may be round square. cylindrical.

cubic oval. and/or multi-sided The first part as depicted in Figures 1A and 1B of this invention. is in the form of a Holder Housing and/or Cover @@@ may be screwed threaded or otherwise fitted to @e @e @@ @@ @@ dure 2. which form the actua which can be used for the Shopping Lists.

In the first place, the first part (Figures 1A and 1B) acts as a cover, Holder or Housing to that part which forms the Shopping Lists and which are described in Figure 2.

In the second place, the first part has a facility as depicted in Figures 1A and 1B, to allow this part to be attached to a shopping trolley or similar, or attached to any other body as appropriate or as may be used during or in preparation of a shopping activity.

The second part, the Shopping Lists, Figure 2 is fitted inside the first part, the main body which acts like a Holder. Housing and/or Hard-Cover, and as depicted in Figures 1A and 1B.

This second part which is not necessarily essential to the invention, may be a single page, single leaf, multi-page or multi-leaf. The page(s) and/or leaf/leaves may be left blank or may be pre-printed with the sectioned off with pre-printed items or classification of items to be purchased.

Thi- econd part may a attached t the first part by any method. for example. by using binders ips. pins. screw @uts d @lts. elastic bands and @@ A specific but not necessarily essential method of attaching the first part' to the second part' in this invention is to have holes in the second part through which the clips or binders in the first part, as shown in Figures 1A and 1B, may be inserted, closed and secured.

It is an essential feature of this invention that the first part can be attached to a Shopping Trolley or similar, or to some other body so that the shopper is left free to perform tasks other than holding, lifting, putting down, or in other ways handling the Shopping List at the expense of, exclusion and/or inconvenience of reading, marking off, checking, updating, or otherwise controlling the Shopping List. The device has the specific facility to be attached to or detached from another device. for example, a Shopping Trolley.

A specific but not necessarily essential feature of this invention is that the facility to enable the first part to be attached to the Shopping Trolley or similar is as shown in Fire lA and '.

One end of this strap is welded, moulded. sewn. clipped, stapled or in some other way temporarily or permanently attached to the main body of this first cart.

@ @ sl@ urface @@ @@@l@@i moulded. welded. glued @@ted. added on @@ some way to the inside surface of the strap and to be adjacent to the point of attachment of the strap to the main body of the first part, and as shown in Figures lA and 1B.

The strap must be of sufficient length to encircle a strut or other member of the shopping trolley or other body to which it is to be attached, with enough lenqth left over,

part of which a velcro or similar adhesive surface is attached.

On the main body, that is, the first part, just next to the point of attachment of the strap, a section of the surface of the main body is so designed that a non-slip surface is either built-in. moulded, pinned on, clipped on.

screwed-or. glued and/or pasted. This surface is similar to, that is. so designed to provide a similar facility to the inside surface of the strap, that is, to provide a non-slip surface.

In addition to this non-slip surface on the oiain body or first part there is a velcro surface adjacent to the non-slip surface and suitable to receive the velcro from the strap to form a secur- binding See Figures 1A nd 1B The @o@ @ surfaces both he nside of he strap and on the ma@ ood of the @@ part. which @ @ contact @@ @@ the shopp trolley @@ @@r wi the hold the main body in place, that is, the first part, hence holding the in-fill, that is, the Shopping List in place to leave the shopper free to perform other functions.

In addition, a sufficient length of the strap is left over after the non-slip surface and the velcro surface to allow for a finger grip to work the strap on and off as required.

That is, to allow for the device to be worked on and off, to be attached and detached.

Another specific but not necessarily essential feature of this device is that the main body, that is, the first part, which act as an enclosure, cover or housing to the Shopping Lists, may be folded over and closed in such a way to form a closed book, thus offering some protection and privacy t the Shopping Lists as shown in Figures 1A.

Other items which may be included as in-fills' in the cover or ousina are note-paper. calender. writing implement. electronic arjd/or mechanical calculators.

The inclus ion o;- otherwise of these other items is specific and not necessarily essential to this invention.

FIGURES Referring to the drawings the Attachable/Detachable Portable Shopping List: FIGURE 1A: COVER CLOSED WITH ATTACHABLE DEVICE FIGURE 1B: COVER OPEN WITH ATTACHABLE DEVICE FIGURE 2 : INFILL/INTERNALS In order to remove or fit the Infill/Internals Figure 2 to the COVER (Figures 1A and 1B) simply open the Cover, open the clips shown and insert the infill/Internals. Close the clips.

The combination of Figures 1A. 1B and 2 COVER and INFILLS respectively form the Attachable/Detachable Portable Shopping List as shown.

Tn order to use this device simply enter the items to be purchased on the Infills as appropriate. take the device to the shop super-market Open the facility for attachment la@e @@ @@@ @ on the shopping trolley an appropiate.

close the facility around the strut and seal the device into place using the Velcro and non-slip surfaces provided.

Claims (6)

1 An Attachable/Detachable Portable device.

This comprises a Housing or Cover which forms the main body and Infills which provide the facility for writing out Shopping Lists.

2. 3 arid 4 but which may be used in pat. or whole.

for other activities such as Stock-Taking.

6 An Attachable/Detachable Portable device as claimed in Claims 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, but one which may be permanently attached to the other device such as the Shopping Trolley.

7 An Attachable/Detachable Portable Device as claimed in Claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 above but which can be carried independently in whole or in part or clipped by any attachment to any other object or to itself or attached by any adhesive matter to any other object or to itself whether singly or in any combination of any of the Figures 1A, 1B and/or

3.

8 An Attachable/Detachable Portable Device as claimed in Claims 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 but which may be mechanically operated.

An Attachable/Detachable Portable Device as claimed in Claim 1, 2 2

4.

5.

6. 7 and 8 but which may be elect aptly operated.

10 An Attachable/Detachable Portable Device as claimed in C aims 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9 but which may be electronically oper

2 An Attachable/Detachable Portable device as claimed in Claim 1, and which forms the Organised Method of preparing and monitoring Shopping Lists which may be used as temporary or permanent records and/or Organisers.

3 An Attachable/Detachable Portable device as claimed in Claims 1 and 2 and which may be in the form of a Clip-Board.

4 An Attachable/Detachable Portable device as claimed in Claim 1. 2 and 3 which may be attached to any dei in order to leave the shoppers' hands free.

5 An Attachable/Detachable Portable Device which may be used t- other purposes such as claimed in Claims 1.