Polymer plastic container for in-ground installations
OwnerGary McLACHLANinventor
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Abstract
A fibre-reinforced polymer container suitable for in-ground installation for use in storage, typically of trash and the like. The container having a generally cylindrical container body; an inner shell having a floor and parallel sidewalls, bonded to the container body and defining an access port at the top of container; and a carriage having a platform for supporting trash, moveable between a lower position in which trash is contained within the container and an upper position in which the platform is accessible via the access port.
Claims16
A polymer plastic container for in ground installations, comprising:
- a cylindrical polymer plastic outer shell having a peripheral circumferential sidewall and opposed end walls defining an interior cavity and a longitudinal axis, the outer shell having a rectangular opening through the sidewall;
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- a parallel-piped polymer plastic inner shell having a bottom and four sidewalls is positioned within the interior cavity and protruding in close fitting relation through the rectangular opening.
A container suitable for in-ground installation for use in storage of trash, the container comprising:
- a) a container body having a generally cylindrical exterior, with end walls and a longitudinal axis passing through the end walls, configured such that the cylindrical axis of rotation of the container body is intended to be generally horizontal when the container is installed in-ground;
- b) an inner shell having a floor and substantially parallel sidewalls, the sidewalls extending from within the container body to project through an opening at the top of the container body;
- c) the upper ends of the inner shell sidewalls defining an access port;
- d) the container body and inner shell made from a fibre-reinforced polymer, and bonded one to the other in the vicinity of the floor and in the vicinity of the opening through which the sidewalls project;
- e) a lid for overlying the access port;
- f) a carriage, disposed within the inner shell, for supporting trash;
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- g) means for moving the carriage between a lower position at which the carriage is proximate the floor and an upper position at which trash supported by the carriage is accessible via the access port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.