Masonry tool cleaning and storage device
OwnerDemetrio Frammartinoinventor
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Abstract
A masonry tool cleaning and storage device may include one or more bins capable of holding water and adapted to hang from the sides of a conventional wheel barrow. The bins may or may not have lids, which may or may not be attached to the bins. The device may optionally include a combined drying table and water return surface adapted to route water, e.g. dripping from wet tools, back to the water bins. The drying table may include a grated surface that is more or less horizontal while assembled in a working configuration. The grated surface may be above a downwardly sloped surface adapted to return water that has fallen through the grated surface back to the bins. When work is complete, the bins may be emptied of water, cleaned, and used for tool storage.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a bin, having a generally rectangular cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis, and adapted to retain liquids with two approximately equal and opposing short sides, two approximately equal and opposing long sides, and a bottom;
- a mounting bracket extending from a long side of the bin and running generally longitudinally along the long side the bin, the mounting bracket being adapted to support a vertical load and to anchor the bin in an upright position against a first horizontally applied load;
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- a lateral spacer extending from the same long side of the bin as the mounting bracket and vertically offset from the mounting bracket, the lateral spacer being adapted to cooperate with the mounting bracket to maintain the bin in an upright position against a second horizontally applied load oriented in a direction opposing that of the first horizontally applied load.
A device, comprising:
- an bin having a generally rectangular cross section and adapted to retain liquids with two approximately equal and opposing short sides, two approximately equal and opposing long sides, and a bottom;
- a mounting bracket having a vertical-load bearing member extending from one of the two approximately equal and opposing long sides of the bin, and a horizontal-load bearing member extending from the vertical-load bearing member at an interior angle between 85 and 95 degrees, the mounting bracket running longitudinally along the long side of the bin at an acute angle relative to a first top edge of the bin;
- a planar tab extending from the first top edge of the bin;
- a lateral spacer extending from the same long side of the bin as the mounting bracket and vertically offset from the mounting bracket, the lateral spacer being adapted to cooperate with the mounting bracket to maintain the bin in an upright position against a second horizontally applied load oriented in a direction opposing that of the first horizontally applied load;
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- a lid adapted to contact at least a first top edge and a second top edge of the bin, wherein an edge of the planar tab is adapted to engage an inside angle of a rim of the lid in a pivotal relation.
A device, comprising:
- an pair of bins each having a generally rectangular cross section and adapted to retain liquids with two approximately equal and opposing short sides, two approximately equal and opposing long sides, and a bottom;
- a mounting bracket having a vertical-load bearing member extending from one of the two approximately equal and opposing long sides of each of the bins, and a horizontal-load bearing member extending from the vertical-load bearing member at an interior angle between 85 and 95 degrees, the mounting bracket running longitudinally along the long side of each of the bins at an acute angle relative to a first top edge of each of the bins;
- a planar tab extending from the first top edge of each of the bins;
- a lateral spacer extending from the same long side of each of the bins as the mounting bracket and vertically offset from the mounting bracket, the lateral spacer being adapted to cooperate with the mounting bracket to maintain the bin in an upright position against a second horizontally applied load oriented in a direction opposing that of the first horizontally applied load;
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- a lid adapted to contact at least a first top edge and a second top edge of each of the bins, wherein an edge of the planar tab is adapted to engage an inside angle of a rim of the lid in a pivotal relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.