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US 4,286,515 AGranted
Compacting waste basket
AssigneeApura GmbH
InventorsManfred Baumann, Wolfgang Lohmann
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Abstract
A container closed by a lid for receiving and compacting waste paper includes a volume-occupying lid (3, 14) which fits inside the container (1, 13). The container (1, 13) defines a chamber large enough to accomodate individual pieces of waste to be deposited and compacted. The lid (3, 14) is retained in the container-closing position.
Claims2
A container for waste paper or the like, comprising:
- (a) waste compacting means in the form of a pivotally mounted lid which fits into said container and occupies a volume in said container large enough to accommodate individual waste pieces to be deposited and compacted in said container,
- (b) means for retaining said lid in the closed position,
- (c) a transversely extending and horizontally movable bar (4) located on a front side of the container (1) and operated by a clothed part of the body,
- (d) a pair of horizontal bars (5) individually disposed on opposite sides of the container, each horizontal bar extending outwardly at one end from a front wall of the container (9), and each horizontal bar being connected at said one end to said movable bar,
- (e) at least one articulated swinging arm (6, 7) pivotably connected at one end to a side wall of the container and at the other end to one of the horizontal bars (5), and
- (f) means connecting the other ends of said horizontal bars to said lid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.