Mail box tray
OwnerHomer A. Donaldsoninventor
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Abstract
A tray for mail boxes, especially those of the rural type, wherein the tray rests upon the mail box bottom and receives mail and other contents placed within the mail box. The tray includes finger grasping means adjacent the mail box door whereby the tray may be partially pulled from the box making the contents readily accessible and eliminating the necessity to reach deeply into the mail box cavity. Means are defined on the tray for holding letters to be picked up in a convenient position, and for supporting coins to pay postage due.
Claims3
A mail box tray for slidable support within a mail box to facilitate access to the mail box contents comprising, a tray body of a molded homogeneous synthetic plastic material having a bottom panel and lateral side walls, a front wall and a rear wall extending upwardly from said bottom panel, said rear wall having a greater vertical dimension than that of said front wall, said side walls intersecting said rear and front walls and having a vertical dimension at the intersection with said walls substantially corresponding to that of the intersected wall whereby the vertical dimension of said side walls decreases from said rear wall to said front wall, a first ridge homogeneously extending upwardly from said bottom panel in spaced parallel relationship to one of said side walls for positioning the edge of an envelope upon said bottom panel, and a second ridge homogeneously extending upwardly from said bottom panel in spaced parallel relationship to said front wall defining a coin receiving slot with said front wall, the exterior of said bottom panel and side walls being free of protuberances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.