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US 4,371,092 AGranted
Waste container with permanent lid hold-down assemblies
OwnerLyndon M. Teagueinventor
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Abstract
A rectangularly shaped metallic container and sealed lid with permanent lid hold-down assemblies for use in disposal of low specific activity, minimally contaminated waste material. The hold-down assemblies give visual indications of the sealed condition of the container as they can only be removed or opened by total destruction after placed in holding position.
Claims7
A waste disposal container comprising
- (a) a metallic rectangularly spaced body having a bottom wall and side and end walls,
- (b) means for reinforcing the exposed edges of said side and end walls,
- (c) a metallic lid for said body,
- (d) means reinforcing the peripheral edge of said lid,
- (e) hold-down assemblies for the lid of the container including retaining members carried on the outer wall surface of said side and end walls,
- (f) locking members each having a portion engaging said reinforced edge of said lid and another portion in contact with said retaining means and being held thereby in facial abutment with confronting surfaces of said walls so as to secure said lid in a closing relationship on said body,
- (g) and means on said locking member cooperating with said retaining member for permanently securing said locking member in contact with said lid in said container for permanently securing said lid onto the container.
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A retainer assembly for securing the lid upon a waste container comprising:
- a retainer bracket mounted on the exposed wall surfaces of the waste container adjacent the open top thereof,
- a clip member having a first portion adapted to overlie an edge of the lid to be secured upon the waste container,
- a second portion extending angularly from said first portion and adapted to be received within said bracket in facial abutment with the adjacent side wall of the waste container, and
- means interlocking between said clip and said retainer bracket for securing said clip within said retaining bracket when said lid is placed upon the open top of the waste container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.