Recessed flexible wall refuse container
AssigneeSouthwestern Products, Inc.
InventorJoel E. Curtis
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Abstract
A community refuse receptacle including a flexible wall container secured at its open end in depending relation to the bottom surface of a cover overlying a well in the surface of the earth. The cover is provided with a central opening opened and closed by a hingedly connected lid. A pair of horizontally disposed tubular members are connected with the cover at opposing edges of the lid. The tubes receive lifting arms of a commercial waste disposal unit for lifting and inverting the container in an emptying action wherein the lid falls by gravity to an open position. Wall stabilizing, members depending from the lid, prevent collapse of the container when inverted.
Claims3
A concealed refuse container, comprising:
- a planar cover adapted to overly and close an upwardly open well formed in the surface of the earth,
- said cover having a central opening;
- lid means for normally closing the central opening;
- a pair of tubular members horizontally secured in overlying parallel spaced-apart relation to diametrically opposite edge portions of said cover;
- a flexible wall container depending from said cover and substantially filling the well,
- said container having a wall and having an open end communicating with the lid closed cover opening;
- container wall stabilizer means including vertically oriented elongated members substantially coextensive with the depth of the well depending from said cover for preventing inward collapse of said flexible wall when said cover is inverted;
- and,
- means horizontally interconnecting the ends of said elongated members opposite the cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.