US 4,775,066 AGranted

In ground trash receptacle

OwnerK. Eugen Keppelerinventor

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Abstract

An outdoor receptacle for temporarily storing disposable and reclaimable trash at a collection site prior to the trash being picked up. The receptacle includes a rectangular open top container that is partially buried in the ground and which has a cover hinged thereon that closes over the vertical side walls of the container to provide a weather tight structure. An outwardly extended ground rail is secured to the outside of the container that is at about ground level. An anchor is secured to the bottom wall of the container which acts in concert with the ground rail to stabilize the container in the ground. The interior of the container is compartmentized to segregate disposable and reclaimable waste products. The cover is normally locked to the container in a closed condition so that it can only be opened by the user and the trash collector.

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Dependent claims

An outdoor trash receptacle that is partially buried in soil for temporarily storing disposable and reclaimable waste prior to collection that includes,

a rectangular shaped, open topped container having vertically disposed back, front and end walls and a horizontally disposed bottom wall,
an outwardly extended ground rail surrounding the vertical walls of said container at about ground level,
a top cover hinged to the back wall of the container having a downwardly turned skirt about its periphery that closes over the vertical walls of the container to provide a weather tight closure therewith,
anchor means downwardly disposed from the bottom wall of the container for securing the container in the soil,
partition means for dividing the interior of the container into a plurality of compartments for separating disposable waste products from reclaimable solid waste products, and
locking means for releasably securing the cover to the container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.