Liner retainer apparatus and method
OwnerRussell D. Culbertsoninventor
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Abstract
A liner retainer is provided for retaining the mouth of a flexible liner bag open and in position for receiving objects in the bag. The liner retainer includes a retainer member and a retainer channel connected to and extending around the perimeter of a deposit opening, the top opening of a trash receptacle, for example. A liner bag may be positioned with its mouth portion material tucked or otherwise inserted into the retainer channel and the retainer member is adapted to be inserted into the channel over the liner material to retain the material in the channel.
Claims32
A liner retainer for retaining the mouth of a flexible liner bag open and in position for receiving objects in the liner bag, the liner retainer comprising.
- retainer channel means for receiving the mouth portion of the liner bag, the retainer channel means being connected to and extending along at least a portion of the perimeter of a deposit opening and an opposing sides of the opening;
- retainer member means adpated to be received in the retainer channel means, over the mouth portion material of the liner bag received in the channel means, for retaining the mouth portion of the liner bag in the retainer channel means;
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- an excess channel portion at the bottom of the retainer channel means, into which the retainer member means does not extend when the retainer member means is fully received in the retainer channel means, the excess channel portion being adapted to receive excess liner mouth material so that said excess material does not substantially interfere with the fit of the retainer member means in the retainer channel means.
A waste receptacle comprising:
- at least one waste receptacle compartment adapted for being lined with a liner bag made entirely of a thin flexible material and having a liner mouth through which trash may be deposited into the liner bag;
- a deposit opening in the top of each waste receptacle compartment through which trash may be deposited into the respective waste receptacle compartment;
- retainer channel means, connected to and extending around substantially the entire perimeter of each deposit opening, for receiving the mouth portion of the liner bag lining each compartment, the retainer channel means having a substantially V-shaped portion being defined between an inner channel wall and an outer channel wall which are connected together at a lower channel point at the receptacle deposit opening and diverge at a substantially acute angle toward a channel top opening;
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- retainer member means for each retainer channel means, each retainer member means being adapted to be received in a different retainer channel means through the channel top opening and over the mouth portion of the liner bag received in the retainer channel means, for retaining the mouth portion material in the retainer channel means and for substantially covering the channel top opening so that waste material may not collect in the retainer channel means as the lined waste receptacle is filled.
A method for retaining a flexible liner bag in position for receiving trash, the liner bag having a liner mouth opening through which trash may be deposited in the liner bag, the method comprising the steps of:
- positioning the liner mouth portion material in a liner retainer channel;
- inserting retainer member means into the liner retainer channel over the liner mouth portion material received in the channel thereby pressing substantially all of the liner mouth portion material into the channel and substantially covering the liner retainer channel;
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- retaining the retainer member means in the channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.