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US 5,050,762 AGranted
Trash container
OwnerDusaline Giorgiinventor
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The present invention provides a trash or garbage container having a main container portion and a closure element permanently mounted to the top of the main container portion. The closure element is selectively movable between an open and closed position, and is removably locked in place on the main container portion in its closed position. One end of the closure element, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, is hingedly mounted to the main container portion for pivoting the closure element between its opened and closed positions, and an opposed end of the closure element defines an opening which is adapted to engage a complimentary retaining element on the main container portion to removably lock the closure element in its closed position. Either the retaining element, or part or all of the main container, or the portion of the closure element defining the opening, or all of these elements, are formed from a flexible or resilient material so that the closure element may be maneuvered over the retaining element to selectively lock the closure in its closed position. The trash container is designed to require specific manual manipulations to open and close the closure element which cannot be performed by animals such as cats, raccoons, squirrels and skunks, which are known to scavenge trash containers to thereby render the container animal-proof when the closure element is locked on the main container portion.
A trash container adapted to prevent access to trash within the container by scavenger animals, said trash container comprising;
A trash container comprising:
A trash container adapted to prevent access to trash within the container by scavenger animals, said trash container comprising;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.