Side discharge trash container
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsEdward M. Bullard, Paul E. Viscontini
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Abstract
A trash container for the storage and ready removal of filled disposable garbage bags and receptacles or the like from a side of the container. The trash container is of an essentially frusto-conical configuration narrowing towards an upper end and incorporating an opening or top aperture for the inserton of filled garbage bags or similar refuse, and in which at least one of the upwardly converging container sidewalls includes a wall portion which is pivotably openable so as to enable the discharge of the trash container contents through a side thereof in its lower region.
Claims6
A trash container for the storage and discharge of filled disposable garbage bags and refuse, said container having a generally rigid wall structure including a bottom wall, converging sidewalls extending upwardly from juncture with the edges of said bottom wall so as to form a frusto-conical sidewall structure;
- parallel wall portions extending upwardly from the upper ends of said sidewalls to form a top inlet aperture at the upper end of said trash container for the insertion therein of filled disposable garbage bags;
- a lid hingedly connected to one upper edge of the upper wall portion of said container to facilitate closing said aperture;
- and at least one of said converging sidewalls having a wall portion hingedly connected with an adjacent converging sidewall so as to enable pivotal opening of said wall portion providing for side discharge of said filled disposable garbage bags from said container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.