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US 5,170,903 AGranted
Pizza box refuse container
OwnerTony K. Fleminginventor
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Abstract
A refuse container mounts an auxiliary refuse container to a side wall of the refuse container, wherein the auxiliary container is defined by an internal cavity to complementarily receive a plurality of used pizza boxes of parallelepiped construction. Modifications of the invention include the auxiliary container formed of an expandable construction.
Claims8
A pizza box refuse container, comprising,
- a primary refuse container, the primary refuse container including a primary container side wall defined by a predetermined height, and
- a refuse container selectively mounted to the primary container side wall, the refuse container including an interior side wall spaced from and parallel an exterior side wall, and
- a first end wall spaced from and parallel a second end wall to define a rectilinear parallelepiped configuration, and
- a floor fixedly and orthogonally mounted to a lower terminal end portion defined by the interior side wall, exterior side wall, first end wall, and second end wall, and
- a rectilinear opening defined by a continuous coplanar top edge, and
- a plurality of spaced supports mounted to the interior side wall projecting above the interior side wall, with the spaced supports spaced apart a predetermined spacing and mounted to the primary container side wall at a primary container side wall top edge, and
- the supports are defined by U-shaped supports, including a first leg, each first leg is fixedly mounted to the interior side wall projecting orthogonally above the coplanar top edge, and each support includes a second leg spaced from and parallel to the first leg to include a connecting web orthogonally mounted between the first leg and second leg of each support, wherein a predetermined height defined between the connecting web and the floor is equal to or less than the predetermined length defined by the primary container side wall, and
- the floor includes a plurality of rows of fluid injection members projecting interiorly of the refuse container orthogonally through the floor, and
- the floor includes a plurality of internally threaded bores, and each fluid injection member includes a rigid externally threaded support base, and the internally threaded bore is arranged to complementarily receive the externally threaded support base, and a resilient and compressible reservoir housing is mounted to an upper terminal end of the externally threaded base, with the reservoir housing positioned interiorly of the refuse container adjacent the floor, and each reservoir housing including a rigid injection head mounted coaxially aligned with the support base to a top surface of the reservoir housing, and the injection head including a primary fluid conduit in fluid communication interiorly of the reservoir housing, and the fluid conduit including a plurality of fluid conduit ports directed laterally of the fluid conduit.
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