Device for locking a cover on a container and a container having such a device
AssigneeCompagnie Plastic Omnium
InventorPatrice Michelutti
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Abstract
A device for locking a cover on a container body, particularly a wheeled barrel, having a locking piece mounted to pivot between a position assuring the locking of the cover in the closed position on the body and an unlocking position releasing the cover, and an operating member cooperating with the locking piece to bring the locking piece to an unlocking position for a predetermined inclined position of the container. The operating member is a movable weight (13) mounted for guided sliding movement, and the locking piece (11) and the operating member (13) comprise cooperating projecting means (24, 23) arranged so that a translatory movement in one direction (20) of the operating member produces a rotation of the locking piece (11) in the unlocking direction (21).
Claims6
A compact device for locking a cover on a refuse container body, comprising a flat locking piece (11) mounted for pivoting between an initial position assuring the locking of the cover in the closed position of the container and an end position of unlocking for releasing the cover, and a flat operating means (13), which directly engages said locking piece in a common plane to bring the locking piece into an unlocked position at a predetermined inclined position of the container, wherein said operating means is a flat mobile weight (13) which is mounted for a guided translatory linear sliding movement in said common plane, and that said locking piece (11) and said operating means (13) include cooperating canted projecting means (24, 23) arranged in said common plane so that a linear translatory movement in one direction (20, 26)of the operating means produces a rotation of the locking piece (11) in the unlocking direction (21, 27).
A refuse container, which comprises a body and at least one cover, wherein it includes at least one gravity-activated compact device for locking the cover to the body, said device comprising a flat locking piece mounted for pivoting between a position assuring the locking of the cover in the closed position of the barrel and a position of unlocking for releasing the cover, and a flat operating means, which directly engages said locking piece in a common plane to bring the locking piece into an unlocked position at a predetermined inclined position of the container, said device characterized in that said operating means is a flat mobile weight (13), which is mounted for a guided translatory sliding movement in said common plane, and that said locking piece (11) and said operating means (13) include cooperating projecting means (24, 23) arranged so that a linear translatory movement in one direction (20, 26) of the operating means produces a rotation of the locking piece (11) in the unlocking direction (21, 27).
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