Container system for recycling beverage cans and the like
OwnerEmmanuel D. Lathourisinventor
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Abstract
A container system for recycling beverage cans and the like is provided, which consists of a plurality of containers, each having an upper flange and a contoured vertical inner surface, so as to permit the stacking of discarded beverage cans and the like one upon the other in side by side relationships and a stand for supporting each container by the upper flange one directly next to the other so as to take up minimum room in an orderly fashion. An inner disposable liner can than be removed with the discarded beverage cans contained therein while simultaneously preventing any remnants contained in any can from soiling the surrounding and appropriately sent to a proper recycling collection point.
Claims4
A container system for recycling beverage cans which comprises:
- a) a plurality of elongated containers each having an upper flange and a vertically inner extending wall having a contoured surface forming a horizontally extending row of vertically extending intercommunicable compartments each of the compartments being open at a top and of a size for obtaining through the top successive single beverage cans one by one, so as to stack the beverage cans one upon the other in closely adjacent columns in a side by side relationship;
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- b) a stand for supporting each said container by the upper flange with the containers in closely adjacent side by side relation in an orderly manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.