Multi-functional mailbox
OwnerTerry E. Hansoninventor
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Abstract
A multi-functional mailbox having a mail housing. The mail housing has a recessed flat bottom and an arched top. A mail housing lid is hingedly secured to the open first end of the mail housing. The device has a newspaper housing dimensioned to be received within a recessed bottom of the mail housing. A newspaper housing lid is hingedly secured to the newspaper housing. A sliding indicator means is secured within the newspaper housing lid. The sliding indicator means has a first position indicating the presence of mail and a second position indicating the absence of mail.
Claims7
A new and improved mailbox improvement comprising in combination:
- a mail housing having an open first end, a closed second end, an intermediate extent therebetween, the mail housing having a recessed flat bottom and an arced top, a right sidewall extending below the recessed flat bottom intermediate the open first end and the closed second end, a plurality of apertures formed along the right sidewall, a left sidewall extending below the recessed flat bottom intermediate the open first end and the closed second end, a plurality of apertures formed along the left sidewall;
- a mail housing lid hingedly secured to the open first end of the mail housing;
- a newspaper housing having an open first end, a closed second end, and an intermediate extent therebetween, the newspaper housing having a flat top and a flat bottom, a U-shaped piece having a first extension, a second extension, and a planar portion therebetween, the planar portion secured to the flat top of the newspaper housing, the U-shaped piece dimensioned to be received within the recessed bottom of the mail housing;
- fastening means securing the first extension of the U-shaped piece to the right sidewall of the mail housing and the second extension of the U-shaped piece to the left sidewall of the mail housing;
- a newspaper housing lid hingedly secured to the open first end of the newspaper housing;
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- a sliding indicator means secured within the newspaper housing lid, the sliding indicator means having a first position indicating the presence of mail and a second position indicating the absence of mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.