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US 5,967,355 AGranted
Trash receptacle including illuminated outer container
AssigneeA.L.R. Envirotech Inc.
InventorPaul-Henri Ragot
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AssigneeA.L.R. Envirotech Inc.
InventorPaul-Henri Ragot
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A novel and ergonomic trash receptacle comprises an outer container and an inner trash can. The outer container includes a box-like housing mounted on a pedestal and provided with a lockable closure with the trash can being received in the box-like housing and being in communication with the outside by way of gravity closing doors mounted on the closure such that garbage introduced in the closure through the doors thereof falls into the trash can. The closure can be unlocked and pivoted upwardly to allow city workers to remove and empty the inner trash can. The box-like housing includes a series of vertical side wall assemblies which are mounted one to the other by way of extruded posts provided at the corners of the box-like housing and adapted to slidably receive the side wall assemblies. Each side wall assembly comprises inner and outer panels and an intermediate advertisement sheet therebetween such that when the closure is removed and the locking bars unlocked, the side wall assemblies can be accessed, for instance, to change the advertisement sheet or for panel repair purposes. The inner and outer panels can be made of a translucent material with lighting units being mounted within the box-like housing and to the posts thereof for rearwardly illuminating the advertisement sheet by back-lighting.
A trash collection receptacle comprising an outer housing and an inner trash collection container located in said housing, said housing defining a trash receiving opening such that trash deposited therethrough is collected in said inner container, wherein said housing comprises a frame and panel assemblies adapted to be mounted thereto, said frame being made of at least two post means and of cross member means adapted to be assembled with said post means such as to form said frame, at least one of said panel assemblies being removable from said frame, said post means each defining a first set of vertical channels for removably receiving said panel assemblies, said post means provided at opposite edges of said at least one of said panel assemblies defining a second set of vertical channels for receiving the ends of at least a respective upper one of said cross member means to allow said at least one of said panel assemblies to be selectively removed from said frame without interference from said upper one of said cross member means.
A trash collection receptacle comprising an outer housing and an inner trash collection container located in said housing, said housing defining a trash receiving opening such that trash deposited therethrough is collected in said inner container, wherein said housing comprises a frame and at least one panel means mounted thereto, said frame being comprised of corner post means and cross member means assembled thereto, said panel means being at least partly translucent and defining at least one representation, lighting means being provided in said housing for illuminating by back-lighting said panel means such that said representation can be clearly viewed from outside of said housing, at least one of said corner post means defining an inwardly inner channel, wherein said lighting means are mounted to said inner channel of said at least one of said corner post means and inside said housing.
A housing comprising frame means and panel assemblies adapted to be mounted to said frame means, said frame means being made of at least two extruded post means and of cross member means adapted to be assembled with said post means such as to form said frame means, at least one of said panel assemblies being removable from said frame means, said post means each defining a first set of vertical channels for removably receiving said panel assemblies and a second set of vertical channels for receiving the ends of said cross member means to allow said at least one of said panel assemblies to be selectively removed from said frame means without interference from said upper one of said cross member means.
A trash collection receptacle comprising an outer housing and an inner trash collection container located in said housing, said housing defining a trash receiving opening such that trash deposited therethrough is collected in said inner container, wherein said housing comprises a frame and panel assemblies adapted to be mounted thereto, at least one of said panel assemblies being slidably engageable in opposed parallel channels defined in said frame from an open end of said channels until being limited in movement by said frame at a location of said channels remote from said open end whereat said at least one of said panel assemblies is functionally mounted to said housing, disengageably lockable elongated means being provided at said open end such as to extend, in a locked position, between said channels for preventing said at least one of said panel assemblies from being removed from said housing by slidable displacement thereof along said channels and through said open end.
A trash collection receptacle comprising an outer housing and an inner trash collection container located in said housing, said housing defining a trash receiving opening such that trash deposited therethrough is collected in said inner container, said housing comprising a frame and at least one panel means mounted thereto, said panel means being at least partly translucent and defining at least one representation, lighting means being mounted to said frame and within said housing for illuminating by back-lighting said panel means such that said representation can be viewed from outside of said housing, wherein at least one fire wall is provided in said housing such as to extend between said inner trash collection container and said lighting means.
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