Lawn bag holder
OwnerTom Horaninventor
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Abstract
A versatile folding lawn bag holder usable on a grassy lawn to hold open a bag in an open horizontal position and which is also attachable to a rack rail on a wall in a utility room or garage to hold a plurality of bags in an open vertical position. The bag holder has a base platform with a front ramp for sweeping debris up into a lawn bag, and a pair of inwardly arched and hinged foldable arms holding the mouth of the lawn bag open. A pair of pins on each arcuate arm help to retain the lawn bag on the arcuate arms. A pair of blind bores on the bottom surface of the base platform which cooperate with knobs on the rack rail to hang the holder on a wall.
Claims9
A lawn bag holder comprising:
- a base platform having a flat bottom, an elongated front wedge-shaped ramp, a short rear wedge-shaped ramp, a flat central plateau disposed between the front ramp and the rear ramp, and two opposing sides;
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- a pair of segmented, articulated arcuate arms positioned on the opposing sides of the base platform proximate the central plateau;
- whereby the platform can be placed inside a mouth of a lawn bag with the arcuate arms holding the mouth open so that debris may be swept up the front ramp into the lawn bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.