US 7,243,884 B2 · Tilt-out laundry bag assembly

Abstract

A tilt-out laundry bag assembly for use with a bottom hinged cabinet door, comprises a suspension bracket subassembly and a laundry bag subassembly, the latter being suspended from the former. The suspension bracket subassembly includes a pair of parallel inter-bracket rods located in a plane perpendicular to the bottom hinged cabinet door. One of the rods is spaced from the mentioned door, while a second one is located in a position somewhat retracted from that door. The laundry bag subassembly comprises at least one laundry bag and a pair of hangers for each laundry bag. A laundry bag includes a pair of opposite flat panels and a pair of opposite folded panels. Each of the former has at the top a pair of loops for each hanger. Each hanger has a central grip for a hand and at each extremity a semi-circular configuration to fit with each one of the inter-bracket rods.

A tilt-out laundry bag assembly, adaptable to be used in conjunction with a bottom hinged cabinet door, comprising in combination a suspension bracket subassembly and a laundry bag subassembly, the latter being conveniently suspended from the former,

said suspension bracket subassembly including
a pair of spaced, parallel brackets;
a pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods perpendicular to said pair of spaced, parallel brackets and situated in a common plane;
and
an upper brace rod parallel to said pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods and located in a plane above the mentioned common plane;
each one of said pair of spaced, parallel brackets being adaptable for mount in a vertical position to said bottom hinged cabinet door, the latter being conventionally considered in a closed position, and being formed from an upper segment and a lower segment diverging from a common point at an acute angle, said upper segment being perpendicularly disposed with respect to said bottom hinged cabinet door and extending into an upper tie rod, an angle of 90° being formed between each said upper segment and each said upper tie rod, the latter incorporating a hole-provided flat zone;
said lower segment extending into a lower tie rod, an obtuse angle being formed between each said lower segment and each said lower tie rod, the latter also incorporating a zone such as said hole-provided flat zone, both said hole-provided flat zones of said upper and lower tie rods being coplanar;
said pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods and said upper segments being coplanar are used to interconnect, said pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods being placed as follows:
a first one being located proximate to said common point of said acute angle, while a second one being located in a position somewhat retracted from said bottom hinged cabinet door;
said upper brace rod being situated in the same plane with said upper tie rods and said upper brace rod being perpendicular to said upper tie rod and being used to connect the ends of the latter;
and
for load transfer of said tilt-out laundry bag assembly to said bottom hinged cabinet door, the former is attached to the latter with securing means inserted through said hole-provided flat zones;
said laundry bag subassembly comprising at least one laundry bag and a pair of hangers for each said laundry bag that includes, when collapsed,
a pair of opposite flat panels;
a pair of opposite folded panels, generally extendable inwardly between said pair of opposite flat panels;
and
a closed bottom;
each one of said pair of opposite flat panels being provided with a pair of loops secured adjacent an open top of said laundry bag;
each one of said pair of hangers generally having a rod structure with a generally elongated profile, provided with a central grip portion, adaptable to accommodate a user's hand, said central grip portion, being spaced upwardly from a remainder part of said hanger, does not interfere with said loops, said central grip portion being vertically oriented, the carrying of said laundry bag can be comfortably accomplished in one hand, each said hanger terminating at each end with a semi-circular configuration, so dimensioned as to self-align with a sliding fit on said pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods, said semi-circular configurations being open downwardly;
said hanger being easily inserted through said loops of each one of said pair of opposite flat panels, so that said central grip portion is situated between said loops and a removal of a said hanger from said loops being obviously, as easy as the insertion into the latter;
and
a distance between geometrical centers of said semi-circular configurations of said hanger being commensurable with a distance between longitudinal geometrical axes of said pair of spaced inter-bracket tie rods.

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