Antitheft mailbox
OwnerDon C. Shreveinventor
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Abstract
A mailbox comprising side and back walls, a top and a bottom secured together to form an enclosure, a front access door mounted to the front wall, a rear access door connected to the rear access door, and a tray accessible through the front access door and vertically adjustable.
Claims6
A mailbox comprising a front wall, a pair of side walls a back wall a bottom a top a front access door hingedly connected to an upper portion of the front wall, said front access door having flanges along its sides, a rear access door hingedly connected to said back wall and being disposed below said front access door, said rear access door having flanges along its sides, a first tray removably positioned on at least two flanges secured to the inner surfaces of said side walls, at least two additional flanges positioned below said two flanges for alternatively receiving said first tray said side walls having front edges a pair of vertically disposed channels disposed respectively inwardly of said front edges of said side walls and outwardly of said flanges of said front access door when said front access door is closed, and each of said channels being formed by a respective flange secured alone one edge thereof to the inside surface an the associated side wall and a free edge of the flange being spaced from said inside surface of the associated side wall, whereby any water entering around said front access door will flow down through said channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.