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US 7,726,621 B1Granted
Container restraining device
OwnerTerry L. Dellingerinventor
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Abstract
There is provided a substantially planar, resilient base adapted for receiving the lower portion of a circular pail containing a material needing stirring or mixing. A raised annular wall on the upper surface of the planar base encircles the circumference of the lower portion of the bucket thereby retaining the bucket. One or more radially projecting wings provide pads upon which the feet of the person stirring the bucket contents may be placed further securing the base to the floor or other surface. The resilient nature of the upwardly projecting, bucket encircling wall allows accommodating buckets of varying diameters.
Claims15
A support base for a bucket comprising:
- a) a resilient, annular, continuous, upstanding wall having a tapered cross-sectional shape, said taper being substantially continuous from a top of said upstanding wall to a bottom thereof, said upstanding wall comprising a sloping inner, upright surface that is devoid of vertical, outward projections, a predetermined uniform height, and a continuous, flat, uninterrupted bottom surface devoid of annular concentric grooves and adapted for frictional interaction with an environmental supporting surface therebeneath, said upstanding wall defining and completely surrounding a central, substantially circular opening having a diameter substantially equal to a distance between two diametrically opposed points on said inner, upright surface of said upstanding wall and sized to accept a lower region of an outer vertical surface of a substantially cylindrical bucket having a predetermined outside diameter, thereby allowing frictional engagement of said lower region of said outer vertical surface of said bucket by and with said inner surface of said upstanding annular wall, said opening exposing said environmental supporting surface when said support base is resting thereupon and no bucket is retained thereby;
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- b) at least one substantially flat, horizontally oriented, planar wing having a substantially flat top surface being substantially parallel to a flat, uninterrupted bottom surface thereof and being rigidly affixed to and projecting radially outward from a lower, outside edge of said annular wall, said at least one wing having a continuous bottom surface devoid of depressions or grooves and being contiguous with said bottom surface of said annular wall, said continuous, uninterrupted bottom surface also being adapted for frictional interaction with said environmental supporting surface, said at least one wing being adapted to receive a human foot on an upper surface thereof, said upper surface being substantially parallel to said continuous bottom surface;
- whereby said bucket is restrained from rotary motion by said frictional engagement of said outer surface of said vertical surface of said bucket when contents thereof are stirred.
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A support base for a five gallon bucket comprising:
- a) a resilient, annular, upstanding wall having a tapered cross-sectional shape, said taper being substantially continuous from a top of said upstanding wall to a bottom thereof, said upstanding wall comprising a sloping inner upstanding surface that is devoid of vertical, outward projections, a predetermined uniform height and a continuous, flat uninterrupted, bottom surface devoid of annular concentric grooves, said upstanding wall defining and completely surrounding a central, substantially circular opening having a diameter substantially equal to a distance between two diametrically opposed points on said inner, upright surface of said upstanding wall and sized to accept a lower region of an outer vertical surface of said five gallon bucket;
- and b) three substantially horizontally oriented planar wings, each having a substantially flat top surface being substantially parallel to a flat, uninterrupted bottom surface thereof and being rigidly affixed to and projecting radially outward from a lower, outside edge of said annular wall, said three substantially horizontal wings having a continuous bottom surface devoid of depressions or grooves and being contiguous with said bottom surface of said annular wall, said three wings each being adapted to receive a human foot on an upper surface thereof, said upper surface being substantially parallel to said continuous bottom surface;
- whereby, rotation of said five gallon bucket is minimized as the contents thereof are stirred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.