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US 8,025,174 B2Granted
Residential recycling bin
AssigneeOrbis Canada Limited
InventorBasil T. Martheenal
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Abstract
A recycling bin has a left and right sidewall, a base, and front wall; the front wall is lower than the other three walls, and when two bins are stacked in a 0° stacking configuration, the lower front wall of the lower bin and a sloped surface on the lower portion of the upper bin create a recyclable receiving chute that accepts recyclable materials freely. When in the stacked configuration, the upper bin is substantially securely held to the lower bin by a combination of a channel on the lower rear portion of the base that fits over a handle that rests upon on upper portion of the rear wall. Furthermore, a lower lip on the lower portion of the rear wall aligns with the handle and substantially prevents front-wards and backwards motion of the upper bin.
Claims29
A bin, comprising:
- a base, a left sidewall, a right sidewall, a front wall
- a rear wall, all fixedly connected to each other;
- a handle configured to be freely rotatable wherein the handle can be rotated to a resting position upon a top portion of the rear wall;
- a rear base groove, located at a rearward portion of the base;
- and
- a rear wall lower lip, located at a lowermost portion of the rear wall, wherein
- the left sidewall extends from the base at a first predetermined angle to the base,
- the right sidewall extends from the base at a second predetermined angle to the base,
- the front wall extends from the base at a third predetermined angle to the base, and
- the rear wall extends from the base at a fourth predetermined angle to the base, wherein
- each of the right sidewall and the left sidewall includes at least one respective inverted “V”-shaped liner retaining device configured to retain at least one liner, and wherein
- the rear base groove and the rear wall lower lip of a first upper bin are configured to jointly operate to fit about the handle of a substantially similar stacked second lower bin, when the handle of the second lower bin is in the resting position, to substantially prevent the first upper bin from sliding or moving forward with respect to the second lower bin.
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A bin, comprising:
- a base, a left sidewall, a right sidewall, a front wall;
- a rear wall, all fixedly connected to each other, wherein
- the left sidewall extends from the base at a first predetermined angle to the base,
- the right sidewall extends from the base at a second predetermined angle to the base,
- the front wall extends from the base at a third predetermined angle to the base, and
- the rear wall extends from the base at a fourth predetermined angle to the base, and wherein
- the rear wall includes a top open portion, such that a height of the rear wall is less than a height of the each of the left sidewall and right sidewall, and
- each of the left sidewall and the right sidewall includes an upper surface that is substantially co-planar with each other;
- and
- a handle, wherein the handle includes
- a liner retention portion,
- a first and second arm portion, and
- a first and second rotatable mounting portion, wherein
- the handle is configured to be placed in any one of a liner retention position, a resting position, and a bin carrying position, and rotatable through the positions, and wherein
- the liner retention portion is sized to fit within the top open portion of the rear wall when the handle is in the liner retention position, such that
- a substantially planar surface is formed by
- the upper surface of the left sidewall,
- the upper surface of the right sidewall, and
- an upper surface of the liner retention portion of the handle.
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A bin, comprising:
- a base, a left sidewall, a right sidewall, a front wall;
- a rear wall, all fixedly connected to each other, wherein
- the left sidewall extends from the base at a first predetermined angle to the base,
- the right sidewall extends from the base at a second predetermined angle to the base,
- the front wall extends from the base at a third predetermined angle to the base, and
- the rear wall extends from the base at a fourth predetermined angle to the base;
- a handle, wherein the handle is configured to be freely rotatable, and further wherein the handle can be rotated to a resting position upon a top portion of the rear wall;
- a rear base groove, located at a rearward portion of the base;
- and
- a rear wall lower lip, located at a lowermost portion of the rear wall, wherein
- the rear base groove and the rear wall lower lip of a first upper bin are configured to jointly operate to fit about the handle of a substantially similar stacked second lower bin, when the handle of the second lower bin is in the resting position, to substantially prevent the first upper bin from sliding or moving forward with respect to the second lower bin.
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