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US 9,248,962 B2Granted
Inflatable refuse containers and methods of use
OwnerWilliam J. Warreninventor
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Abstract
A trash container for holding trash may include a flexible first sidewall, a flexible second sidewall opposed and in a spaced relationship to the first sidewall to define a cavity, a bottom rigid wall connected to the flexible first sidewall and the flexible second sidewall to seal the cavity, and a top ring connected to the flexible first sidewall and the flexible second sidewall to seal the cavity.
Claims4
An inflatable container, comprising:
- four inner sidewalls, comprising:
- wherein a first two of the inner sidewalls are rectangular and joined together at a bottom apex to form a lower portion of the inflatable container, the first two of the inner sidewalls angling upwardly away from one another;
- and
- wherein a second two of the inner sidewalls are triangular and abut the first two of the inner sidewalls at their edges to form a holding cavity of the inflatable container;
- four outer sidewalls placed in spaced apart relationship to the four inner sidewalls to form a fluid cavity;
- a top peripheral wall creating a seal between top edges of the four inner sidewalls and top edges of the four outer sidewalls;
- and
- an inflation tube coupled to the top peripheral wall for introducing a fluid into the fluid cavity.
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An inflatable container, comprising:
- four inner sidewalls, comprising:
- wherein a first two of the inner sidewalls are rectangular and joined together at a bottom apex to form a lower portion of the inflatable container, the first two of the inner sidewalls angling upwardly away from one another;
- and
- wherein a second two of the inner sidewalls are triangular and abut the first two of the inner sidewalls at their edges to form a holding cavity of the inflatable container;
- four outer sidewalls, comprising:
- wherein a first two of the outer sidewalls are rectangular and joined together at a bottom apex to form a lower portion of the inflatable container, the first two of the outer sidewalls angling upwardly away from one another;
- wherein a second two of the outer sidewalls are triangular and abut the first two of the outer sidewalls and the first two of the inner sidewalls at their edges to form a holding cavity of the inflatable container;
- and
- wherein pairs of the first two of the inner sidewalls and the first two of the outer sidewalls are spaced apart from one another at an angle to form wedges;
- a top peripheral wall creating a seal between top edges of the four inner sidewalls and top edges of the four outer sidewalls;
- and
- an inflation tube coupled to the top peripheral wall for introducing a fluid into a fluid cavity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.