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US 9,850,065 B2Granted
System for securing a refuse container
OwnerEric Deckerinventor
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Abstract
A retaining system for maintaining a refuse container in a substantially upright position, said retaining system comprising: a retaining device for removably receiving a handle bar of said container, said retaining device fixedly attached to a rigid mount; a platform for receiving a base of said container and elevating said container above a support surface; an enclosure disposed around said container, said enclosure having an enclosure opening to facilitate depositing of said refuse into said container and removal of said container from said retaining device and said enclosure, and placement of said container in said enclosure.
Claims18
An enclosure comprising:
- a back wall, opposed enclosure side walls having a top end and a bottom end, and a top wall to collectively define an enclosure opening opposite said back wall;
- a platform disposed between said top end and said bottom end, said platform for elevating and supporting a container;
- a retainer member secured to said back wall for attachment to said container, said retainer member comprising a unitary frame having a flat, elongate mounting plate with a first longitudinal axis in a vertical plane, with an angled segment extending downwardly therefrom with a second longitudinal axis oblique to said first longitudinal axis, a U-shaped segment comprising a first arm with a third longitudinal axis substantially parallel to said first longitudinal axis of said mounting plate, an arcuate portion joining said first arm to a second arm extending upwardly towards said first arm with a fourth longitudinal axis oblique to said third longitudinal axis, whereby an enclosure opening is defined between said first arm, arcuate portion and said second arm;
- a tether having a hook member at one end and other end secured on said mounting plate;
- and
- whereby said enclosure maintains said container in a substantially upright position.
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A retaining device, said retaining device comprising:
- a unitary frame having:
- a flat, elongate mounting plate with a first longitudinal axis in a vertical plane, with an angled segment extending downwardly therefrom,
- a U-shaped segment with a first arm in a plane substantially parallel to said vertical plane of said mounting segment,
- an arcuate portion joining first arm to a second arm extending upwardly towards said first arm, whereby an opening is defined between said first arm, arcuate portion and said second arm;
- a tether having a hook member at one end and other end secured on said mounting plate;
- said hook member for attachment to a container and whereby said mounting plate is fixedly attached to a rigid mount;
- wherein said opening is dimensioned to receive a handle bar associated with said container, said handle bar disposed between a pair of handle supports integrally formed with said container;
- wherein said hook member being removably attached to a lid hingedly connected to said container to adapt said lid between an angled open position and a closed position;
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- wherein said handle bar is in close proximity to said arcuate portion and a base of said container engages and rests on a substantially horizontal support surface, and said rigid mount is a substantially vertical surface.
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A retaining system comprising:
- a retaining device for removably receiving a handle bar of a refuse container,
- said retaining device fixedly attached to a rigid mount;
- a platform for receiving a base of said container and elevating said container above a support surface;
- an enclosure disposed around said container, said enclosure having an enclosure opening to facilitate depositing of said refuse into said container and removal of said container from said retaining device and said enclosure, and placement of said container in said enclosure;
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- wherein said retaining device comprises a unitary frame having:
- a flat, elongate mounting plate in a vertical longitudinal axis, with an angled segment extending downwardly therefrom,
- a U-shaped segment with a first arm in a plane substantially parallel to said vertical plane of said mounting segment,
- an arcuate portion joining first arm to a second arm extending upwardly towards said first arm, whereby an opening is defined between said first arm, arcuate portion and said second arm;
- a tether having a hook member at one end and other end secured on said mounting segment;
- whereby said mounting plate is fixedly attached to said rigid mount;
- and
- whereby said refuse container is maintained in a substantially upright position by said retaining system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.