AU2002257779B2

AU2002257779B2 - Garbage container with a secondary lid

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Publication number: AU2002257779B2
Application number: AU2002257779A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Udo Frohlingsdorf
Original assignee: Sulo Umwelttechnik GmbH
Current assignee: Sulo Umwelttechnik GmbH
Priority date: 2001-04-20
Filing date: 2002-04-12
Publication date: 2007-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 2022-04-12
Also published as: DE10119430C1; EP1428771A1; PT1428771E; EP1428771B1; ATE355240T1; ES2281699T3; WO2002085758A2; WO2002085758A3; EP1251082A2; EP1251082A3; DE50209603D1

Abstract

The container has a box-shaped body (2) and sliding esp. pivoted cover (3). The cover has an opening and a secondary cover (7) mounted on/in it. The edge of the secondary cover located at the front in closing direction (10), forms the front edge (5) of the pivoted cover when this is closed. The width of the aperture is dimensioned, so that a human body cannot be jammed in the remaining width between the side edge of the opening and the top edge the container body.

Description

1 p \%VDOCS\C ABSpc\c7827163_ ISPA do191 1 I9/1/207 -1- Z REFUSE BIN WITH A SECONDARY LID (Ni I. Field of Use The invention concerns a refuse bin with a generally pot shaped body, preferably arranged on four wheels and which may be closed by means of a lid.

(Ni 11. Technical Background On these refuse bins, which generally have a volume of 1100 litres, there are known lid solutions as swinging lids (articulated at the rear edge) or as gliding lids (pushed towards the back). The gliding lids are shaped here generally as pivoting lids, in that the lid and the body as seen in a lateral view have a circular curve shape and a pivoting shaft is extending downwards approximately from the middle of the pivoting lid, most often on the external side of the body, and there is mounted on bearings, having the possibility to pivot in the pivoting axis shaped as bearing pivots.

On these gliding lids, and in particular on the pivoting lids, there is often needed a children safety appliance to prevent a child, who as by way of example is poking his head through the lid hatch, being clenched or even strangled between the anterior edge of the pivoting lid and the upper front edge of the body.

Since the pivoting lid, either due to its own weight in case of the metal made bins or as a result of having a spring based closing device which provides in both cases a safe automatic closing and relatively great closing forces, the European norm EN840 recommends the so called children safety appliance.

As children safety appliances there are known mechanical based solutions, which on closing the lid before the definitive closing are arresting it a given position before a child may be clenched. The lid reaches the definitive closing position only after actuating the children safety appliance, which generally may be done only by means of an actuating device which may be actuated exclusively by adults, for example due to a too great distance between two separated similar triggers or the like.

Such an above presented appliance, as for example presented in EP-A-98115018, P \WPDOCS\CABSp\7827163- I PSPA doc-191 I(X)7 -2- 0 z implies a relatively high production cost and a later difficult mounting to the refuse bin, Cc among others due to the fact that there are needed great automatic forces to open the lid.

The present invention seeks to ameliorate one or more of the abovementioned disadvantages.

Ni III. Statement of the Invention a) Technical Object The object of this invention consists in providing a simpler and cheaper solution for the children safety appliance.

b) The Attainment of the Object According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a refuse receptacle including a tub-shaped body; and a sliding or swing lid, which closes the tubshaped body, the sliding or swing lid including a cutaway opening and a secondary lid disposed on or in the sliding or swing lid, a front edge of the secondary lid forming the front edge of the sliding or swing lid in the closed state of same, wherein the sliding or swing lid has an upwardly projecting raised edge portion along an edge of the cutaway opening, said raised edge portion being configured in cross-section as a completely enclosed cavity.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention advantageously include a child safety appliance in that the anterior edge of the sliding or swing lid is formed as a secondary lid inside the sliding or swing lid.

Advantageously, in case of a child is clenched between the anterior edge of the sliding or swing lid and the front edge of the body, the child does not have to overcome the closing force of the whole lid to set himself free but only to overcome the closing force of this secondary lid.

Hereinafter we will always refer to the sliding or swing lid as to a pivoting lid, without thus restricting the invention since due to space related reasons the pivoting lid represents the most often employed solution for the sliding lid in case of such refuse bins.

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P \WPDOCS\CABSp~cc\h827163 I SPA dom19/I If2X)7 -3z Since the secondary lid, as a result of its constructive solution and most of all as a Cc result of its small size in comparison with the whole sliding or swing lid, may be easier lifted and develops smaller closing forces, even a child is likely to be able to lift this secondary lid by himself and thus getting free if clenched.

S 5 Advantangeously, preferred embodiments provide a reliable children safety Sappliance, wherein the front edge of the pivoting lid is displaced backwards to form thus a cut-out to be closed by the secondary lid in its closed position, whereupon by and large the cut-out is extending over the whole front edge of the pivoting lid to prevent thus having a remnant width on the front edge of the pivoting lid, enough to made a joint between this remnant width of the front edge and the anterior edge of the body.

This cut-out is preferably having a large enough width to cover the whole internal width of the body hatch whereupon such a joint might exclusively arise.

In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the front edge of the pivoting lid is so much displaced backwards in the cut-out shape, thus that the cut-out have a great enough depth to avoid a child being clenched. This is why according to the EN 840-6 the cut-out depth has preferably at least 181mm, therefore a child body diameter.

Preferably, at the same time the closing lid is not greater than it is needed to avoid the clenching, to prevent an unjustified rise in weight and thus the closing forces generated by it. To minimize the closing forces, the secondary lid will be preferably pre-tensioned in the closing direction by means of a spring or of the gravitational force.

Likewise, in preferred embodiments the articulation of the secondary lid to the pivoting lid and the gliding lid respectively has to be placed forwards enough, thus that even in case of a completely open gliding lid or pivoting lid respectively on a horizontally set refuse bin the secondary lid do not yet move automatically as a result of the gravitational force from the closed position to the open position with respect to the pivoting lid.

There are several further variants as constructive solutions for the secondary lid: One advantageous optional variant consists in forming the secondary lid as a swinging lid to be articulated through hinges to the upper side of the gliding lid in the proximity of the cut-out end and to seat in this closed position on the marginal area of the pivoting lid next to that cut-out.

P \WPDOCS\CABSp,0\727161_ ImlSPA do-I7 I 12(07 -4- Z Another optional embodiment includes forming the secondary lid as a swinging lid Swhose articulation is not carried-out on the rear side of the swinging lid but approximately (,i in its central area, thus that on its closed position the side of the swinging lid arranged after the pivoting axis seat under the lower side of the pivoting lid while its front side seat on the upper side of the pivoting lid.

t Preferably, the articulation of the gliding lid should be close enough to the anterior r edge of the gliding lid, thus that on opening the gliding lid with the swinging lid in its turn open with respect to it, the collision between the swinging lid sides entering the body and the rear wall of the body, be avoided.

This option decreases the necessary opening force with respect to the whole weight of the secondary lid, but since the necessary depth to avoid the clenching would be the clearance between the anterior body edge and the pivoting axis of such a swinging lid, on this option the swinging lid has almost twice the size in comparison with the above described option when considering the rain water related tightness problems.

There is possible to realize the secondary lid as a secondary gliding lid too which is guided with respect to the pivoting lid in a direction preferably parallel to the closing direction of the main gliding lid, for example of the pivoting lid.

As concerning the secondary lids there may be considered the rotating lids, which for example may be rotated on the upper side of the pivoting lid from the closed to the open position by rotating them around a rotating axis which is mainly arranged vertically on the upper side and on the pivoting lid plane respectively. In this optional case the secondary lid is preferably made of several pieces, for example from two pieces whose rotating axis are arranged close to each other at the exterior of the back corner areas of the pivoting lid cut-out, and the cut-out will be half closed by one or the other piece of the secondary lid.

Another optional construction of the secondary lid as a gliding lid is to make it as a folding lid whose two pieces are articulated one with respect to the other according to an axis parallel to the anterior edge. As in case of the swinging lid solution, the rear piece is articulatingly arranged for example on the upper side of the pivoting lid while the anterior edge of the front piece is either gliding backwards with respect to the closing direction alongside the upper side of the pivoting lid and/or it may be likewise completely swung P WDOCS\C ABSPC%7827 163 I_ SPAdDc-191112 007 0 Z upwards from it.

SHere, in the anterior edge area, the lid has the rubber sleeve mandatory in many countries to prevent thus for example the clenching of small objects as like the fingers between the pivoting lid and the anterior edge of the body.

S 5 To this end the rubber sleeve may be arranged on the lower side of the lid, in this t case of the secondary lid, and is obliquely extending forwards downwards up to the seating on the body upper edge, whereupon the rubber sleeve is extending over the whole length, therefore the front edge of the pivoting lid, therefore in this case of the secondary lid.

When the secondary lid is formed as a swinging lid, the rubber sleeve may be employed to ease its opening by a child: when for example the rubber sleeve extends obliquely downwards forwards at an acute angle between 20 to 80 degrees, a child having his neck clenched between the pivoting lid and the body upper edge will attempt to remove his head by essentially clearing off himself horizontally from the refuse bin. In this case the head is obliquely sliding on the interior side of the rubber sleeve, this being pushed upwards with the secondary lid and having thus the secondary lid opened.

Further on, the gliding lid, preferably arranged on the opposite side with respect to the secondary lid, may have another secondary lid, namely the loading lid. In the closed state, this is not preferably a part of the gliding lid rear edge, but is closing a loading hatch completely surrounded by the gliding lid. On forming the loading lid as a swinging lid articulated on the upper side of the gliding lid next to the loading hatch, in the closed state the loading lid seats all around the loading hatch on the marginal area.

The loading body serves primarily to throw the refuse in the bin from the rear side of the bin, a sought option if as it happens in some countries the bins remain on the roadside with their anterior edge towards the traffic lanes, a good arrangement to be picked-up and automatically unloaded by a refuse removing utility vehicle while their rear ends remain orientated towards the homes to be loaded with refuse.

By means of a dividing wall in the body of the bin, the secondary lids may be employed either by opening the entire gliding lid or by opening the loading lid to throw different types of refuse in different compartments of the body.

In the optional embodiment having all the hatches or the cut-outs in the gliding lid, in particular in the pivoting lid, which will be closed in the closed state by means of the P \WPDOCS\CABSpc\7R27163_ ISPA doc-19/ 1/200 -6z secondary lid or the loading lid, despite the upwards curving of the upper side of the Sgliding lid there supplementary arises the problem of preventing the rain water seep through the hatches in the body of the bin which have to be closed by the secondary lids.

SGenerally this is achieved by a properly flanging carried out in the gliding lid around that corresponding hatch or cut-out respectively, but which is efficient only whether in the t direction the water is flowing the flanging or the corresponding area of the gliding lid the N, flanging protrudes from is always extending downwards, at the most horizontally, but not upwards (as in case of a horizontally set refuse bin).

On an all around closed rim, as in case of the loading hatch, this is achieved in that, on an approximately rectangular hatch, the upper and the lower edge as they are extending transversely with respect to the closing direction of the gliding lid, are either extending horizontally or at the upper edge they are slightly extending obliquely downwards and exteriorly from an higher central point. As long as the surface of the gliding lid the loading hatch is arranged in and the loading hatch are horizontally extending in the transversal direction and have no shoulders, this solution poses no problems.

But instead the secondary lid is extending over a cut-out which in its turn is extending over almost the entire width of the gliding lid. But here arises the problem that the gliding lid, in particular when shaped as a pivoting lid, out of reasons related to a high rigidity and an optimum weight, does not have a plane shape in the transversal direction but at least in its external upper parts has shoulders, and in particular a lower central area, preferably shaped as a constant width strip which is extending in the closing direction over the entire length of the pivoting lid. With respect to this lower central area the external areas are higher, and on the passing between them there is a properly shaped shoulder which is likewise extending in the closing direction.

If the secondary lid cut-out rim would extend towards the exterior, from the central area towards the exterior area in the transverse direction, therefore at a right angle with respect to the closing direction, then in the shoulder area it will increase from the centre towards the lateral surfaces resulting thus in having the rain water flowing from the highest point of the gliding lid, and of the pivoting lid respectively, downwards towards the rim, unable to flow freely laterally.

In order to avoid this thing happen, in the shoulder area the rim does not extend P \WPDOCS%\CAB\Spc7827163_IvSPA doc-19/I I/2(X007 -7only transversely towards the lateral surfaces, but at the same time downwards too towards the gliding lid front edge and the pivoting lid front edge respectively, having such a reclination in a direction towards the front corners as to provide a downwards slope and by means of it a proper water drainage.

Out of the same reason, the rim may not extend exactly horizontally in the lower central area either, but shaped as a circular curve or a slightly convex crest with an approximately higher middle arranged point.

Since at the same time there is optionally provided that the anterior ridge cut-out width covers at least the entire interior width of the body to avoid thus a child being clenched in the gliding lid front corner areas, the cut-out rim may increase steeply backwards, almost in parallel to the closing direction.

Thereby there arises as a whole an approximately hat shaped outline for the above seen cut-out.

By having the secondary lid cut-out reach the pivoting lid anterior edge, namely over a significant portion from its width, the gliding lid stability will be drastically reduced. In general this is valid too for the loading hatch on the opposite side of the gliding lid, but due to its closed outline there is possible a compensation of this stability loss by means of a properly shaped flanging around it.

Since the secondary lid cut-out is not closed over its entire outline, therefore it is not entirely surrounded by the gliding lid, there cannot be employed a flanging to compensate the loss of stability, flanging which most of all is employed to drain the rain water, or it is possible but with a so great material thickness that it would result in an undesirable great weight.

Out of this reason the flanging may be optionally formed as an entirely closed cavity, at least with respect to the transverse section, which is possible when injecting the pivoting lid by means of air blowing or water injected technology.

The secondary lid cut-out flanging tube shape, which in particularly is extending over the entire rim width does not only decrease the weight, but due to the closed shape of the transversal section, the torsion rigidity not only of the cut-out marginal area but of the entire gliding lid too.

There may be obtained a supplementary advantage whether the front surfaces of PAWPDOCS\CA\Spcc27827 63IsiSPA d-1911112007 -8this tubular cavity are closed too, and not only their transversal section, because thereby c there is avoided the seeping of the filth and thereby an undesirable weight increase.

c) Embodiments In order to enable a clearer understanding of the invention, drawings illustrating t example embodiments are attached, and in those drawings: CN Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the refuse bin of a preferred embodiment with

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Sits lid closed, Figure 2 shows the same refuse bin with the pivoting lid open but with the secondary lid closed, Figure 3a shows the same refuse bin according to fig. 1 and 2 with the pivoting lid closed but with the secondary lid open, Figure 3b shows a view similar to that from fig 3a, Figure 4 shows a section view alongside the line IV-IV from fig. 1, Figure 5 shows an upper view of the pivoting lid 3, 9 Figure 6 shows a parallel partial section through the pivoting lid from alongside the line VI-VI, and Figure 7 shows a partial section through the pivoting lid 3 from fig. alongside the line VII-VII.

In Figure 1 there is shown a perspective view of a completely closed refuse bin 1 which comprises an upper pot shaped open body 2 having an approximately rectangular shape when seen from above, which is arranged on four wheels 19 set in the corner areas and whose hatch 22, seen in the closed position in fig. 2, is closed by a pivoting lid 3.

The pivoting lid is mounted in the known manner in the bearings to the external sides of the body 2, on the pivot shaped pivoting axis 18 by means of the pivoting shafts 17 which are extending laterally downwards near the body 2.

Since such pivoting lids 3 may be as a rule opened only in a single direction, there is later defined a front side 27 of the refuse bin 1 next to which, on swinging the pivoting lid 3 there begins opening the body hatch 22 as well as a rear side 28 arranged in an opposite direction with respect to it.

In the pivoting lid 3 of the presented constructive model, next to the rear side 28 there is arranged a loading lid 29 as a swinging lid but which is of no importance as part of this invention.

Essential for this invention is the cut-out 6 from the front area of the swinging lid 3 which reaches its front edge 5 as it may be best seen in fig.

3 when the pivoting lid 3 is closed.

Therefore the front edge 5 of the pivoting lid 3 has a backwards displaced cut-out shape 6 over the whole area of the front edge 5 and in the closed state will be covered by means of a secondary lid 7 shaped as a swinging lid. Then the anterior edge 4 of the secondary lid 7 forms the front edge 5 of the pivoting lid. Both the secondary lid 7 which is shown completely open in fig. 3 as like as the rear loading lid 29 are working independently one with respect to the other and may theoretically have the same shape.

The hatches closing through these two lids may have the same shape too, therefore representing cut-outs which penetrate the front edge of the pivoting lid, or may have different shapes thus that despite the identical constructive shape of the lids 7 and 29 in the rear hatch this front edge seat in the pivoting lid and therefore improving the stability of the pivoting lid 3.

The secondary lid as it may be best seen in fig. 1 and 3a is mounted to the upper side of the pivoting lid 3 by means of some hinges at the back of the cut-out 6 rear end and it may be lifted upwards. As it may be best seen in the partial section view from fig. 4, from now on the opening direction 30 of the secondary lid 7 is extending steeply, almost vertically upwards and thus approximately in a right angle with respect to the closing direction 10 of the pivoting lid 3 alongside the curved outline of the lateral jaws 25, therefore in the area of the lateral sides arranged over the horizontal opening plane formed by the upper edge 20 and the rear edge of the body.

The cut-out 6 shaped backwards displacement of the front edge 5 of the pivoting lid 3 prevents an anterior area joining between the pivoting lid 3 and the upper edge 20 of the body 2.

Out of this reason the width 8, therefore the extension of the cut out 6 in the pivoting lid 3 alongside this front edge 5, is at least as great as the interior width 21 of the hatch 22 of the body 2.

Therefore the remnant width 13 of the pivoting lid 3 on both parts of the width 8 of the cut-out 6 is outside the internal width 21 of the body hatch 22 as seen in an upper view, and it is on the one hand employed as a seating surface for the marginal area of the secondary lid 7 when closed and on the other hand to guide the pivoting lid over the lateral jaws 25 of the body 2: To this end from the lower area of this remnant width 13 of the pivoting lid 3 there are extending downwards several guiding elements 24 to carry-out a form guidance of the pivoting lid with respect to the body 2 in the transversal direction, therefore transversally with respect to the closing direction 10 in that these guiding elements 24 reach the lower area of the lateral jaws 25 as far as their upper edge at a short lateral distance up to the internal surface of these lateral jaws The rims 11 of the cut-out 6 are not extending in parallel but slightly backwards obliquely with respect to the lateral surfaces of the pivoting lid 3, one towards the other, and by means of the hollows in the cut-out 6, in the plane of the pivoting lid 3, next to the back rim of the cut-out 6 they are forming supplementary rugged prominences 31 where the secondary lid 7 may seat when closed.

On the anterior edge 4 of the secondary lid 7 there is arranged a rubber sleeve 16, already known from the pivoting lids, to prevent the squeezing of fingers and other small objects.

In the front area, the anterior edge of the secondary lid 7 does not get just to the upper edge 20 of the body 2 but only several centimetres above.

The remaining clearance will be covered by the rubber sleeve 16 which is mounted for example by means of screws to the lower area in the front side of the secondary lid 7, and from there is extending obliquely and forwards downwards to reach the upper edge 20 of the body 2. Here, the rubber sleeve 16 with an approximately flattened shape is extending downwards, forwards, at an acute angle of approximately 30 degrees to degrees to allow thus due to the oblique position of the rubber sleeve 16 for example an easy removal of a child's clenched body by pushing upwards the secondary lid 7 in its opening direction In the rear lateral prominences 31 area, the depth 9 of the cut-out 6 is still great enough to prevent a child being clenched, therefore greater than 181mm.

In fig. 1-3 there is further shown a loading lid 29, which in the closed state covers a loading hatch 29', which is arranged on the opposite half with respect to the anterior edge 4 of the pivoting lid 3 and which represents a hatch completely covered by the pivoting lid 3, as it may be best seen in the upper view of the pivoting lid from fig. 5. The loading lid 29 has the shape of a swinging lid mounted by means of two hinges on the upper side of the pivoting lid 3, over the loading hatch 29' while in the closed state seats on the rim of the pivoting lid 3 around the loading hatch P\WPDOCS\CAB\Spec\7827 163_ISISPAdoc.611/ 12/17 -12- Z 29'. To avoid the unbalancing of the pivoting lid 3 due to the loading hatch 29', the Cc pivoting lid has around the loading hatch 29' a flanging 11' consisting of a simple upwards curving of the material the pivoting lid 3 is made of, curving which may serve to drain the rain water too.

S 5 The figures, in particular fig. 3a, further show that the upper side of the outwards Sorientated pivoting lid 3 does not extend horizontally in the transversal direction 40, but in I order to provide the best pivoting lid 3 rigidity at a minimum material consumption, this has two shoulders 32 arranged at least on the upper side, in particular on the lower side too.

Thereby on the upper side of the pivoting lid 3 there arises a lower central area strip extending in the closing direction 10, which in particular has a constant width, and unlike this further on towards the exterior and the front sides of the bin has some higher areas 34 the shoulders 32 are formed in between.

Out of reasons concerning both the drainage of the rainwater and the rigidity of the pivoting lid 3, on the cut-out 6 for the secondary lid 7 there is provided a flanging 11" too (differently shaped in fig 3a and 3b) extending alongside the rim 11 and protruding upwards on the pivoting lid 3 alongside the rim 11. Since the cut-out 6 overruns the shoulder 32 in order to reach next to the front corners 12a, b, the shoulder 32 is overrun without an increased section of the rim 11 and the flanging 11' respectively from the middle towards the front comers 12a, b which might prevent the drainage of the rain water towards the front corners 12a, b.

To this end, at least the flanging 11', in particular the rim 11 too, are extending from the lower central area 33 downwards and outwards in the direction of the pivoting lid 3 front corners 12a, b obliquely enough that, despite the shoulder 32 which projects upwards in the transversal direction 40, there arises an overall fall of those surfaces from the upper side of the pivoting lid 3 where the flanging 11 protrudes from. Out of the same reason, the flanging central area arranged in the lower area 33 is not horizontally set but slightly curved or roof shaped, preferably with its highest point in the middle.

P \WPDOCS\CABLpeck\H27163 ISPA do-19/I I(X -13- Z Since at the same time the rim 11 must extend steeply backwards from the front Cc corners 12a, b, therefore exactly or almost in parallel to the closing direction 10 to inhibit a child being clenched there, there arises the hat shape of the cut-out 6 as it may be seen in fig. 5 with its greatest depth 9 in the central area 33 and unlike this, a smaller depth 9' in the higher external areas 34 whereupon out of the above mentioned reasons both in the t central area 33 and in the higher external areas 34, the depth 9 and 9' respectively are N, permanently decreasing from the longitudinal middle 39, therefore the middle extending in the closing direction 10 through the bin and thereby outwards through the pivoting lid 3, therefore towards the front surfaces 37.

As it is shown in fig 1 and 3, the secondary lid 7 does not have in its turn such a hat shape, but it is approximately rectangular with relative strongly rounded off upper corners, as well as with a generally present rim, the lid rim 41, downwards bent at the upper edge and the lateral edges and thereby at the upper corners too, as it may be best seen in fig. 3, and which has approximately the same height as the flanging 11'. Due to the cut-out 6 hat shape, the articulation of the secondary lid 7 is arranged in the lower central area 33, on the pivoting lid 3, as it is shown by those two bore pairs for fixing the hinges which are bored there.

The lid rim 41 on the one hand and the flanging 11' on the other hand have in fact approximately the same height, but they are differently shaped, respectively the height of the secondary lid articulation arrangement from the gliding lid and the pivoting lid 3 respectively, is thus chosen that the secondary lid 7, in the corner areas 31 of the pivoting lid 3 which enters the cut-out 6 sits there with its lower side on the upper side of the flanging 11' while the rest of the secondary lid 7 sits on the one hand with its rubber sleeve 16 shaped anterior edge 4 on the front edge 5 of the body 2 and/or with the lid rim 41 on the upper side of the pivoting lid 3.

A handle 35 is arranged in the middle of the upper anterior edge of the secondary lid 7, thus that by means of this handle 35 on the one hand the secondary lid 7 may be swung upwards, but on the other hand the whole pivoting lid 3 may be pushed backwards even if the secondary lid 7 is closed.

In fig. 7 there is shown in a longitudinal section the flanging 11' of the loading hatch 29', flanging consisting of a simple upwards curving from a single piece of the material the pivoting lid 3 is made of, in general allaround the entire circumference of the loading hatch 29' and preferably not displaced backwards with respect to its rim.

In fig. 6 there is shown a longitudinal section through the cut-out 6 from the pivoting lid 3 alongside the line VI-VI, therefore in the lower area 33.

Here it may be seen that the flanging 11' is likewise shaped from a single piece together with the pivoting lid 3 and it protrudes upwards from it but being hollow in a transversal section, with an approximately rectangular and rhomb like respectively section, extending as a single cavity 36 alongside the entire rim 11, therefore from a front corner 12a alongside all the lateral and upper rims up to the other front corner 12b, as it may be seen in fig. 5, and it is preferably tightly closed to its front ends too, therefore to the front corners 12a, b, and thereby forming a cavity 36 which has all its sides closed. At a low material consumption, this closed profile as it is seen in a transversal section provides a good rigidity of the flanging surrounded cut-out 6 and thereby of the whole pivoting lid 3.

In fig. 6 there is further shown the extending of the flanging 11' in the area of the shoulder 32 between the lower central area 33 and the higher area 34 of the pivoting lid 3, whereby both the upper edge of the flanging having the same height everywhere and the lower side, therefore the passage towards the material the pivoting lid is made of, as well as in the extension through the shoulder 32 in the direction of each front corner, for example 12b, are constantly decreasing to allow the rain water being drained. The slight curving of the flanging 11 from the central area 33 with the highest point in the middle, as it is seen in fig. 3b, serves the same purpose.

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Claims

1. Refuse receptacle including: a tub-shaped body; and S 5 a sliding or swing lid, which closes the tub-shaped body, the sliding or swing lid t including a cutaway opening and a secondary lid disposed on or in the sliding or swing lid, N a front edge of the secondary lid forming the front edge of the sliding or swing lid in the closed state of same, wherein the sliding or swing lid has an upwardly projecting raised edge portion along an edge of the cutaway opening, said raised edge portion being configured in cross-section as a completely enclosed cavity.

2. Refuse receptacle according to claim 1, wherein the cavity is closed at its front ends and therefore is a completely closed cavity.

3. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the raised edge portion which, at least with respect to its cross-section, is completely closed, is so dimensioned that it contributes to stiffening the sliding or swing lid.

4. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the sliding or swing lid, has at least on its upper side a lower-lying, middle region, and outer regions lying higher with respect to said lower-lying region, with stepped portions arranged between said middle and outer regions, and the cutaway opening is so configured that the edge or the raised edge portion of the cutaway opening is inclined continuously downhill in a direction towards the front edge, and therefore towards the front corners, even in the region of the stepped portion, when the sliding lid is closed and the receptacle stands horizontally. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the edge and/or the raised edge portion of the cutaway is inclined obliquely downwards in both directions from a highest middle point in the lower-lying middle region.

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6. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the CC cutaway opening in the sliding or swing lid which is closable by the secondary lid has a width so dimensioned transversely to the closing direction that so little residual width remains between the lateral edge of the cutaway opening and the front comers of the sliding lid that trapping of a person between the residual width and the upper edge of the Sbody of the refuse receptacle is inhibited.

7. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the width of the cutaway opening extends over the full internal width of the opening of the body.

8. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the cutaway opening has a depth measured from front to back of greater than 181mm.

9. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid is a hinged lid which is articulated in particular to the upper face of the sliding lid by means of at least one hinge, and in the closed state rests at least partially against the upper face of the sliding lid.

Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid is a secondary sliding lid which is guided on the sliding or swing lid of the body.

11. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid is a rotating lid, in particular a multi-part rotating lid, which is rotatable from an open to a closed position about an axis of rotation disposed perpendicularly to the surface of the sliding or swing lid.

12. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid has on its front edge a rubber lip projecting downwardly over the front edge, which rubber lip rest against the upper edge of the front side of the body in the closed state of sliding lid and secondary lid and is fixed to the underside of the secondary lid in the P\WPDOCMABSp%8727 163_ I SPAd 491 I f11201 -19- 0 zfront region thereof.

13. Refuse receptacle according to claim 9, wherein the secondary lid in the form of a hinged lid is articulated to the sliding lid by means of hinges at its rear end oriented away from the front of the body. (.i

14. Refuse receptacle according to claim 13, wherein the secondary lid in the form of a hinged lid projects rearwardly beyond the hinges and is located with its rear portion below the sliding lid and with its front portion above the sliding lid.

Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the lateral edge of the cutaway opening in the sliding lid is disposed obliquely inwardly and in particular is angled inwardly at least once into the cutaway opening, so that the secondary lid rests on the angular projections of the sliding lid formed thereby.

16. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid has on its underside at least one longitudinal reinforcement disposed in the closing direction, which longitudinal reinforcement is, in particular, formed integrally with the secondary lid.

17. Refuse receptacle according to claim 8, wherein the depth of the cutaway opening is so small, in particular not more than 30% of the extension of the sliding lid measured in an opening direction, and, in particular, the centre of gravity of the secondary lid with respect to the sliding lid is arranged so close to the front edge of the sliding lid, that the secondary lid moves of its own accord to its closed position through the effect on gravity even in the completely open state of the sliding lid with the refuse receptacle standing horizontally.

18. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid has a weight of less than 5kg, and is produced as a rotationally formed moulding or as a plastics injection moulding with completely enclosed cavities in its P\WPDOCS\CABISpc\7%27163 I sI SPA do- 19/1 Ifn2l7 Z interior, produced by the blow moulding method.

19. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid is a folding lid the at least two parts of which, articulated to one another S 5 along a line disposed parallel to the front edge, can be pushed up with the connecting t portion, while the rear edge of the rear part is articulated to the sliding or swing lid and the I front edge of the front part is guided along the sliding or swing lid.

Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the secondary lid is preloaded by spring force towards its opening.

21. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein, in addition to the secondary lid located at the front of the sliding lid, which secondary lid in the closed state of the sliding or swing lid partially forms the front edge thereof, there is arranged in the sliding or swing lid, close to the rear edge located opposite the front edge, a loading lid configured, in particular, as a hinged lid resting on said sliding or swing lid.

22. Refuse receptacle according to claim 21, wherein the loading lid remains automatically in the open position but moves automatically to the closed position when the sliding lid is opened beyond a defined point.

23. Refuse receptacle according to either of the preceding claims 21 and 22, wherein the loading lid rests on a raised peripheral edge of the associated the loading opening in the sliding lid.

24. Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims 21 to 23, wherein the secondary lid and the loading lid can be opened and closed seperately and independently of one another and, in particular, no mechanical effective connection exists between them.

Refuse receptacle according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein at least P \WPDOCS\CABMSpeO782763_ I PSPA dc19/I I12Ln7 -21- O z one handle is so arranged on the secondary lid that, on the one hand, the sliding lid can be C moved by means of the handle to the open position with the secondary lid closed and, on the other, the secondary lid can be opened by means of the handle with respect to the sliding lid. r- tn

26. Refuse receptacle according to claim 25, wherein the handle is arranged close to (N CN the front edge of the secondary lid.

27. Refuse receptacle substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying figures.