CA1046569A - Alternatively-mounted compactor door arrangement - Google Patents

Alternatively-mounted compactor door arrangement

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CA1046569A
CA1046569A CA226,886A CA226886A CA1046569A CA 1046569 A CA1046569 A CA 1046569A CA 226886 A CA226886 A CA 226886A CA 1046569 A CA1046569 A CA 1046569A
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door
receptacle
standard
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William A. Eckerle
Lauren W. Guth
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General Electric Co
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30PRESSES
    • B30BPRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B9/00Presses specially adapted for particular purposes
    • B30B9/30Presses specially adapted for particular purposes for baling; Compression boxes therefor
    • B30B9/3003Details
    • B30B9/3032Press boxes
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65FGATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/14Other constructional features; Accessories
    • B65F1/1426Housings, cabinets or enclosures for refuse receptacles
    • B65F1/1436Housings, cabinets or enclosures for refuse receptacles having a waste receptacle withdrawn upon opening of the enclosure
    • B65F1/1442Housings, cabinets or enclosures for refuse receptacles having a waste receptacle withdrawn upon opening of the enclosure the receptacle being rotated about a vertical axis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
There is disclosed a domestic refuse compactor door arrangement for alternatively pivotally mounting the door to the compactor frame about a vertical axis adjacent either side of the frame. The door may thus be adapted to swing open and closed from either side. The door includes a pivotally mounted standard which removable receives a refuse receptacle. Both the door and the standard are symmetrical about a horizontal midplane to obviate the need for alteration thereof when the door is pivotally mounted to open in either direction.

Description

s~ ( Domestic refuse compactors have enjoyed increasing popularity during the past fe~ years. Such domestic com-pactors normally include a cabinet having a ~ront opening~
a door for closing the opening, and an open-topped container movable into and out o~ the cabinet. The contai~er is adapted to receiver a platen or compacting mechanism mounted in the cabinet for compacting refuse therein Previously, draws constituted the refuse receptacle and the door con-stituted the e~posed end o~ the drawer. Recent developments have made it apparent that it is more expedient9 however, to provide a separable refuse receptacle which can be removed from the compactor~ when it is filled, for easy aisposal of the refuse compacted thareinO Also~ it is advantageous to have the receptacle mounted directly to the door so that it can swing reely from a compacting position inside the com-pactor to a loading position at least partially ou~side the compactor, as shown in U.S 3,654,855 issued April 11, 1972.
Another such arrangement is suggested by Canadian Patent -i~ Application, Serial No. 22~399 filed Mar~ a~ 19~
Along parallel lines, it has become customary in household appliances, having swinging doors, that such doors may be easily reversed so that they swiny open alternatively either to the lsft or to the right Providing reversibly opening doors on such appliances as refrigerators or ~r~o~-~rs has been relatively easy since it is merely a matter of putting the door pivot axis on the opposite cabinet edge.
U S. Patents 3~455~061 issued June 15, 1969, 3,430~386 issued March 4~ 1969~ and 3~378~954 issued April 23~ 1968 are representative of such arrangements. However~ for appliances where the door serves more than one function, the problem of providing a reversible door is more complex The present invention is a straightforward, inexpensive, -. .: :
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readily constructed and easily maintained arrangement which allows a compactor door, supporting a reuse container, to be alternatively pivotally mounted to open in either direc-tion without having to modify the refuse receptacle mountiny means The invention includes a compactor door, having a stan-dard pivotally attached thereto, with both the door and the standard being symmetrical about a horizontal midplane so that the door may be inverted and pivotally attached to the opposite side of the compactor frame upsidedown from its first position to allow it to swing open in the opposite direction.
More ~pecifically~ the invention includes a domestic refuse compactor comprising a frame having a back, first and second spaced sides and an open front defining a re-fuse compacting chamber; a door pivotally hinged to the frame for movement between a closed position and an open position9 and means for alternatively pivotally mounting the door to the frame about a vertical axis adjacent either side of the first and second spaced sides of the frame, the door including standard means pivotally mounted in spaced relationship to the pivotal mounting means of said door, said standard means being symmetrical about a horizontal ~:
midplane for removably securing a refuse receptacle thereto irrespective of which side of the frame the door is pivoted adjacent The door arrangement of this invention effectively combines the desired features of having a household appli- ~:
ance whose door can be adapted to swing open in either di~ec-tio~ and of having a refuse compactor whose refuse recep-tQcl~ is mounted to the door for easy accessibility Figure 1 is a plane view of a domestic refuse compactor "'' ' .

5~9 haYing a refuse receptacle mounted on the door thereof, the position of the receptas:~le when the door i8 Op'~
being shown in dashed lines;
Figure 2 is a plane view similar to Figure 1 showing the door opening in the opposite direction, Figure 3 is a partial cross-sectional view substantially along line 3_3 of Figure 1 showing how the refuse receptacle is mounted to the door, The door is shown in full~ and various hidden lines have been omitted for clarity Figure 4 shows one embodLment of a standard suitable ~or use in the present invention and Figure 5 shows an alternative embodiment of a standard suitable ~or uee in the invention, Referring to Figures 1 and 2, there is illustrated a plane view of a c~mpactor 10 having as major components a cabinet or frame 12, a dsor 14, a refuse receptacle 16, and receptacle mounti~g means 18 for mounting the receptacle on the door, Compactor 10 is provided with a suitable com_ pacting mechani~m ~not shown) or compacting or compressing refuse in the receptacle 16, Also; suitable contrals (not shown) are provided for energizing the compacting mechanism in any suitable fashion, Cabinet 12 is desirably of rectilinear configuration having a top wall 229 side wall~ 24~ 26~ a back wall and a bottom w~ll or floor 30, Cabinet 12 accordingly provides an opening 329 which is preferably r~centagular, providing acce~s to a compacting chamber 34, The door 14 co~prises inner and outer spaced panels 36, 38 and uppex and lower .
panels 40~ 42 providing a door compartment 44, hou~ing part 3~ of the receptacle mounting mean~ 18, a~ will be more fully `~
explained hereinafter, The door 14 is mounted for pivotal movem~nt about a vertical axis by a pair of upper and lowex ``' ' " ' ` ''', .~'' ' :' '' ' ''; .' ~c~ 9 brackets 46 cooperating with receiving pins 48 (only the upper bracket and receiving pin being shown) ~ he mounting arrangement of this invention is illus-trated in Figures 3 through 5 and comprises a standard or column 90 mounted to the door 14 for pivotal movement about a vertical axis, spaced from the axis about which the door pivots, by upper and lower pivot connections 92 The standard 90 comprises upper and lower U-shaped brackets 94 extending into the door compartment 44. Each of the brackets 94 surrounds an upstanding pin or stub shaft 96 and is secured thereto in any suitable fashion (only one such pin being shown in Figure 1). ~ ;
Advantageously, pins 96 are resiliently supported by means (not sho~) within door compartment 44 in such a manner that standard 90 attached thereto is resiliently support on the door 14 for vertical movement between a first position in which the refuse receptacle 16 is not in contact with floor 30 and a second "compacting" position, in which refuse receptacle 16 rests on floor 30. Standard 90 is biased toward the door pivot connection 49, as illus-trated in Figure 1, by torsion springs 112 best seen in Figure 3. The standard 90 includes a central U-shaped channel 120 for receiving a suitable projection disposed upon the refuse receptacle as will be explained hereinater. ~`~
Standard 90 also includes a pair of planar wings 122 which include slot means 124 adapted to receive corresponding means associated with the refuse receptacle The wings 122 also :~
provide a pair of oppositely facing similarly offset siots 126 to receive corresponding means when the door is inverted Also secured to the standard 90 are upper and lower hook- ;
shaped bracXets 128 for receiving complementary parts at-tached to the refuse receptacle.

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~4~ 9 In this regard, receptacle 16 ~Figure 3) is preferably a one-piece~ polymeric resinous material molding substan_ tially cylindrical in shape although it may be tapered slig~tly to facilitate being removed from its mold and to facilitate removal of compacted refuse therefrom. Receptacle 16 includes an arcuate closed side wall 50~ a bottom wall 52, and an open top 54. Suitable circumferential stiffening ribs 56 may be provided on the exterior of ths side wall 50 to increase its circumferential strength, A bracket 58 integral with the side w~ll 50 conveniently extends circum- :
ferentially about the receptacle 16 providi~g a groove 60 received by upper or lower hook-shaped brackets 128, as the .
case may be, and thereby supporting receptacle 16 n~a~ its bottom.
Surrounding the open top 54 of contain~r 16 is clamp ,~
means 62 which serves a number of functions including clam~
ping a flexibl2 bag 64 to the receptacle 16; providing ,~
support or the receptacle 16 against downw~rd and twisting ' -' movement; providing increased circumferential stxength or the receptacl~ 16 adjacent the open upper end ther~of and '~
providing a handle means for lifting the receptacle 16 out of load_supporting relationship with mounting means 1~. ~
Clamp 62 also includes 3 mounting me~ber 62 for cooper- ~ :
ation with slot means 124 to attach the upper end of the receptacle 16 thereto, ~he mounting member ~2 comprises an .~
arcuate section 84 secured as by welding or the like to the , .
~ircumference of Clamp 620 Mounting me~ber 82 further~.in. .
cludes a projection 86 which is received in U-shaped channel 120 of mounting means 18. ~he arcuate section 84 also in~
cludes a pair o depending legs 88 (Figure 5) to be received in slot means 124 of mounting mean~ 18. As can be seen~
projection 86 prevants twi~ting movement o the xeceptacle .
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16 during compacting while the legs 88 prevent the racep-tacle 16 from tilting away from mounting means 18 and also assists in providing vertical support for receptacle 16.
It can be seen that mountiny means 18 and door 14 comprise upper and lower halves which are functionally symmatrical and axially symmetrical about a horizontal midplane, Ac_ cordingly, in th~ employment of th.is invention, if one desires tha~ door 14 open to the right as opposed to opening to the left, receptacle 16 may be removed from mounting means 18, upper and lower brackets 46 detached from cabinet 12, the door 14 inverted, upper and lower brackets 46 reattached to cabinet 12 at the right front corner thereo and receptacle 16 replaced in mounting means 18. It can the~ be seen that ~ho upper hook_shap~d bracket 128 and portion o~ standard 90 extending above the upper pivot connection 92~ which seemed super1uous in Figure 3, now becomes operative to engage bracket 58 and support receptacle 16 at its lower end. S~milarly, it can be seen that the lower slot means 126 depicted in Figures~4 and 5, which also may have seemed ::superfluous heretofore, now receive depending legs 88 to support receptacle 16 at this upper end. m us, door 14 is easily invert~d 30 that it may pivot in the opposite direc-li~n as shown in Figure 2, s It should al80 be noted that identical abutment means 132 and 140 are provided so that no modification of cabinet 12 is necessary to accommodate the recaptacle 16 inside the cabinek when the door is pivoted from the other side~

Claims (10)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclu-sive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A domestic refuse compactor comprising:
a frame having a back, first and second spaced sides and an open front defining a refuse compacting chamber;
a door pivotally mounted to the frame for movement between a closed position and an open position;
means for alternatively pivotally mounting the door to the frame about a vertical axis adjacent either side of said first and second spaced sides of the frame;
a receptacle movable between a compacting position within said compacting chamber and a loading position at least partly outside said compacting chamber; and receptacle mounting means mounting said receptacle on said door, said mounting means having (1) standard means pivotally mounted to said door in spaced relationship to the pivotal mounting means of said door and (2) corresponding means associated with said receptacle, said standard means being symmetrical about a horizontal midplane to receive said corresponding means of said receptacle. in both its upright and inverted positions, thereby removably securing said refuse receptacle to said door irrespective of which side of the frame the door is pivoted.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said standard means includes a U-shaped channel extending longitudinally thereof configured to receive a cooperating projection of said corresponding means associated with said receptacle.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said standard means comprises hook-shaped brackets at each of its upper and lower ends and said corresponding means associated with said receptacle includes a bracket integral with said receptacle sidewall, said hook-shaped brackets and said bracket providing an interlocking connection for removably securing said refuse receptacle to said door.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said standard means includes offset slots configured to receive said corresponding means associated with said receptacle.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said corresponding means associated with said receptacle includes a clamp means, secured to the open top of said receptacle, said clamp means including a mounting member having an arcuate section secured thereto and a pair of depending legs adaptable to be received by said offset slots.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said standard includes apertures therein configured to receive said corresponding means associated with said receptacle.
7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said corresponding clamp means secured to the open top of said receptacle, said clamp means including a mounting member having an arcuate section secured thereto and a pair of depending legs adaptable to he received by the apertures in said standard.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said standard means is pivotally biased toward the pivotal axis of said door, and said compacting chamber includes receptacle abutment means therewithin, whereby said receptacle received by said standard is moved in a linear path, when moving within said compacting chamber, and then an arcuate path as the door is pivoted to its fully open position.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said standard is biased toward the door pivot connection by torsion springs.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for alternatively pivotally mounting the door to the frame about a vertical axis include a pair of upper and lower brackets mounted to said door and cooperating receiving pins mounted to said frame.
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