CA1267872A

CA1267872A - Container

Info

Publication number: CA1267872A
Application number: CA000510784A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Joseph Kepiro
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1986-02-10
Filing date: 1986-06-04
Publication date: 1990-04-17

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure A container especially designed for disposal of chewing gum. The container has a base, an upright member, a decorative housing with a trash receiving container therein, and a top. The top has an opening therein covered by a trap door. Movement of the trap door to uncover the opening will cause a bell to ring.

Description

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The invention is directed to a trash cont~iner, particularly a trash container designed ror chewing gum and like material.

Description of the Prior Art : i In ~ront Or most large stores some type Or trash contain~r i~ provided. Usu~ thesa cont~iners are large and pro~ide open top~ ~rom which the trash is visible.
The container herein i5 relatively small and attracti~e. It has a top that will stay 0109ed, It i9 do~igned to attract children who are great users of chewing gum and ~t will encourage children to use the container rather than throw the chewing gum on the ground. ~

The container bas a base, ~ast.enet? to the groundJ
with an upright member extending there~rom. A d~cora~ive housing on the top Or the upright member contains a trash rccepticle~therein. ~he decorntiYe housing has a top on thei upper end theIeor. A trap door conceuls the opening in the top thut provide~ an entrnnce for tr~ . to ~e deposited in the trash rocept~cle. Ths trap door i~ held rel~aeibly ln its closed po~ition and, when the tr~p door i~ opened, ~ bell i8 rung a~
an attraction for children.
.,' . ~ ~r ~ 5 Figure 1 ls a top ~iew Or the container, : Figure 2 i9 a ~ide view o~ tha container~
... Fi~ur~ 3 is a OrOaE section of Figure 2 at line 3 - 3 Figu~e ~ is a cross-section of Figure 2 at line 4 - 4 Figure 5 is a cross-section of Figure 2 at line 5 - 5 ~nd Figure 6 is a ~iew o~ the reverse side of the top shown in Figure 1.

The invention herein as ~hown in Figure 2 i9 n tra~h or chewing gum d~sposal container 2 having a base 4, an upright member 6 a decorati~e housing ~, a trash contain~r 10 (see Figure 5) and a top 120 As can be seen from ~igures 2 and 3~ the:ba~e 4 is P
tubular member 14 with a flange 16 at the lower end of member 14. The flange 1~ i~ used to faston the container 2 to the ground by an appropri~
ate fastening me~nsg such as lag bolt~ and anchors~ The upper end of the tubular ~ember 14 receive~ the 30wer en~ Or the uprlght m~mber h which is a tube-like struoture (see Figure 3). The~e elemrn~ 4 and fi may be permenently rastened together by weldin~ or relea~ably fastened together by set 3crew~ or t.he like. The upri~ht member fi i5 of 6urricient len~th to pluce the top 12 of t.ho container 2 within easy reuch Or it5 u~r~, ~ I

. . On the upper end ef the upr~ght ~ember 6 there i9 .: , placed a tu~ular ~ember 18 ~hlch ~an f~ten the housing 8 to member 6.
~mber 18 i f~skened to ~ember 6 in the ~ame ~anner a~ tubular m~mber 14. Th~ decorati~e housing 8 i8 shown in cro~-cection ln Figure 5. The housing i~ ba~ioally a square hollow int-rior pls~tie housing w~th two ; open end3. The hou3ing i8 opaque or translucent ~nd its lower end rests . on shelf 20 on the upper end of tubular member 18~ A ~mall rai~ed wall 22 xtonds upward from 8helf 20 and the lower end Or the housiDg 8 is posi-tioned around the wall 22, 5mall screws or the liXe may fasten housing to wall 22. Within housi~g $ and resting on ~helf 20 is .a small clo~ed . bottom~ open top contalner 10 into which trash will fall ~rom the opening in the top 12. Thi~ trash container 10 will hold the trash deposited in contalner 2 ~nd, when the top 12 is remoYed, the trash container 10 can b~
removed from houslng 8 and the trash disposed of in ~n appropriate manner.
The top 12, as seen in Figur~ fi,has small raised wall 24 ~imilar to w~ll 22 and this w~ll 22 is po~itioned within the upper open ~nd o~ housing 8. Again screws can rasten these parts together.
As ~hown in Figure 1, the top 12 has a trap door 26 pivotted at point 2~, As shown in Figure 1, the trap door 26 co~ers an opening in the top 12.
In ~igure 6~ the opening 30 c~n be see~. When the trap door is moYed ~idew~ys, the opening 30 i6 visible rrom the outside Or t.he~container 2 and trash may b~ in6erted through opening 30. The~open~ng 30 is rel~tivel~
~mall and is sized just large enough to receive the trash it is designed for i.e. chewing gum.
The plvot pin 32 for the trap door is rastened 3 ~

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ther-to and =ove~t Or tbe trhp door rot~tos tho pi~ot pln 32. On ~h~
~nd of the pi~ot pin, in~ide the top 12, 1~ a lever 34 that ~0~08 ~lth the pivot pin. As 10ver 34 ~O~B~ it moves the lever 36 of a con~entiondl bicycle bell 38 causlng the bell to ri~g. Con~equently, a bell riDgs a~ th~ trap door moves, ~nd this iB an ~ttractlon to ohildren cau~ing them to like to u~e the eontainer 2 for trash, particularly chswing gum.
.Other than tho plastic hou~ing, most parts are of metal, but could be plastic. The decoration for the housing 8, and the shape~ ~hown in the dr~wing, are mere a~amples of one form of the 4n~ention and other decorations and shapes may be used. The trash recei~ing container 10 oould be a ~etal can, a paper or pla~tic ba~ or eY~n the hollow interior o~ the housing ~.

Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A container adapted for use to receive trash and particularly chewing gum to be disposed of, said container comprising:
a) a base, b) an upright member positioned on said base, c) a shelf member on said upright member, said upright member having an upper and lower end with the shelf member positioned on the upper end of the upright member and the base positioned on the lower end of the upright member, d) a housing positioned on said shelf member, said housing having a hollow interior and open ends, e) a trash receiving means in the interior of said housing, said trash receiving means being a trash receptacle with an open upper end and placed within said housing and positioned on said shelf member, f) a top positioned on the housing, above the trash receiving means, said top having an opening means therein to receive trash for depositing in said trash receiving means, said opening means in said top being covered by a movable trap door, said movable trap door is operatively connected by a lever means to a bell means whereby opening of the trap door to uncover the opening means in said top will ring the bell means, and g) said shelf member and said top having raised wall means which both engage the interior of the housing ends.