Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B67/00—Apparatus or devices facilitating manual packaging operations; Sack holders
  • B65B67/12—Sack holders, i.e. stands or frames with means for supporting sacks in the open condition to facilitate filling with articles or materials
  • B65B67/1205—Sack holders, i.e. stands or frames with means for supporting sacks in the open condition to facilitate filling with articles or materials collapsible or foldable

Definitions

• My present invention relates to a holder for waste- -disposal bag which is designed to be installed in a confined space, such as the interior of a passenger automobile, so as nor ⁇ mally to protrude but slightly from a wall or other support on which it is mounted.
• Patent No. 3,841,592 According to that * patent, a circular hoop is designed to engage the open end of a bag and is hinged to a supporting bracket so as to be swingable between a substantially vertical depending position and a substantially horizontal utili- zation position. In the latter position, a cover normally over ⁇ lying the hoop can be lifted off to give access to the bag.
• a more refined version of such a bag holder, adapted to be installed in an automotive vehicle, is the subject matter of Austrian Patent No. 360,427 issued 12 January 1981.
• the holder described in this Austrian patent comprises a rectangular frame articulated to a mounting bracket and provided with a generally rectangular lid biased by a torsion spring into a closure position in which it is in all-around contact with the frame.
• An edge por ⁇ tion of the lid projects in this closure position beyond the frame and can be pushed by finger pressure to swing the frame from its depending position into its utilization position in which that frame is arrested by the mounting bracket.
• the mounting bracket preferably consists of aluminum while the frame, the insert and the lid are made of plastic material. Indexing pins serving to retain the insert in the frame are des- . cribed as metallic.
• a throughg ⁇ ing horizontal shaft which traverses an enlargement of the lid and serves as a fulcrum for the latter.
• the patent does not indicate by what means, if any, this shaft is prevented from accidentally sliding out of the holes in the sidewalls of the frame in which its ends are presumably received.
• the torsion spring is anchored to .the lid since only a stud on one of the sidewalls, engaged by a leg of that spring, has been illustrated.
• the general object of my invention is to provide an improved bag holder of the type described and shown in the above- -identified Austrian patent.
• a more particular object is to provide simple and reliable means for articulating a lid of such a holder to its frame without the need for a thr ⁇ ughg ⁇ ing metallic shaft but only with elements molded from plastic material.
• the lid cover ⁇ ing the pivoted frame of the holder is provided with a pair of hinge pins of resilient material projecting through respective holes in the sidewalls of the frame and defining a horizontal swing axis for that lid, one of these hinge pins being rigid with the lid while the other hinge pin traverses a bore in a lug of the lid projecting into the interior of the frame in the vici ⁇ nity of one sidewall.
• the latter hinge pin has a barb and a head which bear upon opposite sides of the lug penetrated thereby for substantially immobilizing this pin relatively thereto.
• the lid and the rame can be easily assembled and could also be separated again with repression of the barb hut will normally remain connected in the face of the various kinds of shock to which such a device may be subjected when installed in an automotive vehicle.
• the insert designed to engage the bag comes to rest against internal abutments of the frame, helping to hold the engaged bag in place, upon being introduced into the frame from the bottom thereof (as viewed in the utilization position), the insert being preferably indexed within the frame with the aid of at least two integral pr ⁇ tuberances on each major side of its rectangular outline which are receivable in respective peripheral depressions of the frame.
• the abutments advantageously, are pr ⁇ nglike downward extensions of an inner peripheral ledge of the frame which also serves as an anchor for one of the legs of a torsion spring that is wound about the barbed hinge pin and biases the lid into its closure position.
• FIG. 1 is a fr ⁇ nt-elevati ⁇ nal view (parts broken away) of a bag holder according to my present invention, shown in its depending or withdrawn position;
• FIG. 2 is a cross-sectioned view taken on the line II - II of FIG. 1;
• FIG. 3 is a side view of the frame of the bag holder in its utilization position
• FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a hinge pin serving to articulate the frame of the bag holder to its lid;
• FIG. 5 is a perspective view of an insert receivable in that frame. Specifi ⁇ Description
• a single-handedly flippable bag holder according to my invention, generally designated 10, whose major constituents are a mounting bracket 11, a rectangular frame 12 pivoted to this bracket for swinging about a horizontal pivotal axis, a lid 13 articulated to frame 12, and a rectangular insert 14 removably indexed in frame 12 in order to retain there ⁇ in a waste-disposal bag 15 partly indicated in phantom lines in FIGS. 1 - 3. All these parts are made of a somewhat resilient plastic material such as polypropylene, for example.
• Bracket 11 is shown provided with an adhesive strip 16 by which it can be bonded onto a supporting wall shown schematic ⁇ ally at in FIG. 3, e.g. a door or a dashboard of a passenger car.
• Additional fastening means include several screws 17 (only one shown) adapted to be threaded into that wall.
• the pivotal connection between frame 12 and bracket 11 comprises a pair of pintles 18 and 19 molded integral with the frame, these pintles being received in two horizontally aligned holes of cheeks 11a., llb_ of the bracket.
• a certain axial separa- tion of cheek 11a from an adjoining sidewall 12a. of frame 12 enables that frame to be detached from bracket 11 upon a relative leftward shift, as viewed in FIG. 1, against the force of a resi ⁇ lient tongue 20 which laterally projects from frame 12 and bears upon cheek lla_.
• This feature is known per se from the ab ⁇ ve- -identified Austrian patent and, therefore, is not part of my present invention.
• Lid 13 is provided with two hinge pins 21 and 22, parallel to pintles 18 and 19, which pass through horizontally aligned holes in sidewalls 12a., 12b_ of frame 12 to define a hori ⁇ zontal swing axis for that lid paralleling the pivotal axis of the frame defined by the two pintles .
• Hinge pin 21 is rather short and rigid with lid 13 whereas hinge pin 22 is considerably longer and passes through two somewhat elongated apertures 27, 28, aligned with two holes in sidewalls 12a_, 12b_, which are formed in a pair of lugs 23, 24 integral with the lid; these lugs project into the interior of frame 12 in the vicinity of its sidewall 12_ as seen in FIGS. 1 and 2.
• FIG. 1 shows the hinge pin 22 in full lines in its working position and in phantom lines in a retracted position in which it enables the lid 13 to be tilted sufficiently to let the other hinge pin 21 be extracted from sidewall 12a.
• Pin 22, as more clearly shown in FIG. 4 has a head formed by lateral bosses 22a. and further has a barb 22b_ which is biased outward at an acute angle so as to adjoin the solid portion of lug 23 when the pin is inserted into that lug from the left as viewed in FIG. 1. Upon such insertion, head 22a.
• This insert which is also frame- -shaped, is symmetrical about a midplane including its rectangu ⁇ lar outline (i.e. a plane which is vertical in the position of FIG. 2 and horizontal in the position of FIG. 3) so that it can be indifferently introduced, along with a new bag, from below into the leveled frame 12 (FIG.
• lid 13 has a forward, edge portion 13a. projecting beyond the frame 12 to let the user (e.g.

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• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
• Refuse Receptacles (AREA)
• Passenger Equipment (AREA)
• Vehicle Step Arrangements And Article Storage (AREA)
• Eye Examination Apparatus (AREA)
• Electron Beam Exposure (AREA)
• Curing Cements, Concrete, And Artificial Stone (AREA)
• Supports Or Holders For Household Use (AREA)
• Containers And Packaging Bodies Having A Special Means To Remove Contents (AREA)
• Undergarments, Swaddling Clothes, Handkerchiefs Or Underwear Materials (AREA)
• Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
• Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
• Sampling And Sample Adjustment (AREA)

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• 1985
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