EP0652166B1 - Fussbetätigbarer Müllbehälter - Google Patents

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EP0652166B1
EP0652166B1 EP94402536A EP94402536A EP0652166B1 EP 0652166 B1 EP0652166 B1 EP 0652166B1 EP 94402536 A EP94402536 A EP 94402536A EP 94402536 A EP94402536 A EP 94402536A EP 0652166 B1 EP0652166 B1 EP 0652166B1
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Gérald de Broissia
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/14—Other constructional features; Accessories
    • B65F1/16—Lids or covers
    • B65F1/1623—Lids or covers with means for assisting the opening or closing thereof, e.g. springs
    • B65F1/163—Pedal-operated lids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/04—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor with removable inserts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/14—Other constructional features; Accessories
    • B65F1/1426—Housings, cabinets or enclosures for refuse receptacles

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  • the present invention relates to garbage cans foot-operated opening, basket type reception of household waste, most often composed a support lined with a removable internal container, which has or have an upper opening, which is closed in the rest position of the bin, then that it is cleared and made accessible to allow the use of the trash thanks to a pedal that the housewife most often operates on the foot.
  • the cover is pivotally mounted on the support itself, at the edge of the opening provided at its top, and on the other hand, this support also plays the role of a self-supporting chassis, suitable for being placed on the ground, on which the pedal is mounted control at the bottom.
  • the opening maneuver of the cover then requires the use of a linkage of metallic transmission, because to obtain an opening sufficient cover, freeing access to the interior of the trash can, it is necessary to act on this cover by a point close to its articulation on the support, by through this linkage which transmits orders opening and closing from the pedal.
  • the document FR-A-1 157 839 describes a box garbage consisting of a container mounted to tilt between two positions of use on a support envelope. This envelope covers the upper opening of said container when it is in the closed position.
  • the position of the container tilting axis by support envelope is essential for intrinsic characteristics of the garbage box.
  • the axis is located at the bottom of the container, in a position such, with respect to the center of gravity of said container, that the closed position constitutes the stable equilibrium position; the container and its possible content are then cantilevered with respect to the tilt axis.
  • the switch to open position is controlled by a pedal which is mounted directly on the tilting container.
  • Such a device implies limiting oneself to small trash cans due to the large effort to be supplied when opening and maintaining the container in open position, when it is full of garbage.
  • This system includes only two operating positions without possibility of adjusting the opening of the bin according the size of the waste you want to put in.
  • the container cannot actually tilt from its position stable equilibrium, or closed position, towards its open position only completely.
  • the invention aims to better meet the needs of the practical in this area, by offering a trash can foot-operated pedal opening in which the cover is fixed on a self-supporting frame, while it is the basket or removable container support which rocks on the chassis under the action of the pedal between the open and close positions.
  • the invention notably involves means of particular tilt control combined with a specific positioning of the tilt axis.
  • the invention is more particularly interested in waste bins domestic, for example when driving, following the invention, to an easily maneuverable bin, easy to empty and maintain, pleasant aesthetic, convenient to use by the housewife, satisfying all concerns hygiene and cleanliness, including the design ensures a long service life.
  • the support is mounted tilting around a horizontal axis on a self-supporting frame, between an end position opening stroke and a limit switch position corresponding closure, one to the relative position opening the lid and container, and the other at the relative closing position of these elements.
  • the support end positions are arranged so that the longitudinal directions of the container corresponding to each of these end positions, are both inclined to the vertical and in opposite directions from each other.
  • the chassis forms the cover intended to cooperate with the opening of the container.
  • the support which is also advantageously made in one piece of plastic, present preferably a shape substantially identical to that of the container.
  • the tilting axis is positioned horizontally so that it is perpendicular to a direction longitudinal of the container passing through the center of gravity and that, in addition, said pivot axis and said longitudinal direction are included in the same plane.
  • the container and its any content is not cantilevered by relative to the axis but on either side of said axis.
  • the closed position does not is not strictly speaking a position of equilibrium stable.
  • the tilt axis is located in the lower half of the container, below the center of gravity.
  • This arrangement causes the container to oscillate on either side of a reference position corresponding to an unstable equilibrium position. It can be defined as the one for which the longitudinal direction of the container, passing through the center of gravity, is vertical. Outside this position, the container alone is driven by gravity towards the two extreme positions opening and closing due to its center of gravity located higher than its tilt axis.
  • the reference position can then be considered as stable unlike the closed position which does not can be achieved only through the presence of means elastic bands, essential components of the means of tilt control.
  • the shape of the bottom of the support and / or that of the bottom container can / may be shaped in this respect spherical centered on the point of intersection between the axis of tilting of the support and the longitudinal direction of the container.
  • This bin design with a stand tilting therefore firstly has the advantage of allowing simple and inexpensive manufacturing, thanks to the possibility of make the cover with the rest of the self-supporting chassis in one piece of plastic.
  • This design also makes it possible to carry out the means for controlling the tilting of the support, from a pedal, with a minimum of parts and avoiding maximum use of metal, for example in the way next :
  • tilt control means can advantageously understand a unique piece of material plastic forming at the same time pedal, lever articulated on the chassis, carrying the pedal on one of its arms, and connecting rod connected, on the one hand, to the other arm of the lever and, on the other hand, to the support at a point preferably located at the level of the latter's tilting axis.
  • the realization in a single piece of the lever and the connecting rod is returned possible by the fact that at least the joint connecting the connecting rod to the lever is produced by a thinning.
  • the lever which is advantageously placed immediately under the support, preferably has a face turned towards the support taking the shape of the bottom of this last. It is also advantageous to design the lever / connecting rod assembly and its arrangement in such a way, in the open position of the support, said turned side towards the support, of the lever, comes into contact with the bottom of the support, so that the lever / connecting rod assembly firstly attached to the chassis at the location of the axle articulation of the lever and, on the other hand, to the support, serve as stop means in the end position opening, support.
  • the combination of the control means of tilting and special positioning of the axis of tilting reduces the effort to be exerted on the pedal to obtain the opening of the bin and for the keep in such a position, even if it is full and this regardless of its size.
  • the tilt control means comprising a spring forming elastic return means allow also to obtain a precise dosage of the opening and not just an all or nothing type command.
  • the opening partial of the trash is facilitated by the fact that the force exerted by the user's foot is partly compensated by the counter-force exerted by the spring, hardness can be appropriately determined.
  • the trash can shown in the drawings has a tilting basket which includes a support 1, in the form essentially cylindrical, and a container 2, likewise form that the support 1, which is disposed removably in this latest.
  • the support 1 and its container 2 are opened in their top to receive household garbage at the interior of the container through an opening 2a.
  • a fixed cover 3 closes the upper opening 2a.
  • the cover 3 is integral with a self-supporting frame 6, which carries in lower part a pedal 4, associated with means of control and transmission which are not shown on Figures 1 to 3. These means are intended to transmit to the support 1 any action applied on the pedal 4, so to put the bin in the open position, while return means urge the support 1 containing the container 2 to the closed position, as will be explained further.
  • the support 1 is tiltably mounted on the self-supporting frame 6 around an axis 5, which is oriented horizontally when the chassis is placed on the ground, on a ground supposed to be horizontal.
  • the chassis 6 has two substantially flat parts and concurrent 6a and 6b, the lower edges of which form the base 30 of ground support of the chassis, with a grip corresponding to that of a tripod.
  • Part 6a is vertical and form foot towards the rear of the bin, while part 6b is oblique to the vertical direction, from base 30 to cover 3.
  • the parts 6a and 6b are connected together by a part 6c of generally semi-cylindrical shape, which constitutes sort of a cover receiving and housing half of the support 1 when the latter is in the closed position.
  • the part 6c has, in the diametral plane 6b, an axis inclined to the vertical by about 20 degrees, in the opposite direction symmetrically to the inclined direction that takes with respect to the vertical the longitudinal axis 7 of support 1 when the latter is in position opening hours.
  • the inclination of the support 1 is then indeed about 20 degrees from the vertical, just like that of the container 2 which it contains.
  • part 6c can optionally serve as a stop for support 1, which by being partially housed in the chassis, has its longitudinal axis 7 placed with that container 2 in an inclined position relative to the vertical at an angle substantially equal to 20 degrees, this inclination being however directed in opposite direction symmetrically with respect to that corresponding to the support open position 1.
  • the cover 3 came in one piece with the entire chassis 6 by plastic molding. It will be noted in this regard that the part 6b of the chassis is wider than part 6c, so that it forms up to at the top of the bin, wings 31 and 32 which facilitate its gripping, especially when removing the container 2 or during cleaning. Support 1 and its container removable 2 are also advantageously made of molded plastic.
  • the tilting mounting of the support 1 on the chassis 6 is obtained through the cooperation of pins 8, which are formed in the material of the chassis and constitute articulation half-axes in the same diametral plane as its part 6b, with housings 9 provided externally in the wall of the support 1, in two places diametrically opposite, these housings being open towards the low and with a support wall at the top cylindrical corresponding to the external shape of the nipples 8.
  • the support 1 and the container 2 have a semi-spherical bottom centered on the intersection between the axis longitudinal 7 and the pivot axis 5 of the support 1, that is to say whose section with respect to any normal plane to the tilt axis 5 is circular, centered on this axis 5, and on the other hand that the position of the axis of tipping 5 is located in the lower half of the support 1 and container 2, the latter elements 1.2 having a height h, h 'substantially greater than the diameter from their spherical bottom 1a, 2b.
  • the tilting of the support 1 around the axis 5 is controlled from pedal 4 by a device appearing in FIGS. 4 and 5, which is hidden and protected by the fact that it fits entirely during its movements inside the self-supporting chassis 6, more precisely in the particular case considered in inside a recess 21 of its vertical part 6a forming rear foot, this being for this purpose constituted two flat faces slightly spaced from each other, joined by a vertical rounding 33 at the rear of the frame.
  • This device comprises a lever with two arms 10, placed immediately under the support 1 and articulated at 11 on the chassis 6.
  • One of the arms of the lever 10 carries the pedal 4, and the other arm of this lever is hinged to one of ends of a connecting rod 12 which is located in its extension and the other end of which is articulated on the support 1 at a point 13 located substantially at the level of the tilting axis 5 of the support 1.
  • the lever 10 and the connecting rod 12 are used to transmit any action on the pedal 4, generally exercised by pressing on it with one foot, to tilt the support 1 forwards in position opening hours.
  • the assembly formed by the pedal 4, the lever 10 and the connecting rod 12 is made in a single piece of material plastic.
  • End piece 16 is encased in a protrusion 17 of the support 1 by means of a pressure screw 18.
  • Joints 14 and 15 move in space during operation, between the two positions ends of the support 1 tilting relative to the chassis.
  • the year 11 articulation of lever 10 is located on the chassis, at a fixed point, thanks to a rod engaged at through the two faces of the vertical leg 6a of the chassis and at through a hole drilled in the lever 10 that they frame.
  • the command to switch from support 1 to the open position is performed against a spring 19, which permanently requests support 1 towards its closing end position.
  • This spring 19 is interposed between the chassis 6 and the connecting rod 12. It is fixed by one end to a protuberance of the connecting rod 12 and hung by the other on a rod or other formed in the material of the chassis at the bottom and at the bottom of the recess 21, slightly set back from the base 30 on the ground.
  • the lever 10 On the side facing the bottom of the support 1, the lever 10 has a face 10a substantially matching the shape of said spherical bottom. In some cases, can that, when the support 1 is in the open position, the face 10a of the lever 10, as well as the face 12a of the connecting rod 12 which is adjacent to the support 1, abuts against the spherical bottom of the support 1 when the latter arrives at the end of the race in the open position, without that joints 14 and 15 suffer because the elements 10 and 12 then perform this function in working on traction.
  • Another stop can be provided under the support 1 at the head of the arm 10.
  • pedal 4 abuts with one side inclined 20 of the chassis 6.
  • the support 1 has an upper edge 1b shaped as bias to allow tilting of the support 1 towards its closed position without this edge 1b entering contact with the cover 3.
  • a notch 22 is furthermore formed in the upper edge of the support 1 in order to facilitate removal of container 2 for emptying and / or cleaning. It can accommodate the axes a semi-circular swivel handle.
  • container 2 could be deleted, support 1 then playing itself directly the role of basket receiving the garbage housewives. Conversely, it will often be expected to place a disposable bag inside the container 2, itself removable to be extracted from the support tilting.

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  1. Müllbehälter mit Öffnung durch Fußbetätigung, mit einem Träger(1) zur Hausmüllaufnahme mit einer Öffnung (2a) am oberen Ende, so zusammengebaut, daß dieser unter der Einwirkung eines auf einem selbsttragenden Gestells (6) angebauten Betätigungs- Fußpedals (4) kippt, so daß in Ruhe- oder Schließstellung diese Öffnung (2a) durch einen festen, mit dem Gestell (6) in einem Stück verbundenen Deckel (3) geschlossen wird und daß in Öffnungs- oder Benutzungsstellung diese Öffnung (2a) durch einen Abstand vom Deckel freigelegt und dadurch zugänglich wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Betätigungs-Fußpedal (4) am unteren Teil des Gestells (6) angebracht und mit den Betätigungs- und Übertragungsmitteln (10 bis 19) verbunden ist, in der Lage, das Kippen des Trägers (1) auf dem Gestell (6) hervorzurufen in zwei Stellungen zum Öffnen und Schließen um eine Kippachse (5) herum im Schnitt durch die Längsachse (7) deutlich durch seinen Schwerpunkt hindurch, wobei die entsprechenden Stellungen dieser Längsachse (7) beide schräg stehen im entgegengesetzten Sinn zueinander im Verhältnis zu einer senkrechten, von einer auf einer waagerechten, auf dem Boden ruhenden Basis (30) des Gestells (6) definierten Richtung.
  2. Müllbehälter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Öffnungs- und Schließstellungen beim Kippen des Trägers (1) so sind, daß die entsprechenden Stellungen seiner Längsachse (7) symmetrisch zueinander im Verhältnis zur Senkrechten stehen.
  3. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Kippachse (5) sich näher am Boden (1a), als am oberen Ende des Trägers (1) befindet.
  4. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er einen Behälter (2) beinhaltet, der herausziehbar im Träger (1) angeordnet ist.
  5. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß dem Träger (1) und/oder dem Behälter (2) ein Boden (1a/2b) zugeordnet ist mit einer Form, dessen Schnitt im Verhältnis zur normalen Lage der Kippachse (5) kreisförmig und auf diese Achse (5) am besten sphärisch zentriert ist auf den Schnittpunkt zwischen Kippachse (5) und Längsachse (7) des Trägers (1).
  6. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Gestell (6) aus einem einzigen Kunststoffstück besteht, mit einem, am günstigsten flachen, normalerweise senkrechten Teil (6a), das nach hinten den Fuß des Müllbehälters bildet und das zu einem, im Verhältnis zur Senkrechten, schrägen Teil (6b) konvergiert, sowie mit einem halbzylindrischen Teil (6c), welches den Träger (1) zur Hälfte aufnimmt, wenn dieser sich in Schließstellung befindet.
  7. Müllbehälter nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Betätigungs- und Übertragungsmittel einen, mit dem Gestell (6) gelenkig verbundenen und am besten direkt unter dem Träger (1) angebrachten, zweiarmigen Hebel beinhalten, dessen einer Arm das Betätigungs-Fußpedal (4) trägt und dessen anderer Arm gelenkig (14) verbunden ist an einem Punkt (13), der am besten in Höhe der Kippachse (5) des Trägers (1) liegt.
  8. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die durch Fußpedal (4) , Hebel (10) und Zwischenglied (12) entstandene Einheit aus einem einzigen Kunststoffstück besteht, wobei das mit dem Hebel (10) und dem Zwischenglied (12) verbundene Gelenk (14) aus einer Verdünnung dieses Kunststoffstücks besteht.
  9. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Betätigungs-und Übertragungsmittel (10, 12, 19) während ihrer Verschiebungen in einer Aussparung (21) im Innern des Trägers (1) angeordnet sind, vor allem im Innern des Teils (6a) nach Anspruch 6, das nach hinten den Fuß bildet.
  10. Müllbehälter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß den Betätigungsmitteln dehnbare Rück-bewegungsmittel (19) zugeordnet sind, die das Zwischenglied (12) nach Anspruch 8 oder 9 mit dem Träger (1) verbinden auf dem Teil (6c), das nach hinten den Fuß in der Nähe der Basis (30) der Bodenauflage bildet und die den Träger (1) ständig in seine Schließstellung zurückziehen.
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