EP1106535A1 - Deckel für einen Müllbehälter - Google Patents

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EP1106535A1
EP1106535A1 EP99123889A EP99123889A EP1106535A1 EP 1106535 A1 EP1106535 A1 EP 1106535A1 EP 99123889 A EP99123889 A EP 99123889A EP 99123889 A EP99123889 A EP 99123889A EP 1106535 A1 EP1106535 A1 EP 1106535A1
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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
    • B65F1/1615—Lids or covers with means for locking, fastening or permanently closing thereof
    • 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
    • B65F1/1468—Means for facilitating the transport of the receptacle, e.g. wheels, rolls
    • B65F1/1473—Receptacles having wheels
    • 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
    • B65F1/1607—Lids or covers with filling openings
    • 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
    • B65F2001/1653—Constructional features of lids or covers
    • B65F2001/1669—Constructional features of lids or covers relating to means for fixing or latching the lid or cover in a certain angle

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  • the present invention concerns a lid for a refuse container with bottom and side walls.
  • Prior art lids are disadvantageous as they are hinged at the same side wall, usually called the rear side wall, where also a handle for transporting the container is disposed.
  • the refuse container is usually placed with the rear side wall facing a fence, a wall, a hedge, or the like, at a household. This results in a conflict between the user's wish of having the container turned with the lid opening outwards towards the user and the refuse collector's wish of having the handle disposed facing outwards.
  • a lid being peculiar in that it comprises a lower lid provided with a filling aperture and which is hinged at an edge area of a first side wall and at least one upper lid which is hinged to the lower lid at one of the other side walls.
  • the lid may thus have a lower lid pivoting in one direction by being hinged to the edge area at the first side wall, and an upper lid pivoting in another direction by being hinged to an edge area of one of the other side walls, for example the side wall opposite to the side wall of the hinging of the upper lid.
  • the lower lid consists of a frame element and the upper lid consists of a plate element.
  • the plate element is provided so that the lid covers the frame element completely. This implies, however, a risk that an overlap between the plate element and the frame element forms a pocket between an upper side of the frame element and an underside of the plate element.
  • the upper lid By providing the upper lid with a flange it becomes possible to achieve a cleaning-friendly container as there may be established an overlap between the lower lid and the upper lid without a risk of refuse getting stuck in a possible pocket between the upper side of the lower lid and the underside of the upper lid.
  • the lid according to the invention is therefor peculiar in that the lower lid consists of a frame element delimiting the aperture with a rim, and that the upper lid comprises a plate element arranged for covering the aperture in the lower lid and which at its underside is provided with a first annular downwards oriented flange extending towards the aperture in the lower lid as it extends along the rim of the aperture, and that the lower lid along an edge area of the aperture is provided with a second annular upwards oriented flange extending at the outer side of the first flange.
  • the first flange and the second flange may thus be disposed in the upper lid and the lower lid, respectively, that a slot is formed between the flanges, and that the second flange may be provided with holes so that the refuse container may be vented when the lid is closed. Venting may be advantageous in order to avoid obnoxious smells or to avoid condensed water on the lid. Possible condensate will, however, drip down inside the container via the flange of the upper lid.
  • the upper lid may be mounted to the lower lid in different ways, preferably by a hinge.
  • an edge on the upper lid is arranged to abut on a surface on the lower lid and on the edge of the container in such a way that too large a moment in the hinge connection does not occur.
  • the abutting surfaces at the upper lid and the edge area on the lower lid and the container are established in such a way that in its open position the upper lid is situated at the opposite side of the position of the point of gravity in relation to the hinge with the upper lid closed.
  • a refuse collector When the refuse container is placed up along a wall, a fence, or a hedge at the household, a refuse collector will place it with the front side wall facing inward towards the wall, the fence or the hedge, and with the rear side wall facing outwards. With the refuse container placed in this way, the lower lid is to be opened by gripping it at an edge area at the front side wall of the refuse container facing inward towards the wall, the fence or the hedge. This is impractical. For a user to fill refuse into the refuse container it is practical that he only has to open the upper lid from the outward facing edge area in order to fill refuse into the refuse container. This can take place by gripping the upper lip at the edge area at the rear side wall of the container facing outward towards the person filling refuse into the refuse container.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a refuse container 1 with an embodiment of a lid 2 according to the invention.
  • the refuse container 1 is of a kind with two wheels 3 on an axle 4 and which is intended for being transported by tipping about the axle 4 and pushing or drawing in a preferred direction of travel illustrated with the arrow A.
  • the refuse container comprises a bottom 5 with side walls 6 extending upwards from the bottom 5.
  • the side walls 6 are provided with an edge area 7 delimiting an aperture (not shown) under the lid 2.
  • the lid 2 consists of a lower lid 8 and an upper lid 9.
  • the lid 2 is mounted on the refuse container by the lower lid 8 being hinged to a rear side wall 11 by means of a hinge 10.
  • the lower lid 8 consists of a frame element (see Fig. 2) and the upper lid 9 consists of a plate element (see Fig. 2).
  • the upper lid 9 is mounted to the lower lid 8 by mean of a hinge 12.
  • the lower lid 8 is thus intended for, together with the upper lid 9, to be opened by tipping in direction as illustrated with the arrow B, and the upper lid 9 is intended to be opened as illustrated with the arrow C.
  • the container 1 In connection with emptying the refuse container 1, the container 1 will be transported by pulling or pushing in the preferred direction of travel A from a household to a refuse-collecting truck and back again to the household. Emptying at the refuse-collecting truck occurs by lifting the refuse container and tipping it about the edge area at a front side wall 13. By tipping, the lid 2 comprising lower lid 8 and upper lid 9 will be opened by the lower lid 8 pivoting about the hinge 10, and refuse will be discharged from the refuse container 1. After emptying, the refuse container 1 will be transported in the preferred direction of travel A back to the household and placed e.g. up against a wall, a fence or a hedge with a front side wall 13 facing inward towards the wall, the fence or the hedge, and with the rear side wall 11 facing outward.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a partial section through a first embodiment of a lid 2 according to the invention, as seen the said direction of travel.
  • the lower lid 8 consists of a frame element with an edge area 14 extending along a rim 15 of an aperture 16 in the lower lid 8.
  • the lower lid 8 is provided with an annular flange 17 around the aperture 16.
  • the flange 17 extends upward from an upper side 18 on the lower lid 8.
  • the flange 17 is provided with air holes 19 creating access between an inner side 20 and an outer side 21 of the flange 17.
  • air holes 19 can be omitted if one desires to reduce obnoxious smells from the content of the container.
  • the lower lid 8 is provided with an annular abutment flange 23 resting on the upper side of the edge area 7 of the container. This flange 23 has also a projecting part 23' used for accommodating the hinge 10.
  • the upper lid 9 consists of a plate element extending over the lower lid 8 and the aperture 16 in the lower lid 8.
  • the upper lid 9 is provided with an annular flange 24.
  • the flange 24 extends downwards from the underside 25 of the upper lid 9.
  • the flange 24 extends within the flange 17 on the lower lid and serves as a drip nose ensuring that condensed water formed at the underside 25 of the upper lid 9 drips down into the container.
  • the flange 24 thus has an outer side 26 facing the inner side 20 of the flange 17 on the lower lid 8.
  • the flange 24 may be placed outward of the flange 17 of the lower lid 8.
  • the two flanges 17,24 may be in sliding engagement.
  • the upper lid 9 is provided with a hinge flange 28 (only one shown) extending downwards and overlapping the flange 23 on the lower lid 8.
  • the flange 28 may be extended over a greater area or over largely over all the side edge 27 of the upper lid 9 in order to achieve a reinforcement effect.
  • the upper lid 9 and the lower lid 8 are in the shown embodiment mutually connected by means of pins 29 extending through the flanges 28 and 23. The upper lid 9 may thus be pivoted in relation to the lower lid 8 by turning about the pins 29.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a section as seen perpendicularly to Fig. 2.
  • the flange 24 running at the underside 25 of the upper lid 9 is illustrated with a stippled contour.
  • the flange 17 running along the edge area 14 of the lower lid 8 is illustrated with a sharp contour. It is seen that the upper lid 9 rests on the upper side of the flange 17. In a plane perpendicular to the plane of the figure, the flange 17 on the edge area 14 of the lower lid 8 extends upwards under formation of an angle a in relation to the lower lid 8.
  • the flange 24, which runs at the underside of the upper lid 9, extends downwards under formation of an angle ⁇ in relation to the upper lid 9.
  • the angle ⁇ and the angle a are largely complementary for forming an angle of 180°. This angling of the parts of the flanges 17,24 at the side of the container opposite to the hinge 10 between the lower lid and the container ensures that there is not formed a pocket where refuse may be collected when the refuse container is emptied.
  • the upper lid 9 comprises an edge 30.
  • the lower lid 8 comprises an abutting surface 31.
  • the edge 30 on the upper lid 9 and the abutting surface 31 on the lower lid 8 are disposed in such a way that when the edge 30 abuts on the surface 31, a point of gravity (not shown) of the upper lid 9 will be situated in a first vertical plane V 1 which on the Figure is extending to the right of another vertical plane V 2 through the pins 29.
  • V 1 first vertical plane
  • the lid according to the invention could, however, also be provided in other embodiments for use in connection with other kinds of refuse containers, so-called three- and four-wheeled refuse containers.
  • the upper lid 9 may be hinged on the lower lid 8 at an arbitrary one of the three other edge areas.
  • the two hinges thus do not have to be disposed opposite to each other.
  • FIGs. 4 - 9 there is illustrates a second embodiment of a refuse container 1 and a lid 2 according to the invention. Identical or corresponding parts will be designated with the same reference numbers and hence not be explained in details. In the following there will be given an explanation of the differences.
  • the locking means 32 comprises a handle 33 at the outside for operating and establishing a locking together of the upper lid 9 and the lower lid 8.
  • the locking occurs by a catch 34 engaging under a nearby edge area for the aperture 16 in the lower lid.
  • the position of the handle 33 will indicate whether the catch 34 is in a locked position or an open position.
  • the upper lid 9 is hinged to the lower lid 8 at an edge area opposite to the first side wall 6.
  • the upper lid 9 has such a length that its edge 35 at the said first side wall 6 extends approximately to the outer edge of the lower lid 8. As the upper lid at the same time is lifted free of the lower lid over a part of its width, there will appear a gripping edge at the edge 35 facilitating the user's opening the upper lid 9.
  • the flange 28 of the upper lid 9 accommodating the hinge pin 29 is extended by parts indicated with 36 which extend largely in parallel with the flange 24 of the upper lid and largely in all of the longitudinal direction of the upper lid.
  • parts indicated with 36 which extend largely in parallel with the flange 24 of the upper lid and largely in all of the longitudinal direction of the upper lid.
  • Fig. 7 it is seen that the flange 28 is provided with a projecting stud 37.
  • the stud 37 is intended for releasable snap engagement with a notch 38 formed in the lower lid 8.
  • the upper lid 9 in quiet weather can remain standing in a mainly vertical position with the stud 37 in snap engagement with the notch 38. Hereby the filling is facilitated.
  • Figs. 8 and 9 there is shown two opening situations when using the lid 2 according to the invention.
  • fig. 8 only the upper lid 9 is opened and placed in its vertical position, ready for filling with refuse.
  • fig. 8 only the upper lid 9 is opened and placed in its vertical position, ready for filling with refuse.
  • flange 17 is sloping for avoiding pocket formation when emptying the container.
  • Fig. 9 there is illustrated a situation where the container is open for emptying as the lower lid 8 together with the upper lid 9 are pivoted to an open position. It is noted that the catch 34 for reasons of illustration is shown in its open position. The locking catch 34 will normally be turned 90° relative to the shown position in order to establish a locking engagement between the upper lid and the lower lid.
  • a pivoting handle 43 mounted at the lower lid 8.
  • the handle 43 is pivoted through about 270°, so that it is situated above the lid and so that the curved part 44 of the handle can be gripped by the user with the purpose of an ergonomically correct transport.

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WO2003050017A1 (en) * 2001-12-06 2003-06-19 Rehrig Pacific Company Trash cart
EP1602599A2 (de) * 2004-05-11 2005-12-07 All Care B.V. Behälter mit zweiteiligem Deckel
US7017773B2 (en) 2002-09-09 2006-03-28 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
US7114631B2 (en) 2003-05-09 2006-10-03 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
FR2956389A1 (fr) * 2010-02-15 2011-08-19 Franck Ollivier Controle du couvercle a poubelle.
US8424715B2 (en) 2003-05-21 2013-04-23 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container

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DK164273B (da) 1986-04-21 1992-06-01 Perstorp Ab Affaldsbeholder
FR2693994A1 (fr) * 1992-07-22 1994-01-28 Gillet Sarl Ets Borne de propreté à couvercle et à capot articulés.
GB2294869A (en) * 1994-11-09 1996-05-15 Taylor Egbert H & Co Ltd A cover for a refuse container

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DK164273B (da) 1986-04-21 1992-06-01 Perstorp Ab Affaldsbeholder
FR2693994A1 (fr) * 1992-07-22 1994-01-28 Gillet Sarl Ets Borne de propreté à couvercle et à capot articulés.
GB2294869A (en) * 1994-11-09 1996-05-15 Taylor Egbert H & Co Ltd A cover for a refuse container

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WO2003050017A1 (en) * 2001-12-06 2003-06-19 Rehrig Pacific Company Trash cart
US7121564B2 (en) 2001-12-06 2006-10-17 Rehrig Pacific Company Trash cart
US7017773B2 (en) 2002-09-09 2006-03-28 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
US8448812B2 (en) 2002-09-09 2013-05-28 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container with base member
US7114631B2 (en) 2003-05-09 2006-10-03 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
US7287665B2 (en) 2003-05-09 2007-10-30 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
US8424715B2 (en) 2003-05-21 2013-04-23 Rehrig Pacific Company Waste container
EP1602599A2 (de) * 2004-05-11 2005-12-07 All Care B.V. Behälter mit zweiteiligem Deckel
EP1602599A3 (de) * 2004-05-11 2006-03-22 All Care B.V. Behälter mit zweiteiligem Deckel
FR2956389A1 (fr) * 2010-02-15 2011-08-19 Franck Ollivier Controle du couvercle a poubelle.

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