EP1602598A1

EP1602598A1 - Waste container with storage compartment for bags

Info

Publication number: EP1602598A1
Application number: EP04013139A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Francesco Corradi; Luca Corradi; Fabio Tosarelli
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-06-03
Filing date: 2004-06-03
Publication date: 2005-12-07

Abstract

It consists of a bag storage compartment (1 or 1A) placed inside a waste container (2 or 10A). Said bag storage compartment (1) is part of a new waste container (2) with a door (5) to insert the rolled up bags (11) or it is a separate compartment (1A) integrated with the waste container (10A) without lateral side or it consists of a compartment (1A) to be placed on the bottom of an already used waste container (10A).

Description

In the use of the waste containers for paper, organic waste or other materials, is normal, whether or not for domestic use, to place inside the same containers a plastic sack whether or not biodegradable. Currently these sacks are manually placed inside the waste containers with the double end to facilitate the emptying, such as it is sufficient to take the same sacks and to bring them in the waste collecting point, and to keep cleaning the container in particular in the case of waste of foodstuffs or similar. The filling in of said sacks is connected with the use frequency that changes both in the domestic use than in the industrial one and consequently changes the break in which the full sacks must be collected. Then, in generally, particularly in the industrial use of the waste containers, suitable operators, i.e. operators assigned to the cleaning, take the full sacks to change them in position with empty ones. This working has the necessity to have always at disposal refill sacks, to must take these refill sacks and to must place one by one inside each container with a lot of loss of time for the operators. This working, also in the domestic circle, is troublesome and with loss of time. The invented apparatus permits to rationalize this working and it permits to replace quickly the sacks in hygienic conditions so to be appreciated both for the user of only one container, i.e. in the domestic use, than to the operators who must empty a lot of waste containers. With the use of the invented apparatus, the big factories, the public administrations, considering in the use also the waste containers to be put onto the streets, the hotels, the companies with a lot of machine shop rejections and also the domestic use have greatly facilitated the replacement and reloading operations of said waste sacks. This with a solution that combines practicalness, hygiene and speed of realization of the requested operations and it gives big advantages in comparison with the solutions known in the prior art. The invented apparatus is to be realized in plastic material, in steel and in different polymers and it can be an apart body to be regulated in width or in the high to adapt the same to containers of every dimension and shape. In the embodiment consists of a new waste container arranged with the invented apparatus, it is provided a sack container body 1 inside lower part of the whole waste container 2.
It is to be noted that said sack container body 1 is to be integrated inside the waste container 2 so creating a new waste container or said sack container body can be realized as apart body 1A to be placed onto the bottom of already made waste container or it can be realized as a sole body with the waste container, i.e. consists of a space inside the same container without the side opening. The new waste container 2 with sack container body 1, to be with cylindrical or truncated cone shape, consists of a bottom 3 , in form of a circle, a square, a rectangle or other form, and of a side wall 4 in elevation and perpendicular to the bottom 3 in the case of a cylindrical shape or with an angulation in the case of truncated cone shape. This new waste container 2, i.e. with the sack container body 1 part inside, then provides a door 5 in the lower part of the side wall 4. Said door 5 equipped with hinges 6 in the lower part, with an outside knob 7 and with joined fastening 8 with lock 9. The sack container body 1 has at its inside a cylindrical seat 10 where are inserted the rolled up sacks 11 of normal use and supplied already rolled up to the manufacturing. After to have positioned the sack roll 11 inside the cylindrical seat 10, the border of the first sack is taken out making crosses the same into the transversal opening 12 of the upper bottom 13. Said transversal opening 12 has mouth rims 14 that permit the normal taking out of a sack one at a time and they prevent together with the inside part of the upper bottom 13 the coming out of the roll. Said roll, infact, during the sack taking out rotates but it does not come out to the cylindrical seat 10. Moreover the rolled up sacks 11 have at the end of each sack a cut line 15 to help the tear. Taken out the border of the first sack from the opening 12, said sack is pulled upward to the upper opening of the waste container 2 and the sack border is folded around the upper border 16 of the waste container 2. In this way the steady placing of the sack inside the waste container 2 is determined with the possibility to put the waste till the filling of the sack. With the filled sack, the same is at the top closed and it is taken out. The taking out of the sack, bringing it in lifting, determines the unrolling and the dragging of the followed sack, united with the previous one, that comes to be with its month near the upper border 16 of the waste container 2 able to be folded in steady position. It is so created an use and changing continuity of the sacks not to be possible with what known in the prior art. And so in prosecution till to have used all the rolled up sacks. At this point, opened the door 5, it is put in position an other set of rolled up sacks so determining again the full efficiency of the invented waste container 1,2. In the above cited embodiment the sack container body 1 is part of the inside cylindrical surface of the whole container and it is upper delimited to the second bottom 13 with transversal opening 12. It is then provided a second embodiment to use the invented apparatus also in waste containers without outside door. In this embodiment the sack container body 1 A is realized integrated with the waste container in an apart space, i.e. as a double bottom with seat and inside door, or like an accessory, i.e. like a body separated to the container but having the lateral and lower outside shape to be corresponded with the shape of the waste container. In this case having no the possibility to put laterally the roll of sacks, the invented apparatus has onto the second bottom 2A a cylindrical seat 3A , able to contain the roll, a corresponding door 4A with lateral hinge 5A, joined lock 6A with lock 6B and a transversal opening 7A with month borders 8A from which the sacks are taken out. Then, in the opposite part of the lateral hinge 5A, a mamoò 9A is present to easy open the door 4A. Placed the roll 11A inside the cylindrical seat 3A and with the door 4A closed, the invented apparatus is prompt to be used. The function is the same of that described in the previous embodiment. The invented apparatus is to be used also in the case of sacks folded like a handkerchief instead of rolled up. In this case instead of a roll it is present a pile of sacks, united in the borders and with cuts able to help the tear with said pile placed inside the sack container body 1 for new containers or inside the sack container body 1A for common containers. In this case the new container has the door 5 wider and seat to be complementary to the shape of the sacks pile, i.e. a square or rectangular shape whereas the other components are the same.
Also the common container has a cubic or parallelepiped seat instead of the cylindrical seat 3A and all the other components are the same. The invented apparatus is illustrated in a merely indicative and not limiting way in the two embodiment and showing the system of use in the drawings of sheets 1, 2 and 3.
In sheet 1 figure 1 is perspective view of the waste container 2 with the outside door and with its bottom consisting of the sack container body 1. In sheet 2 figure 2 is view of the embodiment with sack container body 1A with inside door. In sheet 3 figure 3, 4 and 5 are views of the invented apparatus during its use. In particular the figure 3 is view of a sack placed inside the new waste container 2.
Figure 4 is view of the said full sack , closed and in lifting that automatically brings to the unrolling of the subsequent sack. Figure 5 is view of the full sack in taking out while the subsequent sack is coming in position for the subsequent use.

Claims

Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container characterized in that is provided a sack container body (1 or 1A) part or placed inside the lower part of a waste container (2 or 10A) where said sack container body (1 or 1A) is part or integrated with the waste container (2 or 10A) and it provides or not a side opening and that said sack container body (1A) is provided also as an apart body to be positioned on the bottom of waste container already in use.
Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that the sack container body (1) with side opening, to be with cylindrical or truncated-cone shape, consists of a bottom 3 and of a side wall (4) in elevation with a door (5) in the lower part with hinges (6) and an outside knob (7) and with joined fastening (8) with lock (9); and in that said sack container body (1) has at its inside a cylindrical seat (10) where, trough the door (5), the rolled up sacks (11) are inserted with taking out of the border of the first sack through the transversal opening (12) of the upper bottom (13) with mouth rims (14); and in that taken out the border of the first sack from the opening (12), said sack is pulled upward till the upper opening of the waste container (2) and the sack border is folded around the upper border (16).
Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that with the filled sack, the same is closed and it is taking out where said taking out, bringing it in lifting, determines the unrolling and the dragging of the following sack that comes to be with its mouth near the upper border (16) of the waste container (2) to be folded in steady position.
Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that the mouth rims (14) permit the normal taking out of a sack one at a time and they prevent together with the inside part of the upper bottom (13) the coming out of the roll that, during the taking out, rotates but it does not come out to the cylindrical seat (10).
Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that used all the rolled up sacks, a new set of sacks is put in position through the door (5).
Reloading apparatus of the sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that sack container body (1A) without lateral side has a cylindrical seat (3A), able to contain the roll, delimited to a second bottom (2A) with a door (4A) equipped with lateral hinge (5A) and joined lock (6A) with lock (6B), and with a transversal opening (7A) with mouth rims (8A) from which the sacks are taken out and with a handle (9A) to open the door (4A).
Reloading apparatus of sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that the sack container body (1A) is to be provided also like a body separated to the container and having the lateral and lower outside shape to be corresponded with the shape of the waste container.
Reloading apparatus of sack into the waste container, as per claim 1, characterized in that the use of sacks folded like a handkerchief instead of rolled ones is provided.