US2429673A

US2429673A - Garbage and refuse disposal unit

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Publication number: US2429673A
Application number: US579119A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wesley J Davis
Original assignee: Wesley J Davis
Priority date: 1945-02-21
Filing date: 1945-02-21
Publication date: 1947-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 1964-10-28

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Oct. 28,1947. 'w'. J. DAVIS 2,429,673

GARBAGE AND REFUSE D ISPOSAD UNIT Filed Feb. 21, 1945* INVENTOR. 17 V J9 22 774562 5 Y J. jflV/S- Patented Oct. 28, 1947 UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE r 2,429,673 GARBAGE AND REFUSE DISPOSAL UNIT Wesley J. Davis, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application February 21, 1945, Serial No. 579,119

1 Claim. 7 1

My invention relates to means for the convenient handling and disposal of garbage and refuse and has for its principal-object to provide a simple, practical and inexpensive unitary structure built into the building wall, to the rear of the drainboard portion of the sink and including a pair of openings, normally closed by gravity doors, through which garbage, waste paper, sweepings and the like may be delivered into suitable receptacles located on the outside of the building or removably positioned ina compartment, located inthe building wall, below and to the rear of the sink.

Thus the receptacles for garbage, waste materials, sweepings and the like are normally hid from view and at the same time, said garbage and other household waste products may be easily and quickly delivered into their respective receptacles and the latter may be readily removed and their contents disposed of in the o dinary manner.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of a portion of a kitchen sink and the wall above same and showing the normally closed openings through which garbage, refuse and the like are discharged.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view looking into the chamber or compartment occupied by the garbage can and waste products receptacle.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the frames which surround the garbage and waste discharge openings.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, l designates the drain board of a conventional kitchen sink, I l the shelf above said drainboard and below windows l2, which latter rest on a sill l3.

Formed in wall l4 between drainboard l0 and shelf II are'openings l5, in which are seated U-shaped frames [6 of metal, plastic or the like having on their front edges flanges l1, which overlie the face of wall I4 around the openings l therein.

A horizontal top flange Ila connects the upper ends of the upright side members of frame, [1.

A door such as I8 is arranged in each frame I6,

withtrunm'ons l9 projecting from the upper corners of said door, outwardly through short 'vertical slots 26 formed in the upper ends of the side members of said frame, so that the door may be swung freely inward and outward in its frame, and then closed by gravity (see dotted lines Fig. 3).

The rear edge of (frame [6 overlies the inner upper portion of the receptacles positioned below and to the rear of the frames, thus insuring the discharge of all garbage and Waste products into their respective receptacles.

In order to normally hide the garbage and waste receptacles from view, there may be formed in the building wall, below shelf H and sill l3 and outwardly from the sink, a chamber such as 2i, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a frame 22, having a hinged door 23, same being shown in open position in Fig. 2.

Secured within this chamber, below one of the frames l6 and above the bottom of chamber 2| is a shelf 24 for a garbage can or receptacle 25 and removably positioned on the bottom of said chamber below the other frame is an open topped receptacle 26 adapted to receive waste paper, sweepings and other refuse.

Normally door 23 and gravity doors H! are closed so that the garbage and waste products contained in receptacles are stored in a weather proof and insect proof compartment and at the same time said receptacles are hid from the view of a person or persons working in, or passing through the kitchen or room in which the sink is located.

To deliver garbage and waste products into receptacles 25 and 26, it is only necessary to apply sufficient pressure to the doors l8 to swing same inward and after said garbage and waste have dropped from the rear edges of the lower plates of frames I6, said doors I8 will, by gravity, return to their normal closed positions.

Where it is not feasible to provide a compartment such as 2| in the building wall, the garbage and waste receptacles such as 25 and 26 may be positioned on the outside of the building adjacent the wall and directly below the framed disposal openings.

Gravity door I8 is mounted so as to swing freely inward through the frame l6 in order that it may, from time to time, be conveniently cleansed and polished.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a garbage and refuse disposal unit that is simple in structure, inexpensive of manufacture, and

3 Very efiective in performing the functions for which it is intended.

It will be understood that minor changes in the size, dorm and construction of the various parts of my improved garbage and refuse disposal unit, may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of the invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

In a garbage and refuse disposal unit, the combination with a building wall and a drain board positioned against the inner face of said wall, said Wall having an opening above said drain wall, of a plate positioned against the inner face of said wall and provided with an opening which registers with the opening in said wall, a shelf projecting from said plate through the opening in said wall in horizontal alignment with the top of the drainboard, vertical flanges projecting from said plate, to the sides of the opening therein, through the opening in said wall, the upper ends of which flanges are provided with notches adjacent said Wall, the lower ends of opening therein.

WESLEY J. DAVIS.

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