US2546797A - Holder for garbage containers - Google Patents

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March 27, 1951 J. R. SWISHER ET AL HOLDER FOR GARBAGE CONTAINERS Filed March 15, 1948 JAMES A SOL/LE5 INVENTOR.

Patented Mar. 2'7, 1951 OFFICE HOLDER FOR GARBAGE CONTAINERS Joseph R. Swisher and James A. Soules, Decatur, Ill.

Application March 13, 1948, Serial No. 14,678

2 Claims.

This invention relates to garbage pail holders and more particularly to such that can be mounted on a wall, fence or an upright post or other suitable support.

'An important object of the invention is to simplify'the construction so as to facilitate its inanufacture and minimize the cost thereof, and at the same time produce a device of its kind which is easily kept clean, is especially sanitary on the whole and is practical and highly efiicient for the purpose intended. With these and other objects and advantages to be. attained, as will hereinafter more fully appear in the following description, the invention consist in the parts and combinations and arrangement of parts described in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrative of a practical but non-limiting adaptation of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the holder device with a conventional garbage pail placed thereon, the holder device being shown in full lines and the pail in dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the parts shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a top plan view;

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the horizontal supporting base member of the holder device alone and detached from the frame structure; and

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the transverse support members that are provided on the horizontal supporting base member in the complete frame assembly of the holder device.

Referrin now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 6 designates an elongated, relatively narrow, upright bar which is apertured at intervals lengthwise thereof, as at I, so as to receive securin screws or bolts (not shown) by which the bar can be fastened securely to a wall, fence or a post or other support. To secure lightness with ample rigidity and strength in the bar 6 it is shown as marginally flanged throughout its longitudinal sides and ends, thus making it flatfaced on its outer side and hollow on its inner side, with its marginal stiffening flanges disposed inwardly so as to abut the face of the wall, fence, posts or the like to which the bar is attached in use of the holder device.

Bolted, as at 8, or otherwise securely and rigidly fastened to the lower portion of said bar 6, is a horizontal supporting base or bracket member 9. This member 9, as shown, is in the form of a rigid cast metal frame having a rectangular margin- 2 ally flanged and vertically channeled socket portion II] which fits over the aforesaid upright bar member 6 and is provided with an aperture I I to register with a corresponding aperture obviously provided in the barmember to receive the securing bolt 8 just above described.

The supporting base or bracket member 9, as shown, comprises two outer side rails I2 extending outward from the socket portion I0 and crossconnected near their outer ends by a transverse bar I3, said side rails I2 having upturned outer end portions I4. The transverse bar I3 is rigidly connected to the socket portion I0 bya medial longitudinal bar I5, said medial bar I5 having a triangular gusset portion or reinforcing rib I6 on its underside. The inner end ll of this portion I6 is squared and abuts the adjacent lower, outer face portion of the upright main frame bar 6 of the holder device (see Figures 1 and 2).

Obviously, the open frame-like supporting base element 9 is, in itself, rigid, and the peculiarly marginally flanged and channeled attaching provision of the socket portion I0, together with the particular end abutment I! of the medial bar reinforcement I6, makes for lightnes of structure of the element and strength and steadiness in its attachment to said upright main frame bar 6. This is of particular advantage because said supporting base element 9 has to carry the weight of the garbage pail whether the same be loaded or unloaded.

In Figures 1, 2 and 3, the garbage pail is desingated by the numeral I8 as in place on the holder device and it is illustrated in dotted lines. As shown, the base element 9 (see Figure l) is of a length to extend diametrically under and project slightly beyond the pail I8 and the upturned ends I4 of the side rails I2 of said element 9 serve as stops to normally prevent the pail I8 from sliding off said element 9.

To support the cover I9 of pail I8 when removed from the pail a chain or other suitable flexible element of cord 20 is fastened at one end to the upper end portion of the upright main frame bar 6 of the holder device, as at ZI, the other end of the element 20 being attached, as at 22, to the handle loop 23 of said cover I9. In this way the cover I9 can be obviously removed from the pail I8 at will and allowed to hang by the chain or flexible supporting element 20 whenever access to the pail I8 is desired or it becomes necessary to remove the pail from the holder device.

Adequate provision for supplemental transverse Preferably, the attachment of the members 2 1 is adjustable on the base 918%?1l1ltjQLiAiS shown A (see Figure 4) the two side rails I2 and medial bar [5 of the element 9 are I'eess'el, as at 26,;ti)

horizontal legs of the members;2;are fitted horie zontally slidable. As shown, the recessed seat it provide seats in which the laterally overlapped relation with provision for relative longitudinal adjustment cross-wise on said horizontal base element and their other legs vertical and dis posed laterally from opposite sides of the base element.

2. The herein described holder device for garbage pails and the like, comprising an upright bar for attachment to a supporting wall face or the like, said bar being marginally flanged rearwardly and h'avihg a "flat front face,-an='open framelike horizontal base element having a vertically channeled socket portion at its inner end attached-to the lower portion of said upright bar, a pair of transversely spaced apart longitudinal side rails extending forward from said socket portion with upturned outer ends and cross-connected near said ends, a medial longitudinal bar portion 26 of the medial bar 15 of theeIeinefitS is widened and provided with a pairof screwthreaded apertures-'27 to receive securing screws "28' (see Figure 3") that are passed through len- *gitudi-nal slots "29 provided therefor {in the compa'nion 'horizonta-l leg portions of the member 24.

this way the rhember-sikcanbe obviously adjusted transversely of the base element -9 and fastened by the screws 28 in such adjusted position. -Frorn the foregoing-Eds apparent that-a simple yet practical and eificient, sanitary holder "1-3 like'su'p'port including an iiprig-htbar for attach-.

merit to .a wan: face or other vertical -supporting surface, a horizontal base element -attached at its inner end to the lower portion of said'upr ight fb a'r and having upturned fpail retainer provision "at its outer "eiid, and {a pairor transverse siip- 'pleiriental supporting members of "substantially L-shape and respectively-mounted with-one "of their legs horizontal and secured inside byside connectingsaid'socket portion with the crosseo'nhecti'on between said side rails and having a depending, longitudinal, reinforcing rib the inner end=of which i squared and abuts the adjacent outer'face portion of said upright bar, said side rails and medial lengitudinal bar being grecessed in transverse alinement, and (a pairof L- shape supporting members with one leg of each upstanding and-projected laterally from the base element and the outer legs of said suppQrting members :horiaontal .in side-by-side :relation to each other "and seated slidably adjustable .in the recessed portions of said base element, the honizontal legs of said h-strapesupportingmembers having longitudinal slots through which releasable fasteners are inserted and'held .inlapertures provided in the recessed portions of vtl1e loase--ele ment. JOSEPH R. .SW ISHER.

JAMES-A. SOULES;

aeeeaewoes *oiriio The following references are of record in "the file ot this :p-atent-I UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,448,456 Niskanen ,et a1. Aug. 31, 11948

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