Waste Storage Device

• US 20110232240A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sangenic International Ltd. (Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sangenic International Ltd. (Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fitton, Nicholas Gerald, Lomax, Geoff, Cramp, Benjamin Douglas Vinal, Kankiwala, Nishpank, Rontree, Scott, Swan, Julian, Lacy, Graham Keith
• Granted Patent: US 8,783,499 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 53/576
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/062 having means for storing or dispensing spare bags
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/10 with refuse filling means, e.g. air-locks
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/1405 Compressing means incorporated in, or specially adapted for, refuse receptacles presses in general B30B
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2210/167 Sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2210/1675 by twisting, e.g. of a flexible tube
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2240/132 Diapers

Abstract

A waste storage device is provided including a waste storage cassette receiving chamber (132) for receiving a cassette (172) rotatable within the chamber and containing tubing for enveloping waste. The device further includes a waste inlet and a throat area therebetween, wherein a releasable gripping assembly (155, 158, 159, 168) is provided in the throat area and arranged for actuation between a released configuration defining an aperture for passage of waste therethrough and a gripping configuration defining a restriction in the throat area.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A waste storage cassette for a waste storage device for storing tubing for enveloping waste, the cassette comprising a wall defining an aperture through which, in use, tubing passes and a formation for engaging, in use, with a cooperating formation on the waste storage device for actuation of a releasable gripping assembly in the waste storage device.

26. A waste storage cassette as in claim 25 further comprising engagement means for engaging with a cooperating engagement means on a waste cassette rotator.

27. A waste storage cassette as in claim 25 wherein the formation on the cassette is arranged to rotatably engage with a cooperating formation on a releasable gripping assembly in the waste storage device.

28. A waste storage cassette as in claim 27 wherein the waste storage cassette further comprises a second formation arranged to rotatably engage with the cooperating formation on the releasable gripping assembly for actuation of the releasable assembly from a gripping configuration to a released configuration.

39. A waste storage device comprising a waste storage cassette receiving chamber and a waste storage cassette as in claim 25.

29. A waste storage cassette for a waste storage device for storing tubing for enveloping waste, the cassette comprising an outer wall and an inner wall defining an aperture through which, in use, tubing passes and a plurality of projections extending at least partially from the outer wall towards the inner wall.

30-38. -38. (canceled)