Dispensing bin

• US 3,083,879 A
• Filed: 03/20/1959
• Issued: 04/02/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarence B. Coleman
• Original Assignee: Clarence B. Coleman
• Inventors: Coleman, Clarence B.
• Application Number:
  US03/800,865
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 Days
• US Class Current: 222/143
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 88/30 specially adapted to facilitate transportation from one utilisation site to another collapsible hoppers B65D88/52

Claims

1. A TRANSPORTABLE STORAGE AND DISPENSING BIN FOR USE WITH A FORK LIFT COMPRISING, A POLYGONAL CONTAINER HAVING SIDE WALLS JOINED AT VERTICALLY EXTENDING CORNERS, AND DOWNWARDLY CONVERGING BOTTOM WALLS DEPENDING FROM SAID SIDE WALLS AND BEING FORMED WITH A DISPENSING PORT, A PLURALITY OF LEGS DEPENDING FROM SAID SIDE WALLS AT SAID CORNERS AND SUPPORTING SAID CONTAINER AND SAID DISPENSING PORT IN AN ELEVATED POSITION, A PLURALITY OF BRACKETS SECURED TO AND REINFORCING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SAID SIDE WALLS AND LEGS AT SAID CORNERS, A PAIR OF FORK LIFT BEARING MEMBERS SECURED TO SAID BRACKETS INTERMEDIATE THE HEIGHT OF THE LEGS AND MOUNTED IN RELATIVELY ELEVATED HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING PARALLEL RELATION FOR RESTING ON AND FOR LIFTING BY A FORK LIFT, AND A PAIR OF SKID RUNNERS SECURED TO THE LOWER ENDS OF SAID LEGS AND MOUNTED IN PARALLEL RELATION TO EACH OTHER AND TO SAID FORK LIFT BEARING MEMBERS, THE DISPENSING PORT BEING AT AN ELEVATION BETWEEN THE BEARING MEMBERS AND THE SKID RUNNERS.