Combination bathroom scale and wastebasket

• US 3,321,036 A
• Filed: 10/03/1966
• Issued: 05/23/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bertrand N. Trombley, Joseph J. Keenan
• Original Assignee: Bertrand N. Trombley, Joseph J. Keenan
• Inventors: Keenan, Joseph J., Trombley, Bertrand N.
• Application Number:
  US04/583,744
• Time in Patent Office: 232 Days
• US Class Current: 177/245
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/06 Paper baskets refuse receptacles B65F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/00 Weighing apparatus or methods adapted for special purposes not provided for in the preceding groups electric measuring arrangements involving comparison with a reference value G01R17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/44 for weighing persons

Claims

1. A COMBINATION WASTEBASKET AND BATHROOM SCALE DEVICE, COMPRISING A WASTEBASKET INCLUDING AN IMPERFORATE TUBULAR OUTER SHELL HAVING OPEN UPPER AND LOWER ENDS, AN IMPERFORATE TUBULAR INNER SHELL HAVING OPEN UPPER AND LOWER ENDS, MEANS SEALINGLY JOINING THE UPPER PERIPHERAL EDGES OF THE INNER AND OUTER SHELLS SO THAT SAID INNER SHELL IS SPACED SYMMETRICALLY INWARDLY OF THE OUTER SHELL, A CONCAVO-CONVEX LOWER WALL MEMBER HAVING ITS CONCAVE SURFACE FACING UPWARDLY AND HAVING AN ANNULAR FLANGE INTEGRALLY FORMED WITH THE PERIPHERAL PORTION AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY THEREFROM, MEANS SECURING THE UPPER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF THE LOWER WALL MEMBER WITH THE LOWER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF THE INNER SHELL MEMBER, MEANS FOR SECURING THE LOWER EDGE OF SAID OUTER SHELL AND SAID LAST-MENTIONED FLANGE, THE LOWER EDGE OF SAID OUTER SHELL AND SAID FLANGE ON SAID LOWER WALL MEMBER PROJECTINGH DOWNWARDLY BEYOND SAID LOWER WALL MEMBER, SAID INNER SHELL, OUTER SHELL AND BOTTOM WALL MEMBER BEING FORMED OF A PLASTIC MATERIAL, A SCALE DEVICE INCLUDING A SCALE HOUSING HAVING A BOTTOM WALL WITH AN UPSTANDING PERIPHERAL WALL SECURED THERETO AND BEING FORMED OF A PLASTIC MATERIAL, A WEIGHING PLATFORM POSITIONED INTERIORLY OF THE UPSTANDING PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID SCALE. WEIGHING MECHANISM IN SAID HOUSING AND SUPPORTING SAID WEIGHING PLATFORM, AN ANNULAR RETAINING AND SUPPORTING MEMBER SECURED TO THE UPPER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID SCALE HOUSING AND PROJECTING INTERIORLY THEREOF, WHEREBY THE LOWER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID WASTEBASKET, DEFINED BY THE INTERENGAGING PORTIONS OF SAID OUTER SHELL AND LOWER WALL MEMBER FLANGE, ENGAGES AND IS SUPPORTED BY SAID ANNULAR RETAINING AND SUPPORTING MEMBER, SAID WASTEBASKET WHEN IN SUPPORTED RELATION ON SAID SCALE HOUSING HAVING THE LOWER WALL MEMBER THEREOF SPACED ABOVE THE SCALE PLATFORM AND HAVING ITS OUTER SHELL DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIALLY CO-EXTENSIVE RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF THE SCALE HOUSING.