Security scrap storage container or bin

• US 4,275,830 A
• Filed: 11/09/1979
• Issued: 06/30/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard J. Mcdonald
• Original Assignee: Richard J. Mcdonald
• Inventors: McDonald, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zugel, Francis K.
• Application Number:
  US06/093,148
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 232/43.1, 232/43.2, 232/44, 232/45, 248/134, 248/143, 248/139
• US Class Current: 232/43.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 65/24 for manual tilting of barrels or casks

Abstract

Large tiltable and transportable storage container or bin in which valuable scrap material, such as scrap lengths of copper cable, is deposited has a "one-way" deposit opening on its top which is closed by a hinged cover and hood which obstruct access to the interior of the bin in the open, closed, and all intermediate positions of the cover. Scrap lengths of copper cable are placed on the cover when in its open position, and are deposited by upending the cover to its closed position. Deposit opening, cover and hood have particular size and location on a top plate of the bin, to facilitate loading. Top area of bin also includes an unloading opening, preferably of particular extent, which is closed by a lockable cover.

Claims

1. In a tiltable storage bin adapted to receive and store scrap lengths of copper cable or like materials and having a bin body including a front wall, a back wall, and respective side walls whose upper edges together define a top area of the bin body, and a bottom wall, and a base frame on which said bin body is mounted for tilting movement for unloading the bin body, the improvement comprising a top plate extending between and attached to said side wall upper edges and to said front wall upper edge leaving an open unloading portion of said bin body top area adjacent to said back wall and extending between said side walls, said top plate having means defining an elongated deposit opening therethrough and extending substantially parallel to said bin body front wall for depositing materials in said bin body, said deposit opening having respective parallel front and rear edges and end edges extending therebetween, each of said front and end edges of said deposit opening being spaced inwardly a distance away from its associated bin body wall, an upstanding security deposit cover hood attached to said top plate adjacent to said rear edge of the deposit opening and including vertical end plate portions attached to said top plate respectively adjacent to said end edges of the deposit opening, said hood projecting upwardly from said top plate and forwardly in the direction of said front edge of the deposit opening to present a bin deposit area facing substantially towards said front wall of the bin body, a pivotable security deposit cover having hinge means connecting the cover to and along the length of said front edge of said deposit opening for movement between an open position and a closed position of the cover, said cover comprising a first plate portion extending from said cover hinge substantially the width of said deposit opening to said hood for closing said deposit opening when said cover is in its open position, and a second plate portion extending from said cover hinge in direction towards said front wall of the bin body and lying substantially adjacent to said top plate for receiving said materials when said cover is in its said open position and having size to close said bin deposit area provided by said hood when said cover is in its closed position, said cover plate portions being disposed with respect to each other whereby, when said cover is pivoted on said hinge to its said closed position, said cover plate portions are disposed to drop said materials thereon into said bin body, said cover plate portions further being disposed with respect to each other and with respect to said hood to obstruct access by the hand to the interior of said bin body via said deposit opening when said security deposit cover is in both of its said open and closed positions and in all intermediate positions of said cover, and an openable unloading cover covering said open top area portion of said bin body and having lock means for locking said unloading cover in a closed position thereof covering said open top area portion, said upper edges of said bin body side walls having respective horizontal edge portions extending outwardly from said front wall upper edge, and respective diagonal edge portions extending downwardly and rearwardly from the respective of said horizontal edge portions to said rear wall of the bin body, said top plate extending rearwardly of said hood, and said unloading cover having a forward edge having hinge means hingedly attaching the cover on and along the length of said top plate rearward edge, said unloading cover extending downwardly and rearwardly to said rear wall of the bin body and between said respective diagonal edge portions of said bin body side walls when the cover is in its closed position.

2. The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said first and second plate portions of said security deposit cover are disposed at a fixed included angle of substantially 135°

with respect to each other facing in the upward direction of said bin body.

3. The improvement according to claim 2, wherein said front edge of said deposit opening is spaced away from said bin body front wall a distance substantially equal to the height of projection of said hood above said top plate.

4. The improvement according to claim 1 which further comprises lock means on said hood and said deposit cover for locking said deposit cover in its said closed position.

5. The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said top plate rearward edge is located at an intermediate location along, and beyond the midpoints of, the lengths of said respective side wall horizontal edge portions, said unloading cover having a horizontal portion including said forward edge, and an angular portion extending downwardly and rearwardly from said horizontal portion, said portions of the unloading cover having size and fixed angular disposition with respect to each other whereby said cover conforms to the shape of said open unloading portion of the bin body top area when the cover is in its closed position.