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Illuminated trash receptacle

  • US 4,827,645 A
  • Filed: 08/11/1986
  • Issued: 05/09/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A combined trash collection receptacle and advertising display system comprising:

  • (a) a main trash receptacle frame including a plurality of side panel support members extending upwardly from a bottom member of said frame and terminating in an open peripheral top member thereof;

    (b) a plurality of advertising and information display panel assemblies each including a rigid and tough outer sheet of transparent material, a rigid and tough inner sheet of transparent material and an interposed sheet of positive film transparency material bearing advertising or informational matter, said panel assemblies being removably maintained between pairs of said panel support members and extending from the bottom member to the open peripheral top member of said main frame;

    (c) at least one photovoltaic cell solar panel assembly including a rigid and tough outer sheet of transparent material and an inner solar panel comprised of a multiplicity of photovoltaic cells adapted to receive solar radiation through said outer sheet of transparent material and generate electrical energy, said solar panel assembly being removably maintained between a pair of said panel support members and extending from the bottom member to the open peripheral top member of said main frame;

    (d) an annular wall positioned within said main receptacle frame, said wall being inwardly spaced from said display panel assemblies and said solar panel assembly and defining therewith an outer annular lighting space, and said wall itself defining a central trash reception zone within said main frame;

    (e) electrical light producing equipment means within said annular lighting space for back lighting said display panel assemblies and thereby illuminating the positive film transparency material of said assemblies;

    (f) electric storage battery means within said main frame below said central trash reception zone and isolated therefrom;

    (g) control means interconnecting said solar panel assembly and said storage battery means and directing the storage of electrical energy generated by said solar panel assembly to said battery means for storage therein and interconnecting said battery means with said light producing equipment means for controlling and timing the supply of electrical energy from said battery means to said light producing equipment;

    (h) an annular top wall spanning and enclosing the annular lighting space between the annular wall within said main receptacle and the peripheral top member of said main receptacle frame to protect the electrical light producing equipment means within said lighting space, said annular top wall having a central opening through which trash may be deposited within the central trash reception zone of said trash receptacle; and

    (i) a removable trash collection container within said trash reception zone for receiving trash deposited within said zone through the central opening of the annular top wall of said main receptacle frame.

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