Garbage container apparatus

• US 5,090,585 A
• Filed: 03/12/1991
• Issued: 02/25/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elbert N. Power
• Original Assignee: Elbert N. Power
• Inventors: Power, Elbert N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US07/668,092
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 220/404, 220/908, 248/95, 248/99
• US Class Current: 220/495.04
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/062 having means for storing or dispensing spare bags
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/068 with means aiding the removal of the flexible insert
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/908 Trash container

Abstract

An apparatus wherein a container includes an annular skirt defining a channel between an upper terminal end of an associated container and the skirt, wherein mounted plug members are positioned for insertion into the skirt to arrest an upper terminal end portion of a flexible bag liner. Side walls of the container include removable plugs to prevent trapped air between the liner and an interior wall of the container. Modifications of the invention include a magazine storage cavity positioned underlying an upper floor of the container, with a magazine container within for selective removal of liners therefrom for securement to an interior surface of the associated container.

Claims

1. A garbage container apparatus comprising, in combination,

a container member, including a longitudinal axis and an elongate side wall, circumferentially aligned with said axis, the side wall including an upper terminal edge, with the side wall including an "L" shaped skirt mounted orthogonally to the upper terminal edge defining an annular channel between the skirt and the side wall, the annular channel containing a width spaced from the side wall defined by a predetermined width, and

a plurality of plug heads equally spaced relative to one another and mounted within the annular channel, wherein each of the plug heads is defined by a thickness equal to the predetermined width, and

the container member including a container floor orthogonally aligned relative to said axis, and

the side wall further including a plurality of equally spaced wall apertures directed through the side wall circumferentially oriented relative to one another defining a common circle whose center is coincident with the axis, each of the apertures defined by a predetermined diameter, and a plug member removably mounted within each of the apertures, each plug member defined by an external diameter substantially equal to the predetermined diameter, and each plug member including a coaxially aligned annular flange, and a tether line mounted fixedly to each plug member, and wherein each tether line is further mounted to the side wall.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1 which includes a strap member mounted to each of the plug heads, and each of the strap members includes a lower terminal edge, wherein each lower terminal edge is integrally mounted to the side wall below the annular channel.