Garbage container, in particular, a large-volume garbage container with an identification unit

• US 5,392,926 A
• Filed: 03/25/1993
• Issued: 02/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fritz Schã¤Fer Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Fritz Schã¤Fer KG Einrichtungssysteme)
• Original Assignee: Fritz Schã¤Fer Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Fritz Schã¤Fer KG Einrichtungssysteme)
• Inventors: Schafer, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Dayoan, D. Glenn
• Application Number:
  US08/036,794
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 220/908, 220/909, 220/910, 220/911, 209/1, 209/2, 209/546, 209/569, 209/930
• US Class Current: 209/546
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/122 Features allowing the receptacle to be lifted and subsequently tipped by associated means on a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/1484 relating to the adaptation of receptacles to carry identification means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 209/93 Municipal solid waste sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/908 Trash container

Abstract

A large-volume container has a receptacle, which is closed by a suspended cover, and an unloading catch, which is secured to the receptacle beneath its filling opening and which is formed as a collar-like hollow profile having a wall with an aperture, through which a radially expandable case of an identification unit is inserted into the cavity of the hollow profile.

Claims

1. A garbage container, comprising a collar-like hollow profile secured to said garbage container and having a wall with an aperture formed therein;

and an identification unit located in said hollow profile for cooperation with an identification system associated with an emptying device of a garbage collecting truck, said identification unit including a radially expandable case.

2. A garbage container according to claim 1, wherein said hollow profile forms an unloading catch.

3. A garbage container according to claim 1, wherein said case has an outer surface with sloping resilient ribs protruding therefrom.

4. A garbage container according to claim 3, wherein said case has a bottom, said resilient ribs have free ends which end above said bottom.

5. A garbage container according to claim 3, wherein the hollow profile has another wall located opposite the apertured wall, and the resilient ribs have a length that corresponds to a width between the opposite walls of said hollow profile.

6. A garbage container according to claim 3, wherein a rib-free outer surface portion is located between each pair of adjacent resilient ribs.

7. A garbage container according to claim 6, wherein each rib-free outer surface portion is provided with an outer recess.

8. A garbage container according to claim 7, wherein said recess extends from a top of said case to a bottom thereof with a decreasing depth.

9. A garbage container according to claim 4, wherein said bottom has lugs at a level thereof.

10. A garbage container according to claim 1, wherein said aperture and said case are cylindrical.

11. A garbage container according to claim 1, wherein said case is an injection-molded part.