Waste organizing cabinet

• US 6,209,978 B1
• Filed: 08/05/1999
• Issued: 04/03/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ghulam Murtaza Khan
• Original Assignee: Ghulam Murtaza Khan
• Inventors: Khan, Ghulam Murtaza
• Primary Examiner(s): HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE
• Application Number:
  US09/368,524
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 312/330.1, 312/270.1, 312/270.3, 312/273, 312/274, 312/212, 312/290, 312/328, 312/301, 312/304, 312/334.1, 312/334.13, 312/348.3, 312/348.4, 220/500, 220/909, 220/23.4
• US Class Current: 312/330.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 77/18 by special arrangements for accommodating removable containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/006 Rigid receptacles stored in an enclosure or forming part of it
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/1436 having a waste receptacle withdrawn upon opening of the enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/60 Glass recycling

Abstract

A waste organizing cabinet for recyclable materials. The upper working surface of the cabinet can be used to cut or otherwise treat food products. Below this upper surface is a first holding frame for a pull-out sliding drawer that rests on cabinet rails. Side meshed baskets placed within the holding frame form a series of separated compartments of the frame and placeable within each of the drawers. Each basket is used for separately receiving either: non recyclable waste food products, plastic materials, tin, glass, or paper products. Several different arrangements of the baskets within the drawer may be used to differently arrange the baskets within the framework of the drawer. As the frame and baskets are pulled out, spaced rails have stops to engage fixed frame rails to prevent further movement. Below this first drawer is a second slidable pull out drawer that may have several different holding frames compartments for the individual baskets. A plastic cutter with a surface scrapper can be used on the cabinet'"'"'s upper work surface of the cabinet to, respectively, cut plastic products into pieces or scrap non-recyclable waste into one of the baskets below.

Claims

1. A waste organizing unit comprising:

a first rigid holding frame assembly for retaining a plurality of individual baskets, said frame assembly having side defining frame members, spaced cross frame members, and a joined front surface and bottom surface;

a cabinet having an upper work surface and internal supports to slidably receive and vertically support said first holding frame assembly; and

a first set of individual substantially identical baskets each of which is adapted to receive recyclable products, each of said baskets being insertable into the holding frame assembly between the frame'"'"'s spaced cross frame members to move with the holding frame relative to the cabinet;

each of said first set of baskets having four joined meshed sides, an openable top mounted on the sides and a closed bottom surface under the sides;

a second rigid holding frame assembly for retaining a plurality of individual baskets, said second holding frame assembly having side defining frame members, spaced cross frame members, and a joined front surface and bottom surface;

said cabinet having a second set of internal supports to slidably receive and vertically support said second holding frame assembly;

a second set of individual substantially identical baskets each of which baskets is adapted to receive either waste or recyclable products, each of said second set of baskets being insertable into the second holding frame assembly between the second frame'"'"'s spaced cross frame members to move with the second frame assembly in the second set of internal supports relative to the cabinet;

each of said second set of baskets having four joined meshed sides, an openable top mounted on the sides and a closed bottom surface under the sides; and

the openable top surface of each of the baskets in said first set and second set having a hinge joined to the meshed sides.

2. The waste organizing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein there are more than three baskets in said first and second set of baskets.

3. The waste organizing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cabinet'"'"'s upper work surface is fixedly secured to an existing counter.