Collapsible frontward-tilting receptacle device

• US 8,662,345 B1
• Filed: 09/24/2012
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wen-Tsan Wang
• Original Assignee: Wen-Tsan Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Wen-Tsan
• Primary Examiner(s): Hicks, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): RUSH, KAREEN KAY
• Application Number:
  US13/624,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20140084017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 220/666, 220/6, 220/7, 220/4.01, 220/23.86, 220/23.83, 220/23.87, 220/810, 220/825, 229/123
• US Class Current: 220/825
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/14 Non-removable lids or covers
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/16 Lids or covers B65F1/1421 takes precedence; pedal or hand-lever operated for containers in general B65D
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 95/002 Baskets or bags specially adapted for holding or transporting laundry; Supports therefor

Abstract

A collapsible frontward-tilting receptacle device includes a stationary receiving body that defines an internal space and is collapsible and a movable receiving body that forms a receiving space. The stationary receiving body has a bottom on which a rigid movable bottom board is positioned. The stationary receiving body has a side wall to which a movable support board having a stop section is movably connected. A free end of the movable support board is connected to an opposite side wall of the stationary receiving body to serve as a top plate. The movable receiving body is received in the internal space of the stationary receiving body so that a front end of the bottom thereof is coupled to a front portion of the bottom of the stationary receiving body to allow a top opening of the movable receiving body to be rotated out of the stationary receiving body.

Claims

1. A collapsible frontward-tilting receptacle device, comprising:

a stationary receiving body, which is a rectangular body that is collapsible and forms an internal space, the stationary receiving body having a front side forming an opening in communication with the internal space, the stationary receiving body comprising a movable support board received therein and connected, in a movable manner, to one side thereof close to a top, the movable support board comprising a stop section, the movable support board having an edge forming an extension section that is bent in an opposite manner, the stationary receiving body forming in an opposite side thereof a through slot that receives the extension section to extend therethrough, the stationary receiving body having a bottom on which a movable bottom board is positioned, the movable bottom board comprising a fastening element mounted to a front portion of an upper surface thereof;

a movable receiving body, which forms a receiving space, the movable receiving body having a fastening band mounted to a front portion of a bottom thereof to engage and couple to the fastening element, whereby the movable receiving body is rotatable with respect to the stationary receiving body via the fastening band so as to have a top opening of the receiving space tilting frontward to project outside the stationary receiving body or retracted into the stationary receiving body, wherein when the movable receiving body projects frontward outside the stationary receiving body, the stop section engages and stops a circumference of the opening of the receiving space to limit a frontward tilting angle.

2. The collapsible frontward-tilting receptacle device according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element comprises a hook-and-loop fastening strip and the fastening band comprises a pad that is engageable with and coupled to the hook-and-loop fastening strip.

3. The collapsible frontward-tilting receptacle device according to claim 1 further comprising a receptacle basket receivable and positionable in the receiving space of the movable receiving body, the movable receiving body having opposite side walls that are made in a sloped form.