Patent classifications
B65F1/1452
BLOW MOLDED WASTE CART WITH HANDLE
A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body with a rear wall and a handle keyway formed in the rear wall and a handle installed in the keyway. The body may include a detent formed in the rear wall of the body that engages a projection formed on the handle assembly. The keyway may be formed of a number of spaced trapezoidal slots with undercut sections that mate with a plurality of spaced trapezoidal keys on the handle. The waste cart, as well as the handle assembly may be blow-molded.
SEMI-AUTONOMOUS TUG APPARATUS
A trash bin tug carried on a pair of drive wheels driven by reversible motors and carrying a swivel support arm projecting upwardly and rearwardly towards a bin. The support arm carries a latch which cooperates with the support arm and tug to, upon being latched, support the front of the bin elevated from the support surface.
The steps of selecting a tug with a support arm and carried on reversible drive wheels to be maneuvered from a remote control into position to engage a handle on a trash bin and latch onto the handle to elevate the front of the trash bin from the support surface.
Trash Can Assembly
A trash can assembly is provided. The trash can assembly provides a trash can facilitating the removal of trash through a bottom end, rather than an upper end of the trash can. The trash can assembly includes a tapering trash receptacle mountable onto a base and a securing mechanism enabling the trash receptacle to be twistably secured thereon via a plurality of notches disposed on the trash receptacle and a plurality of sockets disposed on the base. The base includes legs for immobilizing the trash receptacle when emptying and wheels for moving the trash can as desired. The base includes a watertight interior compartment sized to receive a box for storing trash bags. The trash can assembly further includes a trash bag having the same size and shape of the trash receptacle and including a length greater than the length of the trash receptacle.
Yard clean-up tools and methods
Knock down yard tools are provided which are made of flexible heavy duty sheet material joined to form a container for handling yard waste. Included are a truck bed carrier container, a skid container, a bagging container and a hand held carrier. In one embodiment, struts are provided which can be readily assembled to and disassembled from the sheet material to help hold the shape of the container. Preferably the struts are collapsible, and most preferably comprise sections held together and biased to assembly by elastic cord. In a preferred embodiment, a collection of such knock down yard tools are provided along with auxiliary tools for manipulating the yard waste and facilitate its placement in the knock down containers. The auxiliary tools include hand scoops a leaf press, and a gripper.
Medical waste container transport device and system
A transport device to removably receive a medical waste container for transport of the medical waste container includes a body having a base wall with at least one opening for receiving a medical waste container. A portion of the base wall defining the at least one opening is configured to engage and completely surround an exterior of the medical waste container. The body further includes a side wall extending from the base wall, the base wall and side wall together defining a cavity. A cover is movably coupled to the side wall and is movable between a closed position, in which the cover cooperates with the side wall to close a top of the cavity, and an open position, in which the cavity is open at the top.
REFUSE CARTS WITH RETENTION CORRAL
Refuse carts and refuse cart retention systems for use in retaining refuse carts inside a corral and transporting or emptying the carts when needed. The refuse cart retention system generally includes a retention corral and at least one large refuse cart and/or at least one small refuse cart. Various mechanisms for retaining refuse carts in the retention corral include retention structures to receive a segment of a refuse cart frame, and frame protrusions connected to the retention corral that can be placed in tight contact with a cutout in the sides of the refuse carts having a geometry substantially identical to that of the frame protrusions.
TRASH RECEPTACLE WITH ATTACHMENT STRAP
The present invention provides a waste receptacle comprising an outer bag having a flexible construction forming an opening at a top side and at least a pair of upper straps capable a third strap for retaining peripheral items, of attaching the receptacle to a rail, a lid attached at a top of bag to close the opening. The receptacle having an inner bag having a backbone circumferentially disposed around the inner bag to help maintain the inner bag in a generally cylindrical shape, the inner bag insertable through the opening of the outer bag and a pull string to disposed at the top of the inner bag being capable to cinch the top of the inner bag closed and a buoyant float member disposed in the outer bag.
BLOW MOLDED WASTE CART WITH MOLDED CIRCUMFERENTIAL COMPRESSION FLANGE
A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body with four upstanding side walls and corner sections therebetween, a floor, and a circumferential compression flange around the side walls and corner sections is disclosed. The waste cart may also include an axle and wheels mounted to a side wall and a handle assembly with lid also mounted to a side wall. The circumferential compression flange may have a generally consistent width and thickness at each of the side walls and corner sections and the lid rim meets the circumferential compression flange when the lid is closed. A method of forming a blow-molded waste cart body is also disclosed. The process includes melting a polymer material to form a parison, enclosing the parison in a main mold, pressurizing the parison within the mold and moving a secondary mold section onto the main mold squeezing the polymer outward to a gap between the secondary mold and main mold to form the circumferential flange.
Express Recycling Sack
An express recycling sack is provided. The recycling sack includes a collapsible frame and a flexible body attached to the frame. The recycling sack also includes a plurality of open drain apertures defined in the flexible body and a plurality of straps affixed to the flexible body. The recycling sack also includes a first flap having a toggle retained in and protruding perpendicularly therefrom and one or more additional flaps defining one or more flap apertures. The first flap and the one or more additional flaps are closeable to, in combination, close an opening of the recycling sack wherein, in a closed position of the first and one or more additional flaps, the toggle extends through each of the one or more flap apertures.