Patent Application
20230057279
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The disclosure relates to collection devices and more particularly pertains to a new collection device for collecting and transporting debris. The present invention discloses a
The prior art relates to collection devices. The prior art includes tubes with handles, and semispherical bags with handles. What is lacking in the prior art is a substantially cuboid shaped collapsible bag having a pair of poles along opposed side proximate to a top of the bag, wherein one opposed side can be position on a surface, allowing debris to be maneuvered into the bag. The poles act as handles. Lifting with the handles substantially closes the top.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shell, which defines an interior space. The shell is flexible and thus collapsible. The shell has a top, which is open so that the top is configured for insertion of articles, such as debris, into the interior space. A pair of sleeves is engaged singly to and extends along opposed sides of the shell proximate to the top. Each of a pair of poles is selectively insertable into a respective sleeve so that opposed terminal sections of the pole protrude from the sleeve. The opposed terminal sections are configured to be grasped in hands of user, positioning the user to lift the shell and the articles.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
Each of the pair of poles 14 is selectively insertable into a respective sleeve 20 so that opposed terminal sections 24 of the pole 14 protrude from the sleeve 20. Each of a set of caps 26 is engaged to an opposed terminus 28 of respective pole 14 so that each opposed terminus 28 of each pole 14 is capped. The opposed terminal sections 24 are configured to be grasped in hands of user, positioning the user to lift the shell 12 and the articles. The debris collection device 10 is anticipated to be of particular use in collecting and transporting debris, such as yard waste, although the present invention also anticipates the debris collection device 10 finding utility in collection and transportation of other articles, such as grain, snow, sand, and the like.
Each of a pair of first creases 30 is positioned in a respective opposed end 32 of the shell 12 substantially equally distant from the opposed sides 22 so that the opposed ends 32 are foldable. A second crease 34 is positioned in a bottom 36 of the shell 12 substantially equally distant from the opposed sides 22 so that the bottom 36 is foldable. The bottom 36 may be arcuate and the opposed ends 32 may be arcuate proximate to the bottom 36 so that the shell 12 is substantially U-shaped when viewed from a respective opposed end 32. The present invention also anticipates the shell 12 being alternatively shaped, such as cuboid shaped, disc shaped, and the like.
Each of a pair of cutouts 38 is positioned in a respective sleeve 20 substantially equally distant from opposed endpoints 40 of the respective sleeve 20. The cutout 38 is configured to facilitate insertion of a respective pole 14 through the respective sleeve 20.
In use, the debris collection device 10 enables a debris collection method 42. As shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
