Patent Application
20210403233
Many business offices deal with the disposal of confidential records. The current solution is to keep a shredder machine in the office where employees of the company may directly destroy such documents. Businesses may instead hire a company to do the paper shredding for them, which necessitates a secure place to keep the confidential documents until they can be picked up to be shredded. In both cases, the main concerns are that the documents stay confidential, and that the process is easy, appealing, and accessible to workers. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
The product of paper shredder has many makes and models from various companies but may include: up to 3 or up to 5 minutes of continual use before cool down, from up to 6 or up to 12 pieces of paper at a time, with a 3 or 4 gallon capacity bin. Such a machine does not facilitate ease of use for larger batches of paper, longer run times, or larger overall disposal capacity. Users may need to take time to separate smaller piles of paper to feed into the shredder, wait between shredding sessions, and frequently empty the small bin. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
There exists a need for a Business Confidential Records Secure Recycle Box that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The present invention is intended for commercial businesses to store their confidential papers in until the papers may be picked up and shredded with a private company. The present invention offers a higher level of security because the machine does not have a fixedly open drop slot. The recycle box looks appealing and can be placed in convenient areas in any work environment. The recycle box has a large loading capacity of up to 500 sheets of paper.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
A common paper shredder has a fixedly open slot on the top of the machine through which to insert papers. Such a fixedly open slot is often thin to secure the papers inside the bin. A moveable opening would improve appearance and use while maintaining security of the machine. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
Throughout the present disclosure the term secure is used to refer to restricted or limited access, accessible by the owner of the document and few or no others. The term recycle refers to the shredding and or micro-cutting of paper documents to then be recycled for reuse with other paper in a recycling facility.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the slider tray is made of pieces B, D, C, and E. Pieces B and E are static, unmoving. Piece C is the same width but half the length of piece E allowing it to form the vertical sides of a box while half of E forms the bottom horizontal side of the box. Thus, the person using the invention puts papers through the top cover B, to rest inside the slider box C and on top of the inside box E. When the handle is pushed, the spring tray slides D move the slider box C across the inside box E to the open portion of the same, underneath the solid panel of the top cover B.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
