Patent Application
20190248580
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The disclosure and prior art relates to securing devices and more particularly pertains to a new securing device for securing a garbage can to a wall.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pair of brackets. Each of the brackets may be attached to a vertical support surface and each of the brackets has a receiving space therein. The receiving space in each of the brackets insertably receives a handle of a garbage can. A pair of pins is provided and each of the pins removably engages an associated one of the brackets. Moreover, each of the pins retains the garbage can in the brackets thereby inhibiting the garbage can from being tipped.
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
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Each of the brackets 12 has a central panel 22 and a pair of outward panels 24 each extending away from the central panel 22 and each of the outward panels 24 is oriented perpendicular to the central panel 22. The outward panels 24 are spaced apart from each other on the central panel 22 to define the receiving space 16 extending between the outward panels 24. The central panel 22 corresponding to each of the brackets 12 abuts the vertical support surface 14 having the outward panels 24 corresponding to each of the brackets 12 being horizontally oriented.
Each of the outward panels 24 has an aperture 26 extending therethrough and the aperture 26 in each of the outward panels 24 is aligned with each other. Additionally, the aperture 26 in each of the outward panels 24 is spaced from the central panel 22. A pair of fasteners, such as bolts or the like, may extend the central panel 22 corresponding to each bracket and engage the vertical support surface 14 to couple each bracket to the vertical support surface 14.
A pair of pins 28 is provided and each of the pins 28 removably engages an associated one of the brackets 12 to retain the garbage can 20 in the brackets 12. In this way the brackets 12 and the pins 28 inhibit the garbage can 20 from being tipped. Each of the pins 28 extends through the aperture 26 in each of the outward panels 24 of the associated bracket. Each of the pins 28 includes a line 30 that is attached between the pin and the associated bracket such that each of the pins 28 is retained with the associated bracket. The line 30 may be a chain, cable and any other break resistant line 30.
In use, each of the brackets 12 is mounted to the vertical support surface 14 such that the outward panels 24 on each of the brackets 12 are horizontally oriented. Additionally, the brackets 12 are spaced apart from each other a distance that is less than an overall length of the handle 18 on the garbage can 20. The handle 18 of the garbage can 20 is positioned in the receiving space 16 in each bracket and each of the pins 28 is engaged to the brackets 12. In this way the brackets 12 and the pins 28 inhibit the garbage can 20 from being tipped over by wind, animals and other tipping forces thereby reducing the likelihood that the garbage can 20 will spill.
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.
