Patent Application
20240278958
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The disclosure relates to containers and more particularly pertains to a new container for providing a standing aid.
The prior art relates to containers and includes a variety of containers having a handle located within a center of the container. Known prior art does not allow a container having a handle act as a standing aid for a user moving from a kneeling position to a standing position.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a support being configured for assisting a user position from a kneeling position to a standing position when a hand of the user presses downwardly on the support against a ground surface. A container is removably coupled to the support and encloses a receiving space. The container is configured for removably containing gardening articles within the receiving space. A coupler releasably fastens the support to the container.
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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An elongated shaft 36 is coupled to the handle 24 and is typically positioned perpendicular relative to the grip 26. A top end 38 of the elongated shaft 36 is coupled to the central section 34 of the rigid frame 28 and a mounting plate 42 is coupled to a bottom end 40 of the elongated shaft 36. The top end 38 may be inserted within a first receptacle 41 formed within the central section 34 of the rigid frame 28 and the bottom end 40 of the elongated shaft 36 may be inserted within a second receptacle 43 mounted to a top surface 46 of the mounting plate 42. The top end 38 and bottom end 40 may be retained in a fixed position relative to the rigid frame 28 and to the mounting plate 42 by a pair of fasteners 45, wherein the fasteners 45 secures the top 38 and bottom 40 ends within the first 41 and second 43 receptacles respectively. The mounting plate 42 is positioned parallel relative to the grip 26 and a plurality of holes 44 extends through a top surface 46 and a bottom surface 48 of the mounting plate 42. Each of the holes 44 are typically positioned within a respective one of a plurality of corners 50 of the mounting plate 42, wherein each of the holes 44 are equally spaced from the elongated shaft 36 located in a center 52 of the mounting plate 42.
A container 54 is removably coupled to the support 12 and encloses a receiving space 56. The container 54 may be configured for removably containing gardening articles 58 within the receiving space 56. The gardening articles 58 typically include hand shovels, hand rakes, plant seeds, or any conventional gardening article. The container 54 includes a base wall 60 and a perimeter wall 62 is coupled to and extends upwardly from the base wall 60. A top edge 64 of the perimeter wall 62 defines an opening into the receiving space 56 of the container 54. The base wall 60 may have a square shape 66, a rectangular shape 68, a circular shape 70, or an oval shape 72, wherein the perimeter wall 62 has a square shape 66, a rectangular shape 68, a circular shape 70, or an oval shape 72 respectively. An upper surface 74 of the base wall 60 normally abuts to the bottom surface 48 of the mounting plate 42. A plurality of apertures 76 extends through the upper surface 74 and a lower surface 78 of the base wall 60 and each aperture 76 of the base wall 60 is typically aligned to a respective one of the plurality of holes 44 of the mounting plate 42 when the mounting plate 42 abuts the base wall 60.
A coupler 80 releasably fastens the support 12 to the container 54. The coupler 80 normally comprises a plurality of fastening screws 82 being insertable through the plurality of holes 44 of the mounting plate 42 and the plurality of apertures 76 of the base wall 60, wherein the plurality of fastening screws 82 fastens the support 12 to the container 54. Each of the fastening screws 82 is inserted through a respective one of the plurality of holes 44 and the plurality of apertures 76 from the top surface 46 of the mounting plate 42 through the lower surface 78 of the base wall 60 of the container 54. The coupler 80 may comprise another conventional fastener, such as an adhesive material being positioned between the bottom surface 48 of the mounting plate 42 and the upper surface 74 of the base wall 60, wherein the adhesive material adheres the mounting plate 42 to the base wall 60.
In use, the receiving space 56 of the container 54 is configured to typically contain gardening articles 58, wherein the standing assist and container 54 assembly 10 is configured to be used when the user 14 is gardening. The user 14 may be assisted when positioning from a kneeling position 16 to the standing position 18 by grabbing the handle 24 and pressing downwardly on the handle 24 to push the user 14 upwardly from the ground surface 22.
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.
