Patent Application
20250136360
The disclosure relates to trash receptacles and more particularly pertains to a new trash receptacle for storing garbage and other objects.
Myriad trash receptacles are disclosed by the prior art, but the prior art fails to describe such a trash receptacle which includes a storage compartment below a garbage-holding container with a drawer that can slide either of two lateral directions with respect to the container to access the drawer's contents.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a container with a base wall and a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall is coupled to and extends upwardly from the base wall, and an upper edge of the perimeter wall defines an opening to the container. A storage compartment is coupled to the base wall of the container and comprises a tubular wall and a drawer. The tubular wall defines a channel which extends laterally with respect to the container and defines a pair of apertures to the channel which are laterally spaced with respect to the container. The drawer is slidably coupled to the tubular wall.
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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A liner 38 is removably positionable in the container 12. The liner 38 has a bottom wall 40 and a peripheral wall 42, the peripheral wall 42 being coupled to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall 40. A top edge 50 of the peripheral wall 42 defines a front notch 52 and a rear notch 54. The front notch 52 is positioned on a front portion 44 of the peripheral wall 42, and the rear notch 54 is positioned on a rear portion 46 of the peripheral wall 42. The front notch 52 and the rear notch 54 define a pair of lateral segments 56 of the top edge 50, each of which is configured for supporting a rim 66 of an associated bag 64 of a pair of bags 64. The front notch 52 and the rear notch 54 are centered between a pair of lateral portions 48 of the peripheral wall 42. The top edge 50 of the peripheral wall 42 is positioned below the upper edge 18 of the container 12 when the liner 38 is positioned in the container 12.
A lid 58 is pivotably coupled to the container 12 and is movable to alternately open and close the opening 20. A pair of hooks 60 is removably mountable to the container 12. The pair of hooks 60 extends upwardly past the upper edge 18 of the container 12 when mounted to the container 12 and is configured to hang the container 12 on a cabinet door 68. A pair of connectors 62 is engageable with the pair of hooks 60 to mount the pair of hooks 60 to the container 12. The pair of connectors 62 comprises a pair of threaded fasteners but may comprise a latch, a hook 60-and-loop fastener, or the like.
In use, the bags 64 are positioned in the liner 38 and laterally positioned with respect to each other, and the liner 38 is positioned in the container 12. The bags 64 are accessible through the opening 20 by opening 20 the lid 58 and may be used to store garbage. Items may be stored in the drawer 30 of the storage compartment 22, which are accessible by moving the drawer 30 through either aperture 28 of the pair of apertures 28 of the channel 26. Such items may include toilet paper, facial tissues, linens, or the like, and the storage compartment 22 may be sized according to the items intended to be stored. The container 12 may be hung onto the cabinet door 68 via the pair of hooks 60, in which position the drawer 30 may still be accessed through either aperture 28.
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.
