CA1101819A

CA1101819A - Trash bag holder

Info

Publication number: CA1101819A
Application number: CA297,310A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Nancy E. Dougard; Eugene N. Dougard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1977-07-27
Filing date: 1978-02-20
Publication date: 1981-05-26

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A spike-ended leg for sticking in the ground has a hinge at its upper end for rotatably supporting a loop in a storage position and in a position for holding a bag in an open condition.

Description

SPECIFICATION
This invention relates to trash bag holders, and is more paxticularly concerned with collapsible, sel~
supporting trash bag holders which may be pressed into the ground and readily moved about a yard. ;
L. L. Branthover, in U. S. Patent No. 2,149~042, , :
provides a knockdown trash receptable in which a ring has passages for relèasably receivins support legs. A trash bag has loops sewn at the opening thereof to be placeA over ~ the upper ends of the legs to hold open and support the ~ ;
; 10 trash bag.
U~ S. Patent No. 765,388 and U. S. Patent~No. ;
946,108 disclose floor-supported racks for holding mail bags in which handles of the mail bags hook over support arms.
U. S. Patent No. 214,036 discloses a pivotaIly mounted ring in a railway postal car for holding~mail bags.
Modern trash bags, particu1~arly the plastic~trash bags of 2-4 mil thickness, cannot have support~hand1ss~or~
rings as required~;in the above patents. A1so, because~the trash outwardly distorts such bags, they are undesirabla ., as liners for rigid trssh cans in that removal therefrom~
is extremely difficul~
U. S. Patent No. 2,455,729 discloses a hand truck ;~ type support for plast1c trash bags which permits~movemsnt ~of a trash bag to different locations about a yard~; however,~
~ stcrage of this cart type device is a~ prcblsm i~ that it ; takes up almost as~much storage arsa of a bag which it is designed to transport. Somewhat the same~ hold~-true for U. S. Patent No. 3,041,026.

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According to ~he present invention there is provided a trash bag apparatus for holding a trash bag upright and open to receive trash, comprising: leg means including an upper end and a lower end, said lower .
end comprising pointed means for pierci.ng the ground; a loop adapted to ~ ~
receive and hold the open upper end of a trash bag; and hinge means pivotally ~
connecting said loop and said leg means at said upper ends so that said loop is alternately pivotal to a storage position substantially pal~allel to said leg means and to a bag holding position substantially perpendicular to said ~:
leg meansJ said hinge means comprising first and second U-shaped members ` .
; 10 each including a base and a pair of legs, said bases connected to said upper end of said leg means and to said loop respectively, said legs extending parallel to each other, and a hinge pin connecting said legs, said base o said U-shaped member which is connected ko said upper end of said leg means being connected at the extremity of said upper end and spaced from the other base such that said loop is pivotal over said extremity so that said other : base engages said leg means on the side opposite the connection of said one base to said leg means.
ON THE DRAWING .
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate an exemplary :
:~ 20 embodiment of the present invention:
Figure 1 is a pictorial representation of a trash bag holder constructed in accordance with the invention;
Figure 2 is an elevational view of the trash bag holder folded in .
a storage condition;
Figure 3 is a fragmentary top view of the hinge structure, and ~ ;
Figure 4 is a sectional view of the hinge of Figure 3, taken along ~ ~.
the line IV-IV, showing the operating condition in solid lines and the storage condition in phantom.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, a trash bag holder is generally illustra~ed at 10 as comprising a leg 12 which supports a loop 14 at its upper end. A trash bag 16, such as a 4 mil plastic bag is shown, primarily in phantorll, as bei.ng held open by a plurality of clips 18.
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The leg 12 comprises a pair of rods 20,22 which are secured together, as by weldiny, and which include spaced lower ends 23 with polnted portions 26 adapting the legs to be pressed into the ground. Stability is provided by a rung 24 welded between the lower ends of the rods.
As illust.rated in FIGS~ l and 2, the leg 12 and ~
the loop 14 are connected together by a hinge 28, shown in :.
detail in FIGS. 3 and 4.
~: Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the hinge 28 is seen as comprising a first U-shaped member including a hase 30 ::
which is welded to the rods 20,22, and a pair of arms 32.
A second U-shaped member includes a base 34 which is~welded : to the loop 14, and a pair of arms 36. The arms 32 and 36 are pivotally connected by a pin, rivet, bolt or the like 38. In the position illustrated, the loop, via the base 34, bears against the leg rods 20,22; when rotated over the ~- upper ends of the leg rods, the~ loop extends~parallel~to ;~
` the leg and is suspended from the hinge as illustrated in~ ;
phantom in FIG. 4.

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Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. Trash bag apparatus for holding a trash bag upright and open to receive trash, comprising: leg means including an upper end and a lower end, said lower end comprising pointed means for piercing the ground; a loop adapted to receive and hold the open upper end of a trash bag; and hinge means pivotally connecting said loop and said leg means at said upper ends so that said loop is alternately pivotal to a storage position substantially parallel to said leg means and to a bag holding position substantially perpendicular to said leg means, said hinge means comprising first and second U-shaped members each including a base and a pair of legs, said bases connected to said upper end of said leg means and to said loop respectively said legs extending parallel to each other, and a hinge pin connecting said legs, said base of said U-shaped member which is connected to said upper end of said leg means being connected at the extremity of said upper end and spaced from the other base such that said loop is pivotal over said extremity so that said other base engages said leg means on the side opposite the connection of said one base to said leg means.

2. The trash bag apparatus set forth in claim 1, wherein: said leg means comprises a pair of parallel leg members spaced apart at said lower end, each of said members including a pointed section at its lower end, and a rung connecting said members adjacent said pointed sections.