Receptacles – End wall structure – With weight or counterweight
Patent
1998-10-30
2000-02-15
Pollard, Steven
Receptacles
End wall structure
With weight or counterweight
215376, B65D 4100
Patent
active
060242442
ABSTRACT:
A convex shaped apparatus transversed with a flat base at the bottom, sized and shaped to be fixedly attached to the base of a standard container. The apparatus may either be hollow (with the top open) to act together with the standard container to hold the contents or separately fixedly attached to the bottom of the standard container. The weight of the apparatus is sufficient to lower the center of gravity of the combined apparatus and standard container no matter whether the container is full, partially full or empty. The convex shaped surface of the apparatus, above the flat base of the apparatus, insures that the container is unstable when left unattended. In the event that the container fills with liquid such as rain water, it wall tip on its side if a curious child investigates and tries to get in the container. The tipping container allows the liquid to spill out rendering the container harmnless to a child and prevents the drowning of the child. When the container is in storage, being shipped or in normal use, a removable collar sized and shaped to fit around the lower base of the standard container and the convex shaped apparatus. The removable collar and convex shaped apparatus with the flat base act together to provide stability and prevent the apparatus and container from tipping.
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Baird James F.
Pollard Steven
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