Deposit and collection receptacles – Letter boxes
Patent
1996-03-11
1997-05-27
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Deposit and collection receptacles
Letter boxes
B65D 9100
Patent
active
056324413
ABSTRACT:
An elevating mailbox consisting of a housing that is open therethrough and is closed across a top end by a cap, with the housing to telescope into and out of a ground sleeve that is seated in a hole in the ground adjacent to a road way, and providing a sealing arrangement for discouraging water entry into the ground sleeve. The housing includes a mail receiving cavity that is exposed when the housing is in an elevated attitude. A screw jack is maintained to a bottom of the ground sleeve to extend and retract a screw from a nut arranged across a cylinder when the screw is turned, with a screw top end journaled to the housing to lift and lower the housing, with the screw arranged to be turned by operation of an electric motor that is operated by a remote control connected through wires to operate at set times and on demand, and including limit switches for turning off motor operation at upper and lower limits of housing travel into and out of the ground sleeve.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2189486 (1940-02-01), D'Amico
patent: 3214156 (1965-10-01), Klose et al.
patent: 3593914 (1971-07-01), Van Orden
patent: 4114801 (1978-09-01), Van Orden
Dorner Kenneth J.
Redman Jerry
Russell M. Reid
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