Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Inserted or external form or protector
Patent
1997-02-27
1998-06-16
Jacyna, J. Casimer
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Inserted or external form or protector
141316, B65B 104
Patent
active
057656142
ABSTRACT:
A hopper insert for refuse bags which internally supports the sidewalls of a refuse bag so that it is able to maintain an open shape, while also providing protection of the sidewall of the refuse bag from expansion damage due to efforts by a user to compress the refuse contained therein. The hopper insert is composed generally of a preferably rectilinearly shaped hopper having an open top, an open bottom, and is dimensioned for loosely being inserted inside a refuse bag. A funnel is provided at the top of the hopper which flairs outwardly and upwardly therefrom. When the hopper is inserted into a refuse bag, the funnel is located above the mouth of the refuse bag and provides a sturdy and conveniently larger opening for accepting refuse into the hopper, and thereby, into the refuse bag. Preferably, the corners of the hopper are gently rounded so as to protect the refuse bag from tearing. It is further preferred for the corners at the bottom end portion of the hopper to be vertically slitted and terminate in a bilateral radius, wherein the roundness thereby provided minimizes chances for refuse bag tearing and wherein the slitting provides independent flexibility of the sidewalls as may be needed with respect to frictional or suction/vacuum effects with respect to the refuse bag to thereby more easily vertically pull the hopper out from inside the refuse bag after filling thereof has been completed.
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Package Information of "Grass Hopper" (.TM.) Product of Seiler Plastics, Fenton, MO. Date Unknown (on market since at least May 1997).
Product Package Information Sheet of Refuse Bag Product of Aco Hardware, Farmington Hills, MI; Product Date Aug. 30, 1996, but believed product on market before Feb. 27, 1995.
Dictor Mitchell L.
Douglas Steven O.
Jacyna J. Casimer
Kardosh Wallace J.
Keefe Peter D.
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