Deposit and collection receptacles – Separate inlet and outlet openings
Patent
1986-12-29
1988-06-28
Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
Deposit and collection receptacles
Separate inlet and outlet openings
232 17, 232 48, B65D 9100
Patent
active
047533862
ABSTRACT:
An improved mailbox comprising a first tubular shaped compartment (18) with side walls and a flat bottom (50), a hinged front door (22) and a first pivotal flag assembly (170, FIG. 10) which is normally raised by the homeowner when he places mail in the mailbox for the postman to pick up and then lower the flag assembly, a second pivotal flag assembly (24), a first cable arrangement (40) responsive to opening of the front door to raise the second flag assembly (24) and leave it raised when the front door is closed to advise the homeowner that the postman has come, and a fastening arrangement (156 FIG. 9) for disabling the first cable arrangement by the homeowner when he is away from home, so no one will know that mail is in the mailbox. A second compartment (92) positioned below the first compartment (90) comprises a lockable rear door (112) therein. The flat bottom of the first compartment (90) is separated longitudinally along its length into first and second substantially equal sections (60 and 62 FIG. 4), with hinging means securing the edges of the first and second sections (60 and 62) to the side walls of the first compartment to enable the first and second sections (60, 62) to swing downwardly into the second compartment (92) where they normally will remain, thus leaving the first compartment (90) opened into the second compartment (92) to allow mail placed in the first compartment (90) to fall into the second compartment (92). A second cable arrangement (64, 66) responds to the opening of the front door (22) to pull up the first and second sections, while the front door is opened, into a common horizontal plane to form the flat bottom (50) of the first tubular type mailbox, and a locking arrangement (126, 130 FIG. 8) for locking the first and second sections into the common horizontal plane to receive mail.
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Gibson , Jr. Robert W.
Phillion, Sr. Donald W.
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