Deposit and collection receptacles – Letter boxes – With supports
Reexamination Certificate
2003-02-25
2004-05-18
Miller, William L. (Department: 3677)
Deposit and collection receptacles
Letter boxes
With supports
C232S045000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06736310
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to security mailboxes and more particularly pertains to a new secured mailbox assembly for preventing the theft of mail placed inside a user's mailbox.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of security mailboxes is known in the prior art. More specifically, security mailboxes heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 3,880,344; U.S. Pat. No. 4,753,386; U.S. Pat. No. 4,905,891; U.S. Pat. No. 5,833,132; U.S. Pat. No. 5,148,974; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,096,115.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new secured mailbox assembly. The prior art includes mailboxes having containers and doors for delivering and receiving one's mail.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new secured mailbox assembly which has many of the advantages of the security mailboxes mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new secured mailbox assembly which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art security mailboxes, either alone or in any combination thereof. The present invention includes an elongate base member being adapted to be partially disposed in a ground; and also includes a mailbox including a bracket being fastened with fasteners to the elongate base member, and also including a container being attached to the bracket, and further including a mail delivery door being hingedly attached to the container, and also including a mail retrieval door also being hingedly attached to the container, and further including a mail chute being attached to the mail delivery door; and further includes a lock mechanism for locking the mail receiving door to said container. None of the prior art includes the combination of the elements of the present invention.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the secured mailbox assembly in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a new secured mailbox assembly which has many of the advantages of the security mailboxes mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new secured mailbox assembly which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art security mailboxes, either alone or in any combination thereof.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new secured mailbox assembly for preventing the theft of mail placed inside a user's mailbox.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new secured mailbox assembly that is easy and convenient to set up and use.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new secured mailbox assembly that safeguards mail being placed in one's standalone mailbox as primarily found in rural areas.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
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