Deposit and collection receptacles – Closures and chutes – Letter box
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-11
2005-01-11
Miller, William L. (Department: 3677)
Deposit and collection receptacles
Closures and chutes
Letter box
C232S045000, C232S039000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06840438
ABSTRACT:
A theft-preventative mailbox for holding various sizes of mail correspondence and mail parcels. The mailbox includes an elongate and internally hollowed body with a mail correspondence insertion slot at a generally upper end location. The body further includes a mail storage compartment, and the body is further fixedly anchored at a ground location so that at least a portion of the mail storage compartment extends below a surface of the ground location. An access door is defined within the body and permits the depositing of mail parcels into the storage compartment. A constriction skirt is secured to the interior of the mailbox body and includes a plurality of inwardly directed and pointed spear portions for permitting one-way depositing of mail correspondence and mail parcels. A mail retrieval mechanism acts in concert with the parcel access door to permit the retrieval of the mail correspondence and mail parcels deposited within the storage compartment.
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Miller William L.
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