EP0652166A1 - Fussbetätigbarer Müllbehälter - Google Patents

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EP0652166A1
EP0652166A1 EP94402536A EP94402536A EP0652166A1 EP 0652166 A1 EP0652166 A1 EP 0652166A1 EP 94402536 A EP94402536 A EP 94402536A EP 94402536 A EP94402536 A EP 94402536A EP 0652166 A1 EP0652166 A1 EP 0652166A1
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Gérald de Broissia
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/14—Other constructional features; Accessories
    • B65F1/16—Lids or covers
    • B65F1/1623—Lids or covers with means for assisting the opening or closing thereof, e.g. springs
    • B65F1/163—Pedal-operated lids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/04—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor with removable inserts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/14—Other constructional features; Accessories
    • B65F1/1426—Housings, cabinets or enclosures for refuse receptacles

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  • the present invention relates to trash cans with foot-controlled opening, of the type comprising a basket for receiving household waste, most often composed of a support lined with a removable internal container, which has or have an upper opening, which is closed in the rest position of the bin, while it is released and made accessible to allow the use of the bin thanks to a pedal that the housewife most often operates at the foot.
  • the cover is pivotally mounted on the support itself, at the edge of the opening provided at its top, and on the other hand, this support also plays the role of a self-supporting, clean chassis. to be placed on the ground, on which the control pedal is mounted in the lower part.
  • the opening operation of the cover then requires the use of a metal transmission linkage, because to obtain a sufficient opening of the cover, freeing access to the interior of the bin, it is necessary to act on this cover at a point close to its articulation on the support, by means of this linkage which transmits the opening and closing orders from the pedal.
  • Document FR-A-1 157 839 describes a garbage box composed of a container mounted to tilt between two positions of use on a support envelope. This envelope covers the upper opening of said container when the latter is in the closed position.
  • the position of the tilting axis of the container with respect to the support envelope constitutes the essential feature of the invention because it is responsible for the intrinsic characteristics of the refuse container.
  • the tilting axis is located at the bottom of the container, in a position such as relative to the center of gravity of said container, that the closed position constitutes the stable equilibrium position; the container and its possible content being cantilevered with respect to the axis.
  • Such a device involves being limited to small trash cans because of the significant effort to be provided when opening and maintaining the container in the open position, when it is filled with garbage.
  • This system only includes two positions of use without the possibility of dosing the opening of the bin according to the size of the waste that one wishes to introduce into it.
  • the container can effectively switch from its stable equilibrium position, or closed position, to its open position only completely.
  • the invention aims to better meet the needs of practice in this field, by proposing a foot-opening pedal-operated bin in which the cover is fixed on a self-supporting frame, while it is the basket or removable container support. which switches on the chassis under the action of the pedal between the open and closed positions.
  • the invention notably makes use of particular tilting control means combined with a specific positioning of the tilting axis.
  • the invention is more particularly interested in household trash cans, for example when it leads, according to the invention, to a trash can which is easy to handle, easy to empty and to maintain, pleasant aesthetic, convenient to use by the housewife, satisfying all concerns of hygiene and cleanliness, whose design also ensures a long service life.
  • the support it is advantageous for the support to be pivotally mounted around a horizontal axis on a self-supporting chassis, between an opening end-of-travel position and a closing end-of-travel position, the one at the relative open position of the lid and the container, and the other at the relative closed position of these elements.
  • the end positions of the support are arranged so that the longitudinal directions of the container corresponding to each of these end positions are both inclined relative to the vertical and in opposite directions from each other .
  • the chassis forms the cover intended to cooperate with the opening of the container.
  • the support which is also advantageously made in a single piece of plastic, preferably has a shape substantially identical to that of the container.
  • the tilting axis of the latter In order to reduce the volume occupied by the movement of the support during its tilting, it is advantageous to place the tilting axis of the latter closer to the bottom than to the top of the container. It follows in particular from this characteristic that the trajectory of the top of the container, during the tilting of the support towards the open position, is lengthened for a given tilting angle of the support. As a result, this angle can be small and, as a result, the inclination of the longitudinal direction of the container in the closed and open positions can be reduced, and the volume occupied by the support during its tilting is reduced .
  • the tilting axis is positioned horizontally so that it is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the container passing through the center of gravity and that, in addition, said tilting axis and said longitudinal direction are in the same plane.
  • the container and its possible content are not arranged cantilevered with respect to the axis but on either side of said axis.
  • the closed position is not strictly speaking a stable equilibrium position.
  • the tilt axis is located in the lower half of the container, below the center of gravity.
  • This arrangement causes the container to oscillate on either side of a reference position corresponding to an unstable equilibrium position. It can be defined as that for which the longitudinal direction of the container, passing through the center of gravity, is vertical. Outside this position, the container alone is driven by gravity towards the two extreme open and closed positions due to its center of gravity located higher than its tilting axis.
  • the center of gravity of the container and its contents can be located below the axis of tilting.
  • the reference position can then be considered stable unlike the closed position which can only be reached thanks to the presence of elastic return means, essential components of the tilt control means.
  • the bottom of the support and / or the container a circular shape in section with respect to any plane normal to the tilting axis. This characteristic makes it possible in particular to save material.
  • the shape of the bottom of the support and / or that of the bottom of the container may / may in this respect be spherical in shape centered on the point of intersection between the tilt axis of the support and the longitudinal direction of the container.
  • This bin design with a tilting support therefore firstly has the advantage of allowing simple and inexpensive manufacture, thanks to the possibility of making the cover with the rest of the self-supporting chassis in a single piece of plastic.
  • This design also makes it possible to produce the means for controlling the tilting of the support, from a pedal, with a minimum of parts and avoiding the use of metal as much as possible, for example as follows:
  • These tilt control means may advantageously comprise a single piece of plastic material forming both a pedal, a lever articulated on the chassis, carrying the pedal on one of its arms, and a connecting rod connected, on the one hand, to the other arm of the lever and, on the other hand, to the support at a point preferably situated at the level of the latter's pivot axis.
  • the production in one piece of the lever and the connecting rod is made possible by the fact that at least the articulation connecting the rod to the lever is achieved by thinning.
  • the lever which is advantageously placed immediately under the support, preferably has a face turned towards the support conforming to the shape of the bottom of the latter. It is also advantageous to design the lever / connecting rod assembly and its arrangement so that, in the open position of the support, said face facing the support, of the lever, comes into contact with the bottom of the support, so that the lever / connecting rod assembly attached on the one hand to the chassis at the location of the axis of articulation of the lever and, on the other hand, to the support, serve as stop means in the end-of-travel position d opening, of the support.
  • the combination of the tilting control means and the particular positioning of the tilting axis makes it possible to reduce the effort to be exerted on the pedal to obtain the opening of the bin and to maintain it in such a position, even if it it is full and this regardless of its size.
  • the tilting control means comprising a spring forming elastic return means also make it possible to obtain a precise dosage of the opening and not simply an all or nothing type command.
  • the partial opening of the bin is facilitated by the fact that the force exerted by the user's foot is partly compensated by the counter-force exerted by the spring, the hardness of which can be determined appropriately.
  • the trash can shown in the drawings comprises a tilting basket which comprises a support 1, essentially cylindrical in shape, and a container 2, of the same shape as the support 1, which is disposed in the latter.
  • the support 1 and its container 2 are open at the top to receive household waste inside the container through an opening 2a.
  • a fixed cover 3 closes the upper opening 2a.
  • the cover 3 is secured to a self-supporting frame 6, which carries a pedal 4 in the lower part, associated with control and transmission means which are not shown in FIGS. 1 to 3. These means are intended to transmit to the support 1 any action applied to the pedal 4, in order to put the waste bin in the open position, while return means urge the support 1 containing the container 2 towards the closed position, as will be explained below.
  • the support 1 is pivotally mounted on the self-supporting frame 6 around an axis 5, which is oriented horizontally when the chassis is placed on the ground, on a ground supposed to be horizontal.
  • the chassis 6 comprises two substantially planar and concurrent parts 6a and 6b, the lower edges of which form the base 30 for bearing on the ground of the chassis, with a grip corresponding to that of a tripod.
  • Part 6a is vertical and forms the foot towards the rear of the bin, while part 6b is oblique to the vertical direction, from base 30 to cover 3.
  • Parts 6a and 6b are connected to each other by a part 6c of generally semi-cylindrical shape, which in a way constitutes a cover receiving and housing half of the support 1 when the latter is in the closed position.
  • the cover 3 here in the form of a circular disc, closes the part 6c on a cross section of its cylindrical shape.
  • the part 6c has, in the diametral plane 6b, an axis inclined with respect to the vertical of approximately 20 degrees, in the opposite direction symmetrically to the inclined direction that takes with respect to the vertical l 'longitudinal axis 7 of the support 1 when the latter is in the open position.
  • the inclination of the support 1 is then indeed about 20 degrees relative to the vertical, just like that of the container 2 which it contains.
  • the part 6c can optionally serve as a stop for the support 1, which, being partially housed in the chassis, has its longitudinal axis 7 placed with that of the container 2 in an inclined position relative to the vertical of a angle substantially equal to 20 degrees, this inclination being directed in opposite direction symmetrically with respect to that corresponding to the open position of the support 1.
  • the cover 3 came in one piece with the entire chassis 6 by plastic molding. It will be noted in this regard that the part 6b of the chassis is wider than the part 6c, so that it forms up to the top of the bin wings 31 and 32 which facilitate its gripping, in particular during the extraction of the container 2 or during cleaning.
  • the support 1 and its removable container 2 are also advantageously made of molded plastic.
  • the tilting mounting of the support 1 on the chassis 6 is obtained thanks to the cooperation of pins 8, which are formed in the material of the chassis and constitute half-axes of articulation in the same diametral plane as its part 6b, with housings 9 formed externally in the wall of the support 1, in two diametrically opposite places, these housings being open downwards and having at their top a cylindrical support wall corresponding to the external shape of the nipples 8.
  • the support 1 and the container 2 have a semi-spherical bottom centered on the intersection between the longitudinal axis 7 and the tilt axis 5 of the support 1, that is to say say whose section relative to any plane normal to the tilting axis 5 is circular, centered on this axis 5, and on the other hand that the position of the tilting axis 5 is located in the lower half of the support 1 and of the container 2, the latter elements 1, 2 having a height h, h 'substantially greater than the diameter of their spherical bottom 1a, 2b.
  • the tilting of the support 1 around the axis 5 is controlled from the pedal 4 by a device appearing in Figures 4 and 5, which is hidden and protected by the fact that it fits entirely during its movements inside the self-supporting frame 6, more precisely in the particular case considered inside a recess 21 of its vertical part 6a forming a rear leg, the latter being for this purpose made up of two flat faces slightly spaced apart one from the other, joining by a vertical rounding 33 at the rear of the chassis.
  • This device comprises a lever with two arms 10, placed immediately under the support 1 and articulated at 11 on the chassis 6.
  • One of the arms of the lever 10 carries the pedal 4, and the other arm of this lever is articulated at the 'one end of a connecting rod 12 which is located in its extension and whose other end is articulated on the support 1 at a point 13 located substantially at the level of the pivot axis 5 of the support 1.
  • the lever 10 and the connecting rod 12 serve to transmit any action on the pedal 4, generally exerted by pressing on it with a foot, to tilt the support 1 forwards into the open position.
  • the assembly formed by the pedal 4, the lever 10 and the connecting rod 12 is made in a single piece of plastic.
  • the joints 14 and 15 connecting the connecting rod 12 respectively to the lever 10 and to a nozzle 16 fixed to the support 1, are constituted by thinning of the plastic.
  • the endpiece 16 is embedded in a protrusion 17 of the support 1 by means of a pressure screw 18.
  • the joints 14 and 15 move in space during operation, between the two extreme positions of the support 1 tilting relative to the chassis.
  • the articulation year 11 of the lever 10 is located on the chassis, at a fixed point, thanks to a rod engaged through the two faces of the vertical foot 6a of the chassis and through a hole drilled in the lever 10 that they frame.
  • the tilting command of the support 1 towards the open position is carried out against a return spring 19, which permanently biases the support 1 towards its end of closing travel position.
  • This spring 19 is interposed between the chassis 6 and the connecting rod 12. It is fixed by one end to a protuberance of the connecting rod 12 and hooked by the other to a rod or other formed in the material of the chassis at the bottom and at the bottom of the recess 21, slightly set back from the base 30 for supporting the ground.
  • the lever 10 On the side facing the bottom 1a of the support 1, the lever 10 has a face 10a substantially matching the shape of said spherical bottom 1a. In certain cases, it is possible that, when the support 1 is in the open position, the face 10a of the lever 10, as well as the face 12a of the connecting rod 12 which is adjacent to the support 1, come into abutment against the spherical bottom. the support 1 when the latter arrives at the end of the race in the open position, and this without the joints 14 and 15 suffering from it since the elements 10 and 12 then perform this function by working in traction. Another stop can be provided under the support 1 at the head of the arm 10.
  • the pedal 4 abuts with an inclined face 20 of the chassis 6.
  • the support 1 has an upper edge 1b shaped obliquely to allow tilting of the support 1 towards its closed position without this edge 1b coming into contact with the cover 3.
  • a notch 22 is further provided in the upper edge of the support 1 in order to facilitate the removal of the container 2 for emptying and / or cleaning. It can accommodate the axes of a semi-circular pivoting handle.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiment which has just been described, but encompasses all the variants remaining within the scope of the appended claims.
  • the container 2 could be omitted, the support 1 then playing itself directly the role of basket receiving household waste.
  • provision will often be made for disposing a bag inside the container 2, itself removable so as to be extracted from the tilting support.

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  • Cleaning Implements For Floors, Carpets, Furniture, Walls, And The Like (AREA)
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FR9313973A FR2712266B1 (fr) 1993-11-08 1993-11-08 Poubelle à ouverture commandée au pied.

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FR1157839A (fr) * 1955-09-07 1958-06-04 Carrara & Matta Boîte à ordures
US4300696A (en) * 1979-05-18 1981-11-17 Bryce Ian R Litter bin

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