US20030146230A1 - Refuse container lid - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an improved lid for a refuse container.
- a typical container has a large rectangular box shape and includes a bottom and four side walls, with means, such as fork lift receiving channels, provided whereby the refuse collecting truck can engage the container to raise the container off the ground and invert the container over a bin on the collecting truck to empty the refuse therefrom.
- one or more hinged covers or lids are provided on the top of the container, and as the container is inverted over the bin, the lids fall open, permitting the refuse to fall from the container into the bin on the truck. After the container is emptied, it is lowered back onto the ground, and as it is lowered the lids fall to the closed position.
- a lid should be sufficiently strong so as to support a load, such as a child or refuse, placed on top.
- the lid should not buckle or fail under such loads.
- a lid should be sufficiently strong to resist the damage during dumping.
- heavy refuse is sometimes flung against the lid.
- the cover When the container is being lowered to the ground, the cover often slams closed forcefully. Often a lid is opened all the way so as to fall back forcefully against the outside back wall. The repetitive forceful opening and closing of the lid can cause structural damage, creating dents and bending the covers out of shape so that the covers will not rotate properly on the hinge or may not close the container completely.
- the lids are freely movable about the hinge connection, so that they will open completely and close readily during the dumping operation.
- a lid should rotate to a freely open position such that the lid need not be held open.
- a lid is sufficiently light weight so as to be easily raised by the person placing garbage therein. Since frequently a person will be carrying a bag of garbage in at least one hand, thus having only one hand free for opening the container, it is highly desirable that the cover or covers are easily opened while the container remains on the ground.
- a lid should be adapted to shed water and snow. Standing water or snow on a lid increases the weight of the lid and may be a source of odor or insects. Water or snow should be directed off the container and not into it.
- FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a refuse container including two lids of the invention attached to a bin.
- FIG. 2 is a front top perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the lid of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the lid of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 6 is an enlarged front elevation view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 7 is combined side elevational sectional views of the lid of FIG. 2 taken on lines A 1 -A 1 -D 2 -D 2 of FIG. 6.
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 8 - 8 of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9 - 9 of FIG. 3 further including additional lids in stacked configuration.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line 10 - 10 of FIG. 9.
- FIG. 11 is front top perspective view of an alternate embodiment of the lid of the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a dumpster or refuse container 80 including two lids 10 of the invention and a bin 81 for holding refuse.
- Bin 81 is a conventional bin typically constructed of strong metal, such as steel.
- Bin 81 includes a bottom 82 and walls 83 .
- Walls 83 include front wall 83 F, back wall 83 B, left wall 83 L and right wall 83 R, projecting upwards from bottom 82 .
- Each wall 83 has an upper end 84 which terminates in a upper edge or lip 85 surrounding top opening 90 .
- Lip 85 generally defines a plane surrounding opening 90 .
- Lid mounting means 91 for hingedly mounting lid 10 include a pintle or hinge rod 94 supported by two or more mounts 92 attached to upper ends 84 of walls 83 . In other bin configurations, mounts 92 may be attached to a permanent partial cover.
- a pair of lids 10 such as left lid 10 L and right lid 1 OR are mounted to hinge rod 94 so as to be pivotable to the fully vertical upright position and preferably pivotable through approximately 270°.
- Hinge rod 94 defines a hinge axis 99 about which lid 10 pivots.
- a typical hinge rod 94 is a steel rod of one-half inch diameter and six feet in length so as to hold two lids 10 .
- lift pockets 88 Mounted on left and right walls 83 L, 83 R are lift pockets 88 , each for receiving a lift arm of a refuse collecting truck.
- a bin 81 may have a top partially covering the bin opening. Such a top may be fixed or movable.
- FIGS. 2 - 6 are views of a preferred embodiment of lid 10 .
- FIG. 2 is a front top perspective view.
- FIG. 3 is a top plan view of lid 10 of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of lid 10 of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation view of lid 10 of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 6 is an enlarged front elevation view of lid 10 of FIG. 2.
- Lid 10 is intended to cover all or a portion of the top opening 90 of a refuse bin 81 .
- Lid 10 is a rectangular panel 20 generally including an upper side 30 , a lower side 40 , a hinge end 50 , an opening end 60 , a mid-section 77 ; a left side 70 , and a right side 75 .
- Hinge end 50 includes connection means 52 , such as a plurality of laterally spaced bearings 54 , for connecting to the bin's lid mounting means 91 , such as to hinge rod 94 such that panel 20 is rotatable about hinge rod 94 and hinge axis 99 .
- Hinge rod 94 includes an outer bearing surface 95 .
- Lid 10 is formed from a resilient thermoplastic and includes integral bearings 54 , that are formed directly out of the thermoplastic, for bearing directly on outer surface 95 of hinge rod 94 .
- Bearings 54 should be spaced so as to support lid 10 and must be sufficiently strong so as not to fail and particularly not to fail before lid 10 bends as described below.
- bearings 54 It is important that bearings 54 not be damaged, as bearing damage may cause the lid not to properly open and close or to not cover the bin.
- Total strength of bearings 54 is largely dependent upon their total bearing area. Extensive testing to failure has shown that, when bearing area exceeds 10 t of the total area of hinge rod 94 , failure of the bearings 54 or damage to the bearings goes down. A bearing area exceeding 20%, assures that the failure mode takes place elsewhere.
- Lid 10 of the exemplary embodiment, has forty four bearings 54 comprising almost 23% of the area (or length) of hinge rod 94 , thus assuring that lid 10 , as described below, will always yield in another location.
- Lid opening end 60 is opposite lid hinge end 50 .
- Opening end 60 includes opening means 62 , such as a handle 63 , such as raised central portion 64 under which a person may place fingers for opening lid 10 .
- Upper lip edge or lip 85 of bin front wall 83 F supports the periphery or near periphery of lower side 40 of opening end 60 .
- Bin upper edge or lip 85 may support the periphery or near periphery of lower side 40 of either left or right side 70 , 75 .
- Panel 20 is further defined by a plurality of longitudinal corrugations 21 spanning substantially between opening end 60 and hinge end 50 creating a plurality of hills 22 and valleys 26 .
- Corrugations 21 act as a plurality of longitudinal flanged beams for greatly increasing the bending strength of lid 10 .
- corrugations 21 have a lateral cross section approximating a sine wave.
- a sine wave cross section of corrugations 21 facilitates the flow of plastic in the molding process such that the thickness and material strengths are more uniform.
- Corrugations 21 have a longitudinal neutral bending axis wherein half the moment of inertia is above the neutral axis and half is below.
- Lid 10 is adapted for bending upward upon failure in bending mode from compressive forces on front end 60 .
- hills 22 of corrugations 21 slant down to the same level as valleys 26 such that opening end 60 is relatively low, essentially at the lowest level of lid 10 .
- hinge axis 99 is also relatively low, certainly below the neutral bending axis of corrugations 21 , such that a compression line 12 between front end 60 and hinge axis 99 is below the neutral bending axis of lid 10 . Since longitudinal compressive forces on lid 10 act on compression line 12 and this is below the neutral bend axis, panel 20 will bend upward in bending failure due to compression loads. This is true even if the corrugations are not longitudinally upwardly arched as shown in the exemplary embodiment.
- corrugations 21 are upwardly arched laterally, that is the mean height of panel 20 rises toward the center.
- both hills 22 and valleys 26 progressively rise toward the center of panel 20 . This lateral arching increases the ability of panel 20 to hold loads, such as a person or weight placed on upper surface 30 .
- FIG. 7 combines side elevational sectional views of the lid of FIG. 2 taken on lines A 1 -D 1 through valleys 26 and lines A 2 -D 2 through hills of FIG. 6. Longitudinal compressive forces on lid 10 act on a compression line 12 between front end 60 and hinge axis 99 . As seen in FIG. 7, panel 20 is upwardly arched longitudinally. This increases its ability to hold loads, such as a person or weight placed on upper surface 30 and provides for water run off.
- panel 20 is upwardly arched longitudinally such that the substantial mass is above compression line 12 . This predisposes the middle of lid 10 to bend upward upon bending failure due to excessive longitudinal compressive force.
- panel 10 includes one or more lateral bend zones or bend sections 13 .
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 8 - 8 of FIG. 3.
- Bend sections 13 are predetermined lateral cross-sections of reduced strength that will fail first in bending mode failure.
- bend zones 13 are provided where said corrugations have a reduced resistance to bending, such as by having a reduced moment of inertia, such that longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at bend failure buckles said panel at bend zone 13 .
- the lower portions of corrugations 21 along bend zone 13 have a reduced cross-sectional area 14 as seen in FIG. 4 such that longitudinal compressive force on opening end 60 at bend failure buckles lid 10 upward at a bend zone 13 .
- FIG. 11 is a front top perspective view of a lid 10 ′ showing an alternate embodiment.
- Lid 10 ′ is the same as lid 10 except, instead of the lower portions of corrugations 21 along bend zone 13 having a reduced cross-sectional area 14 as in lid 10 , bend zone 13 ′ is created by reducing the resistance to bending by reducing the moment of inertia of the corrugations by lowering the tops of hills 22 such as by lateral depressions 14 ′.
- panel 20 ′ will first buckle upwards at bend zone 13 ′ at bend failure from compression load.
- panel 20 ′ is predisposed to buckle upwards upon failure in bending mode, and the lateral weakening at bend zone 14 ′ controls the bending to first occur along bend zone 13 ′.
- Lid 10 is made of sufficiently resilient material so as to spring back and return to its original configuration after being buckled. Polypropylene and/or other thermoplastic olefin material has been found to produce good results.
- lid 10 buckles upward in failure mode, gravity assists in returning the buckled lid 10 to its original configuration.
- gravity on the raised part will tend to straighten the lid and return the lid to its original configuration
- Lid 10 is adapted, such as by having a smoothly arched top surface, for shedding water and snow off the container and not into the bin.
- Lid 10 is adapted to be nestably stackable. As seen in FIG. 4, lid 10 includes nubs or protrusions 45 on lower side 40 for maintaining nested, stacked lids 10 in a parallel relationship. Protrusions 45 assure that a stack of lids 10 maintains vertical alignment and they prevent nested lids 10 from becoming stuck together.
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9 - 9 of lid 10 of FIG. 3 further including additional identical lids 10 a , 10 b in nested, stacked configuration.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line 10 - 10 of lid 10 of FIG. 3 further including additional lids 10 a , 10 b in nested, stacked configuration.
- protrusions 45 are adapted for maintaining nested, stacked lids 10 in a parallel relationship.
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A lid (10) for covering at least a portion of a top opening (90) of a refuse bin (81) generally comprises a rectangular panel (20) including an upper side (30); a lower side (40); a mid-section (77); a hinge end (50) including hinge bearings (54); and an opening end (60). Panel (20) is defined by a plurality of upwardly arched longitudinal corrugations (21), sinusoidal in lateral section, spanning substantially between opening end (60) and hinge end (50). An exemplary embodiment includes a bend section (13) at a predetermined lateral cross-section such that a longitudinal compressive force on opening end (60) at failure buckles panel (20) convex upward at bend section (13). The mid-section of panel (20) is upwardly laterally arched. Lid (10) includes a plurality of protrusions (45) such that a plurality of lids (10) may be stacked in a parallel relationship. The area of bearings (54) is large and preferably exceeds 10% of the area of hinge rod (94).
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- This invention relates to an improved lid for a refuse container.
- Large volume refuse containers, commonly called dumpsters, having capacities of several cubic yards or more, are used in many locations such as apartment complexes and the like, so that garbage can be neatly and sanitarily gathered in a central location for collection by a garbage truck. Frequently, containers of an appropriate size to hold a single day's refuse are used, and the containers are dumped daily by the collecting truck to minimize the occurrence of offensive odors from the container. A typical container has a large rectangular box shape and includes a bottom and four side walls, with means, such as fork lift receiving channels, provided whereby the refuse collecting truck can engage the container to raise the container off the ground and invert the container over a bin on the collecting truck to empty the refuse therefrom. Normally, one or more hinged covers or lids are provided on the top of the container, and as the container is inverted over the bin, the lids fall open, permitting the refuse to fall from the container into the bin on the truck. After the container is emptied, it is lowered back onto the ground, and as it is lowered the lids fall to the closed position.
- This sounds simple enough, but there are large, conflicting demands placed on lids.
- A lid should be sufficiently strong so as to support a load, such as a child or refuse, placed on top. The lid should not buckle or fail under such loads.
- A lid should be sufficiently strong to resist the damage during dumping. When the container is inverted and emptied into the truck bin, heavy refuse is sometimes flung against the lid. When the container is being lowered to the ground, the cover often slams closed forcefully. Often a lid is opened all the way so as to fall back forcefully against the outside back wall. The repetitive forceful opening and closing of the lid can cause structural damage, creating dents and bending the covers out of shape so that the covers will not rotate properly on the hinge or may not close the container completely.
- When the container is inverted and emptied into the truck bin, the lids are open and vertical and go down into the truck bin. There, they occasionally are pushed against refuse in the bin. This puts high compressive forces on the front of the lid and the hinge. These forces often severely damage a lid or hinge. A lid should be designed to function in the face of these forces.
- It is preferred in such a container that the lids are freely movable about the hinge connection, so that they will open completely and close readily during the dumping operation.
- A lid should rotate to a freely open position such that the lid need not be held open.
- Preferably, a lid is sufficiently light weight so as to be easily raised by the person placing garbage therein. Since frequently a person will be carrying a bag of garbage in at least one hand, thus having only one hand free for opening the container, it is highly desirable that the cover or covers are easily opened while the container remains on the ground.
- Preferably, a lid should be adapted to shed water and snow. Standing water or snow on a lid increases the weight of the lid and may be a source of odor or insects. Water or snow should be directed off the container and not into it.
- FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a refuse container including two lids of the invention attached to a bin.
- FIG. 2 is a front top perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the lid of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the lid of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 6 is an enlarged front elevation view of the lid of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 7 is combined side elevational sectional views of the lid of FIG. 2 taken on lines A1-A1-D2-D2 of FIG. 6.
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line8-8 of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line9-9 of FIG. 3 further including additional lids in stacked configuration.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line10-10 of FIG. 9.
- FIG. 11 is front top perspective view of an alternate embodiment of the lid of the invention.
- With reference now to the drawings, FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a dumpster or
refuse container 80 including twolids 10 of the invention and abin 81 for holding refuse. - Bin81 is a conventional bin typically constructed of strong metal, such as steel. Bin 81 includes a
bottom 82 andwalls 83.Walls 83 includefront wall 83F,back wall 83B,left wall 83L andright wall 83R, projecting upwards frombottom 82. Eachwall 83 has anupper end 84 which terminates in a upper edge orlip 85 surrounding top opening 90.Lip 85 generally defines aplane surrounding opening 90. - Lid mounting means91 for hingedly mounting
lid 10 include a pintle orhinge rod 94 supported by two ormore mounts 92 attached toupper ends 84 ofwalls 83. In other bin configurations,mounts 92 may be attached to a permanent partial cover. A pair oflids 10, such asleft lid 10L and right lid 1OR are mounted to hingerod 94 so as to be pivotable to the fully vertical upright position and preferably pivotable through approximately 270°. Hingerod 94 defines ahinge axis 99 about whichlid 10 pivots. Atypical hinge rod 94 is a steel rod of one-half inch diameter and six feet in length so as to hold twolids 10. - Mounted on left and
right walls lift pockets 88, each for receiving a lift arm of a refuse collecting truck. - Although a single exemplary embodiment of a
bin 81 is shown and described, it will be seen and should be understood thatlid 10 of the invention is applicable for use with a wide variety of bins having different features and that theexemplary bin 81 is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. For example, a bin may have a top partially covering the bin opening. Such a top may be fixed or movable. - FIGS.2-6 are views of a preferred embodiment of
lid 10. FIG. 2 is a front top perspective view. FIG. 3 is a top plan view oflid 10 of FIG. 2. FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view oflid 10 of FIG. 3. FIG. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation view oflid 10 of FIG. 2. FIG. 6 is an enlarged front elevation view oflid 10 of FIG. 2. -
Lid 10 is intended to cover all or a portion of the top opening 90 of arefuse bin 81.Lid 10 is arectangular panel 20 generally including anupper side 30, alower side 40, ahinge end 50, anopening end 60, a mid-section 77; aleft side 70, and aright side 75. -
Hinge end 50 includes connection means 52, such as a plurality of laterally spacedbearings 54, for connecting to the bin's lid mounting means 91, such as to hingerod 94 such thatpanel 20 is rotatable abouthinge rod 94 andhinge axis 99.Hinge rod 94 includes anouter bearing surface 95.Lid 10 is formed from a resilient thermoplastic and includesintegral bearings 54, that are formed directly out of the thermoplastic, for bearing directly onouter surface 95 ofhinge rod 94. Thus, there is no need for addition or insertion of other bearing materials, such as metal sleeves.Bearings 54 should be spaced so as to supportlid 10 and must be sufficiently strong so as not to fail and particularly not to fail beforelid 10 bends as described below. It is important thatbearings 54 not be damaged, as bearing damage may cause the lid not to properly open and close or to not cover the bin. Total strength ofbearings 54 is largely dependent upon their total bearing area. Extensive testing to failure has shown that, when bearing area exceeds 10t of the total area ofhinge rod 94, failure of thebearings 54 or damage to the bearings goes down. A bearing area exceeding 20%, assures that the failure mode takes place elsewhere.Lid 10, of the exemplary embodiment, has forty fourbearings 54 comprising almost 23% of the area (or length) ofhinge rod 94, thus assuring thatlid 10, as described below, will always yield in another location. -
Lid opening end 60 is oppositelid hinge end 50. Openingend 60 includes opening means 62, such as ahandle 63, such as raisedcentral portion 64 under which a person may place fingers for openinglid 10. - Upper lip edge or
lip 85 of binfront wall 83F supports the periphery or near periphery oflower side 40 of openingend 60. Bin upper edge orlip 85 may support the periphery or near periphery oflower side 40 of either left orright side -
Panel 20 is further defined by a plurality oflongitudinal corrugations 21 spanning substantially between openingend 60 and hingeend 50 creating a plurality ofhills 22 andvalleys 26.Corrugations 21 act as a plurality of longitudinal flanged beams for greatly increasing the bending strength oflid 10. Preferably, corrugations 21 have a lateral cross section approximating a sine wave. A sine wave cross section ofcorrugations 21 facilitates the flow of plastic in the molding process such that the thickness and material strengths are more uniform.Corrugations 21 have a longitudinal neutral bending axis wherein half the moment of inertia is above the neutral axis and half is below. -
Lid 10 is adapted for bending upward upon failure in bending mode from compressive forces onfront end 60. At openingend 60,hills 22 ofcorrugations 21 slant down to the same level asvalleys 26 such that openingend 60 is relatively low, essentially at the lowest level oflid 10. Athinge end 50,hinge axis 99 is also relatively low, certainly below the neutral bending axis ofcorrugations 21, such that acompression line 12 betweenfront end 60 and hingeaxis 99 is below the neutral bending axis oflid 10. Since longitudinal compressive forces onlid 10 act oncompression line 12 and this is below the neutral bend axis,panel 20 will bend upward in bending failure due to compression loads. This is true even if the corrugations are not longitudinally upwardly arched as shown in the exemplary embodiment. - As best seen in FIGS. 5 and 6, rear and front elevation views of
lid 10, in the mid-section 77 ofpanel 20,corrugations 21 are upwardly arched laterally, that is the mean height ofpanel 20 rises toward the center. In the exemplary embodiment, bothhills 22 andvalleys 26 progressively rise toward the center ofpanel 20. This lateral arching increases the ability ofpanel 20 to hold loads, such as a person or weight placed onupper surface 30. - FIG. 7 combines side elevational sectional views of the lid of FIG. 2 taken on lines A1-D1 through
valleys 26 and lines A2-D2 through hills of FIG. 6. Longitudinal compressive forces onlid 10 act on acompression line 12 betweenfront end 60 and hingeaxis 99. As seen in FIG. 7,panel 20 is upwardly arched longitudinally. This increases its ability to hold loads, such as a person or weight placed onupper surface 30 and provides for water run off. - Additionally,
panel 20 is upwardly arched longitudinally such that the substantial mass is abovecompression line 12. This predisposes the middle oflid 10 to bend upward upon bending failure due to excessive longitudinal compressive force. - As best seen in FIGS. 4 and 8,
panel 10 includes one or more lateral bend zones or bendsections 13. FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 8-8 of FIG. 3.Bend sections 13 are predetermined lateral cross-sections of reduced strength that will fail first in bending mode failure. Inpanel 10,bend zones 13 are provided where said corrugations have a reduced resistance to bending, such as by having a reduced moment of inertia, such that longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at bend failure buckles said panel atbend zone 13. Inpanel 20, the lower portions ofcorrugations 21 alongbend zone 13 have a reducedcross-sectional area 14 as seen in FIG. 4 such that longitudinal compressive force on openingend 60 at bend failure buckleslid 10 upward at abend zone 13. - FIG. 11 is a front top perspective view of a
lid 10′ showing an alternate embodiment.Lid 10′ is the same aslid 10 except, instead of the lower portions ofcorrugations 21 alongbend zone 13 having a reducedcross-sectional area 14 as inlid 10,bend zone 13′ is created by reducing the resistance to bending by reducing the moment of inertia of the corrugations by lowering the tops ofhills 22 such as bylateral depressions 14′. In this manner,panel 20′ will first buckle upwards atbend zone 13′ at bend failure from compression load. As previously described,panel 20′ is predisposed to buckle upwards upon failure in bending mode, and the lateral weakening atbend zone 14′ controls the bending to first occur alongbend zone 13′. -
Lid 10 is made of sufficiently resilient material so as to spring back and return to its original configuration after being buckled. Polypropylene and/or other thermoplastic olefin material has been found to produce good results. - Because
lid 10 buckles upward in failure mode, gravity assists in returning the buckledlid 10 to its original configuration. Thus, since a buckled lid is typically still supported along a left or right side by the bin, gravity on the raised part will tend to straighten the lid and return the lid to its original configuration -
Lid 10 is adapted, such as by having a smoothly arched top surface, for shedding water and snow off the container and not into the bin. -
Lid 10 is adapted to be nestably stackable. As seen in FIG. 4,lid 10 includes nubs orprotrusions 45 onlower side 40 for maintaining nested,stacked lids 10 in a parallel relationship.Protrusions 45 assure that a stack oflids 10 maintains vertical alignment and they prevent nestedlids 10 from becoming stuck together. - FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line9-9 of
lid 10 of FIG. 3 further including additional identical lids 10 a, 10 b in nested, stacked configuration. FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line 10-10 oflid 10 of FIG. 3 further including additional lids 10 a, 10 b in nested, stacked configuration. As can be seen,protrusions 45 are adapted for maintaining nested,stacked lids 10 in a parallel relationship. - Although a particular embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described, various changes may be made in the form, composition, construction, and arrangement of the parts herein without sacrificing any of its advantages. Therefore, it is to be understood that all matter herein is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in any limiting sense, and it is intended to cover in the appended claims such modifications as come within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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1. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
a mid-section;
a hinge end including:
connection means for connecting to the lid mounting means such that said panel is rotatable about a hinge axis; and
an opening end opposite said hinge end; said panel defined by a plurality of longitudinal corrugations spanning X substantially between said opening end and said hinge end including a bend section at a predetermined lateral cross-section wherein the lower portions of said corrugations have a reduced cross-sectional area such that a longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at failure buckles said panel upward at said bend section.
2. The lid of claim 1 wherein:
said longitudinal corrugations are longitudinally upwardly-arched.
3. The lid of claim 1 wherein:
a compression line between said front end and said hinge axis is below the neutral bending axis of said lid substantially over the entire length of said lid.
4. The lid of claim 1 further including:
one or more additional bend sections.
5. The lid of claim 1 wherein:
said mid-section of said panel is upwardly laterally arched.
6. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
a mid-section;
a hinge end including:
connection means for connecting to the lid mounting means such that said panel is rotatable about a hinge axis; and
an opening end opposite said hinge end; said panel defined by a plurality of longitudinal corrugations spanning substantially between said opening end and said hinge end such that a longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at failure buckles said panel upward and including a bend section at a predetermined lateral cross-section wherein said corrugations have a reduced resistance to bending such that a longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at failure buckles said panel upward at said bend section.
7. The lid of claim 6 wherein:
said longitudinal corrugations are longitudinally upwardly-arched.
8. The lid of claim 6 wherein:
a compression line between said front end and said hinge axis is below the neutral bending axis of said lid substantially over the entire length of said lid.
9. The lid of claim 6 further including:
one or more additional bend sections.
10. The lid of claim 6 wherein:
said mid-section of said panel is upwardly laterally arched.
11. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
a hinge end including:
connection means for connecting to the lid mounting means such that said panel is rotatable about a hinge axis; and
an opening end opposite said hinge end defining a compression line between said opening end and said hinge axis; said panel defined by a plurality of longitudinal corrugations approximating a sine wave in lateral cross-section and spanning substantially between said opening end and said hinge end; said opening end and said hinge end disposed such that a compression line therebetween is below the neutral bending axis of said lid over the substantial length of said lid such that a longitudinal compressive force on said opening end, at failure, buckles said panel upward.
12. The lid of claim 11 wherein:
said longitudinal corrugations are longitudinally upwardly-arched.
13. The lid of claim 11 wherein:
said mid-section of said panel is upwardly laterally arched.
14. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
a mid-section;
a hinge end including:
connection means for connecting to the lid mounting means such that said panel is rotatable about a hinge axis; and
an opening end opposite said hinge end; said panel defined by a plurality of longitudinal, upwardly-arched corrugations spanning substantially between said opening end and said hinge end such that a longitudinal compressive force on said opening end at failure buckles said panel upward.
15. The lid of claim 14 wherein:
said mid-section of said panel is upwardly laterally arched.
16. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
a mid-section;
a hinge end including:
connection means for connecting to the lid mounting means such that said panel is rotatable about a hinge axis; and
an opening end opposite said hinge end; wherein said lids are adapted to be nestably stackable and said panel includes:
a plurality of protrusions for maintaining nested, stacked panels in a parallel relationship.
17. The lid of claim 16 wherein:
said panel is defined by a plurality of longitudinal, upwardly-arched corrugations spanning substantially between said opening end and said hinge end.
18. A lid for covering at least a portion of a top opening of a refuse bin; the refuse bin having a top opening and lid mounting means for mounting said lid including a hinge rod having an outer bearing surface and having a longitudinal axis; said lid comprising:
a rectangular panel formed from a resilient thermoplastic including:
an upper side,
a lower side;
an opening end: and
a hinge end including:
integral bearings for mounting said panel to the hinge rod for bearing against the hinge rod outer bearing surface such that said panel is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the hinge rod; wherein the bearing area exceeds 10% of the outer bearing surface of the hinge rod.
19. The lid of claim 18 wherein:
the bearing area exceeds 20% of the outer bearing surface of the hinge rod.
20. The lid of claim 18 wherein:
said panel is designed to yield to an end compressive force by buckling said panel upwardly before the hinge rod fails.
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