IP Library Granted Patent US 7,204,450
Granted Patent B1
US 7,204,450 · App. 10/870,150 · Granted Apr 17, 2007

Apparatus for dispensing garbage bags

Assignee: Olympic General Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,204,450
App. No.
10/870,150
Granted
Apr 17, 2007
Kind
B1
Abstract

An apparatus for dispensing garbage bags is described herein. The apparatus includes one or more sides, a bottom, connected to the sides, and a top, connected to the sides. The top includes a slit flap and one or more hole flaps. The slit flap defines a slit. Each hole flap defines a hole and overlaps the slit flap so that the hole is centered on the slit and garbage bags are dispensed through the slit and the hole when the top is closed. The garbage bags may be dispensed, one at a time, from the center of a vertical, upright roll of garbage bags.

Claims (36)

1. An apparatus for dispensing garbage bags comprising:

one or more sides;

a bottom, connected to the sides; and

a top, connected to the sides, including:

a slit flap, wherein the slit flap defines a slit; and

three hole flaps, wherein each hole flap defines a hole and overlaps the slit flap so that the hole is centered on the slit and garbage bags are dispensed through the slit and the hole when the top is closed, wherein two of the three hole flaps define a hole that is smaller than the hole defined by the third hole flap.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the third hole flap overlaps the two hole flaps with the smaller hole when the top is closed.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the one or more sides, the bottom and the top define an interior cavity, the interior cavity containing a supply of garbage bags.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the garbage bag supply is a roll of garbage bags vertically oriented in the interior cavity so that a center of the roll of garbage bags faces the top.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the garbage bags are dispensed from the center of the roll of garbage bags through the slit and the hole one garbage bag at a time.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising four sides.

7. An apparatus for dispensing garbage bags comprising:

one or more sides;

a bottom, connected to the sides; and

a top, connected to the sides, including:

a slit flap, wherein the slit flap defines a slit; and

one or more hole flaps, wherein each hole flap defines a hole and overlaps the slit flap so that the hole is centered on the slit and garbage bags are dispensed through the slit and the hole when the top is closed, the one or more hole flaps include three hole flaps and two of the three hole flaps are half-flaps.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the one or more sides, the bottom and the top define an interior cavity, the interior cavity containing a supply of garbage bags.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the garbage bag supply is a roll of garbage bags vertically oriented in the interior cavity so that a center of the roll of garbage bags faces the top.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the garbage bags are dispensed from the center of the roll of garbage bags through the slit and the hole one garbage bag at a time.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 comprising four sides.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the half-flaps define semi-circle openings.

13. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the hole is circular.

14. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the slit flap further defines a notch.

15. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein one of the one or more sides defines an opening, the opening providing access to an interior defined by the one or more sides, the bottom and the top.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the opening includes a cover that can close the opening.

17. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the one or more sides is a cylindrical side.

18. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the one or more sides are cubical sides.

19. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the one or more sides are corrugated cardboard.

20. An apparatus for dispensing garbage bags comprising:

one or more sides;

a bottom, connected to the sides; and

a top, connected to the sides, including:

a slit flap, wherein the slit flap defines a slit and a notch, wherein the notch is a v-shaped notch with a wide part of the v-shaped notch facing away from the slit; and

one or more hole flaps, wherein each hole flap defines a hole and overlaps the slit flap so that the hole is centered on the slit and garbage bags are dispensed through the slit and the hole when the top is closed.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein the top includes three hole flaps.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jan 10, 2008
From: OLYMPIC GENERAL CORPORATION
To: POLY-AMERICA, L.P.
Reel/Frame 020339/0635 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2004
From: MALLORY, TRENT HAMILTON
To: OLYMPIC GENERAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 015492/0647 →