DESCRIPTION
[0001] The present invention relates to a container for a waste bag suitable to be placed
in a kitchen cabinet, in particular suited for kitchen cabinets having a frame work
for receiving one or more waste bags.
[0002] Collection of compostable house hold waste, substantially food waste, is carried
out to a still greater extent. Such waste is composted or utilized for the production
of biogas, which is a renewable energy source. Thereby, in some communes the waste
is collected in plastic bags, but paper bags are substantially used. These paper bags
are standardized having a opening measure of 140 to 150 x 185 to 200 mm and a height
of 310 to 360 mm in an unfolded state. The bottom may be flat or V-shaped. There is
an increased demand for paper bags as these can be part of the eco-circulation system,
either at composting, or at the production of biogas. Plastic bags cause several problems
at the pre-treatment prior to putrefaction as well as recirculation to the arable
land, they need to be separated off as well, whereby great losses of the usable waste
will appear.
[0003] Previously, different containers for the waste bag have been used by the households.
Most often these containers are in the form of a rectangular box or a basket having
an opening in one of its gable ends for introducing a bag therein. The container is
often provided with a number of openings at its sides to provide for ventilation of
the space around the bag to improve drying out of the waste via the bag wall. In some
cases the upper edge of the container is closed to stabilize the upper edge of the
bag and to support the letting down of waste into the bag. The upper edge is often
with maintained edge posts which are stabilized with inclined struts facing down to
a basket unit which stabilizes the bag sidewise.
[0004] Today, different extendable frameworks are used in modern kitchen cabinets, which
frame works run on extendable guides, which frame works are intended to support one
or more waste bags retaining vessels to separate different waste fractions. These
frame works are strictly standardized from each manufacturer, as there is no branch
standard and thereby great demands are put on the containers which are to be used
therein. It has thus been shown that the standard of the bag and thereby the size
of the container has problem fitting in into these new frame works.
[0005] The present invention intends to solve this problem.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
[0006] The present invention relates to a rectangular ventilated container for a waste bag
manufactured of a polymer material, which container comprises a bottom basket part
provided with four flexible corner posts.
[0007] The term rectangular will also include a quadratic form being a special case of the
rectangle, thus square.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
[0008] The present invention will be described more in detail below with reference to FIG.
1 which shows an embodiment of the invention seen in a perspective view.
[0009] 1 denotes a four-sided basket having partially open sides 2, 3. The openings 2, 3
comprise 30 to 50 % of the respective side area and are arranged to allow for a good
air circulation around a bag brought therein. The basket part is intended to maintain
a waste bag preferably manufactured of paper or bioplastic (not shown). The bottom
of the basket part 1 is provided with wave shaped, ribbon-like carriers 4 which carriers
run from side to side. The carriers 4 are wave shaped to allow for air circulation
beneath the bottom of an introduced and to create a larger number of resting points
for an introduced bag in order to reduce the point pressure/the load on the bag. In
each corner of the basket part a corner post 5 is arranged, which post is only attached
at its bottom part 6 to the basket part 1. This admits that the post 5 can both be
bended as well as turned to be able to be fitted into the different standardized frame
works present. In particular one frame work requires an adaptation of the container
in such a way that the corner posts are pressed towards the centre with a total of
5 to 10 mm. The corner posts 5 comprise 25 to 70 % of the total height of the container,
whereby having a larger free height the said adaptation is facilitated to an intended
frame work. Preferably the corner posts 5 have the shape of a quarter/fourth cylinder
wall, which facilitates the flexibility of the corner post.
1. Square ventilating container for a waste bag, which container is manufactured in a
flexible material and comprises a basket part (1) having partially open sides (2,
3), characterized in that the basket part (1) comprises four corner posts (5), which are only anchored to said
basket part (1) at their bottom part (6), which allows the respective corner post
(5) to be arranged to be able to be turned and/or bent for adaptation into a frame
work.
