TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates in general to an arrangement in a vessel or a container adapted principally for waste and waste products, and more specifically to such an arrangement where one or more waste deposit bins or container units are secured in order, in a first adjusted position, to be completely enclosed by a cabinet provided with a pivotal hatch or door, when said hatch assumes a closed position, and in a second adjusted position to assume a position exposing the upper part of one or more units, in which position an opening associated with the unit will be located outside said cabinet, when said hatch assumes an opened position.

More particularly, the invention is based upon an arrangement where a rotational movement of said hatch, from a closed position towards and to an opened position, actuates, by the intermediary of a pivotal movement generated thereby, a means adapted to displace said unit from an inner position to an outer position or vice versa.

The present invention principally relates to the utilisation of a plurality of units, each one of which being intended for and adapted to its waste product and its waste category, but it should nevertheless be observed that the arrangement, according to the present invention, may very well be put into use in but a single vessel unit.

BACKGROUND ART

Methods, arrangements and constructions relating to the above-disclosed technical field and properties are previously known in different embodiments.

Thus, different arrangements are previously known in the art in order, in a vessel or a container unit adapted for waste, where a unit is secured in order, in a first adjusted position, to be enclosed by a cabinet provided with a hatch, when said hatch assumes a closed position and, in a second adjusted position, to assume a position exposing

the unit, in which position an opening associated with the unit will be located outside said cabinet when said hatch assumes an opened position.

More specifically, the utilisation is proposed in association with said previously known arrangement of a vertically disposed pivotal axis for the hatch and when the hatch is pivoted from said closed position towards and to said opened position, a means is actuated which entails that one or more units will be displaced in a horizontal direction from said first inner adjusted position to said second outer adjusted position and thereby expose an opening associated with the vessel unit.

It is likewise previously known in the art to propose, with a view to waste management, a waste sorting by utilising a first vessel unit for a first waste category, a second vessel unit for a second waste category, and so on.

There are also arrangements forming part of the prior art where a pivot or hinge is oriented horizontally at the lower region of a hatch unit so that the upper edge of the hatch opens by a substantially horizontal parallel movement in relation to the front edge region of the cabinet.

In such instance, reference is made to the contents of Patent Publication DE-Al-IOl 14 658, where means, in the form a piston and cylinder assembly (22), is adapted to control the tilting movement of a hatch.

The contents of European Patent Application EP-A2-0260565, and Patent Publications DE-A1-43 10 841 and US-A-5 215 365 constitute examples of prior art technology.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION TECHNICAL PROBLEM Considering the circumstance that the technical deliberations which a person skilled in the art must make in order to be able to offer a solution to one or more set technical problems, is initially a necessary insight into the measures and/or sequence

of measures to be implemented and, on the other hand, a necessary selection of the means required, the following technical problems are, in view hereof, likely to be relevant in the evolution of the subject matter of the present invention.

Under consideration of the state of the art, as described above, it should therefore be seen as a technical problem to be able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the technical measures and considerations which will be required in order, in an arrangement for a vessel or container adapted for waste of the type intimated by way of introduction, to utilise a pivotal or tilting movement of a hatch, from a closed position towards and to an opened position, in order thereby to influence a means, actuable by a generated pivotal movement, adapted to be able to displace, along the inner surface of the hatch and more or less vertically, said unit where said means is to be adapted to displace said unit from a lower inner position to an upper outer position or vice versa.

There resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the technical measures and deliberations which will be required in order to cause a plurality of units, intended for waste sorting at source, to be coordinated side-by-side against a frame structure.

There resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the constructive measures which will be required in order to cause a coordination of said units to be adapted to extend, by the intermediary of a holder unit, transversely of two coordinated hatch units.

There also resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the constructive measures which will be required in order to cause a pivot common to the hatch units and its pivotal axis to be oriented horizontally at lower regions of the hatch unit or units, respectively.

There resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the constructive measures which are required in

order to allow a space, which is associated with the cabinet and is located beneath the unit when this assumes its first, inner adjusted position, to be adapted to serve as a storage space for storage crates.

There resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the constructive measures which are required in order to cause said means to be adapted in order readily to cause a vertical pattern of movement for the unit related to the hatch, whereby the movement varies between said two adjustment positions.

There resides a technical problem in being able to realise the importance of, the advantages associated with and/or the constructive measures which are required in order to cause an upper opening allocated to the unit to be obliquely cut, seen from the hatch unit, downwards and in a direction towards the cabinet.

SOLUTION

In such instance, the present invention takes as its point of origin the prior art as disclosed by way of introduction applicable to an arrangement for a vessel or container adapted for waste, and where the unit is secured in order, in a first adjusted position, to be enclosed by a cabinet provided with a hatch, when said hatch assumes a closed position, and in a second adjusted position, to assume a position exposing the unit, in which position an opening associated with the unit is located outside said cabinet when said hatch assumes an opened position.

Further, the present invention relates to such arrangements where a rotation of said hatch, from said closed position towards and to said opened position, actuates, by the intermediary of a thus generated rotational movement, a means adapted to cause a displacement of said unit from an inner position to an outer position, or vice versa.

In order to be able to resolve one or more of the above-disclosed technical problems, the present invention specifically discloses that the prior art technology be supplemented by means, being adapted to cause a displacement of said unit in a

vertical direction from an inner lower position towards an outer upper position, the movement being directed along an inner surface of the hatch unit.

As preferred embodiments, falling within the scope of the basic concept of the present invention, it is further disclosed that a number of units, particularly adapted for a sorting at source of waste, are to be coordinated side by side.

Further, it is disclosed that such a coordination of said units is to be adapted to extend, by the intermediary of a holder unit, transversely of two coordinated hatch units.

According to the present invention, it is further disclosed that a hinge or pivot is to be oriented horizontally at the lower regions of the hatch units.

The invention further discloses an arrangement where a space, associated with a cabinet and located under the unit when this assumes its first adjusted position, is adapted to serve as a storage space for storage crates.

More specifically, the present invention discloses that said means be adapted for creating a vertical pattern of movement for the unit which varies between said two adjusted positions.

It is further disclosed that an upper opening allocated to the unit be obliquely cut downwards and in a direction inwards towards the cabinet.

ADVANTAGES

The advantages which may principally be deemed to be characteristic of the present invention and the specific significative characterising features disclosed thereby is that there have hereby been created the preconditions in order, in an arrangement for a vessel or a container unit adapted for waste where a unit is secured in order, in a first adjusted position, to be enclosed by a cabinet provided with a hatch or door, when said hatch assumes a closed position and, in a second adjusted position,

assumes a position exposing the unit, in which position an opening associated with the unit will be located outside said cabinet, when said hatch assumes an opened position.

A pivoting of the hatch, from said closed position towards and to said opened position, by the intermediary of a lower horizontally oriented pivot axis is to actuate a means which is adapted to cause a displacement of said unit or several coordinated units from an inner lower position to an outer upper position.

More particularly, this is a matter of being able to expose a number of units where each one is intended for a waste category allocated to the unit and where the placing of waste in the unit and the removal of a plastic bag enclosing waste may be put into effect while maintaining a well adapted working position.

Further, the arrangement is adapted to be able to be mounted into existing cabinets such as a cabinet provided with a sink unit, or be able to be utilised in any new production of kitchen facilities.

That which may principally be deemed to be characteristic of the present invention is disclosed in the characterising clause of appended Claim 1.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWING

One currently proposed embodiment, displaying the significative characterising features associated with the present invention, will now be described in greater detail hereinbelow for purposes of exemplification and with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a section view through a cabinet provided with a closed hatch where the arrangement disclosed according to the present invention, is shown in side elevation representing a first adjusted position;

Fig. 2 is a section and a view corresponding to that of Fig. 1 where the hatch of the cabinet assumes a second adjusted position, a position exposing the vessel or

container unit, in which position an opening associated with the unit will be located outside said cabinet;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the second adjusted position according to Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is intended to illustrate the position of said means in said first adjusted position, said means being adapted, in response to an adjustment position tilting the hatch, to actuate a hoist device for the units; and Fig. 5 is intended to illustrate the position of said means at said second adjusted position.

DESCRIPTION OF CURRENTLY PROPOSED EMBODIMENT

It should, by way of introduction, be emphasised that, in the following description of one currently proposed embodiment which displays the significative characterising features associated with the present invention and which is clarified by means of the figures shown in the accompanying drawing, we have chosen terms and a specific terminology with the intention of principally clarifying the present invention in this instance.

It should, however, be observed in this context that the expressions selected here should not be seen as restrictive exclusively to the terms selected and utilised here, but that it be understood that each thus selected term is to be interpreted so that, in addition, it encompasses all technical equivalents which function in the same or substantially the same manner in order in such instance to be able to attain the same or substantially the same intentions and/or technical effects.

With reference to the accompanying Figs. 1 to 5, the basic preconditions for the present invention are thus illustrated schematically and in detail and where the significative properties or features associated with the present invention are given concrete form by means of the currently proposed embodiment described in greater detail hereinbelow.

Thus, Figs. 1, 2 and 3 show an arrangement 1 in a vessel or container unit 2 adapted for waste.

The embodiment illustrates the utilisation of three different vessel or container units, each one adapted for a selected waste category.

Since these three units 2a, (2b) and (2c) are coordinated by the intermediary of a frame construction and a holder unit, the following description will concentrate on the preconditions which apply exclusively to the vessel or container unit 2a.

Each one of the vessel units, and then in particular unit 2a, is secured in said frame construction in order, in a first adjustment or adjusted position, according to Fig. 1, to be enclosed within a cabinet 3 provided with a door or hatch 3 a, when said hatch or hatch unit 3a assumes a closed position.

In a second adjustment or adjusted position, according to Fig. 2, the unit 2a is to assume en exposing position in which position an opening 2al associated with the vessel unit 2a is located outside said cabinet 3 and a front surface or alternatively edge portion 3d associated with the cabinet 3, when said hatch 3a assumes an outwardly pivoted opened position by means of a tilting movement.

The hatch 3 a displays a lower horizontally oriented degree of pivot 3b, where an opening angle "a" is adapted to be capable of assuming a selected value, for example of between 15 and 30°.

More particularly, the present invention discloses that a pivotal or tilting movement of said hatch 3a from said closed position, according to Fig. 1, towards and to said open position, according to Fig. 2, acts, by the intermediary of a thus generated movement, on a means 4, more precisely described in Figs. 4 and 5, and where said means 4 is adapted to cause a displacement of said unit 2a from an inner lower position according to Fig. 1, to an outer upper position, according to Fig. 2, or vice versa.

More specifically, it is disclosed that one of said means 4, according to Fig. 4, is, according to the invention, to be adapted to cause a displacement of said unit 2a from the inner lower position to the outer upper position along the inner surface of the hatch unit 3 a.

The displacement from the position illustrated in Fig. 1 to the position illustrated in Fig. 2 (or vice versa) takes place in a manifestly vertical direction, but in an exactly parallel direction in relation to the hatch unit 3 a.

With reference to Fig. 3, this figure illustrates that a number of laterally-related vessel or container units 2a, (2b) and (2c), respectively, for sorting at source of waste depending upon waste category, are coordinated side-by-side and supported by a frame structure 5 and a holder unit 6.

By the intermediary of the frame structure 5, such a coordination of said units 2a, (2b) and (2c), respectively, is adapted to extend via a holder unit 6, oriented transversely of two coordinated hatch units, where these are illustrated in Fig. 3 as a first hatch unit 3a and a second hatch unit 3a'.

The pivot 3b is oriented horizontally to and related to the lower regions of the hatch units 3a, 3a' and is oriented on the same level as a base 7 adapted for the cabinet.

A device associated with the hatch unit is adapted to permit activation of a pivot with a vertical axis of pivot which then implies that, when the hatches 3 a, 3 a' assume the position illustrated in Fig. 1, said device is actuated so that the horizontal pivot axis 3b is disengaged and instead each vertical pivot axis is engaged, it thereby being ensured that the hatch unit 3 a may pivot about a right-hand and vertical pivot axis and that the hatch unit 3 a' may pivot about a left-hand and vertical pivot axis, respectively.

Devices of the relevant type are per se known in the art.

More particularly, the present invention discloses that a space 3c associated with a cabinet and located under the unit 2a when this assumes its first adjusted position, according to Fig. 1, is adapted to serve as a storage space for a number (not shown) of laterally disposed storage crates 9.

More particularly, said means 4 is adapted to create a manifest vertical pattern of movement for the unit 2a which is, by a selected angle of pivot, varying between said two adjusted positions and each interjacent position.

The means 4 consists of a rod (or two rods oriented in parallel) and is, in its upper end 4a, pivotally secured in a pivot shaft 4a' adjacent the edge 3d, and in its lower end 4b pivotally secured in a pivot shaft 4b'.

The pivot shaft 4b' is secured to a carriage 10 which, via runners, is movably disposed along a profile 11 included in the frame construction 5.

Pairwise carriages 10, 10' are coordinated to a holder unit 6.

A comparison between the position of the carriage 10 in Fig. 4 and the position of the carriage in Fig. 5 illustrates the displacement movement of the unit 2a, also illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

An upper opening 2al allocated to the unit 2a is obliquely cut downwards and in a direction inwards and towards the cabinet 3 in order to connect to and approach the outer configuration 11 a of a sink unit 11.

The present invention is naturally not restricted to the embodiment disclosed above by way of example but may undergo modifications without departing from the scope of the inventive concept as disclosed in the appended claims.