US 12,269,675 B2
Device for compartmentalizing a waste container
Patricia Johanna Ingrid De Vries, Spijk (NL)
Assigned to Vriflex Holding B.V., Spijk (NL)
Appl. No. 17/797,169
Filed by Vriflex Holding B.V., Spijk (NL)
PCT Filed Jan. 12, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/050489
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/160356, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2024898 (NL), filed on Feb. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059941 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B65F 1/06 (2006.01); B65F 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65F 1/0046 (2013.01) [B65F 1/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for compartmentalizing a container into several waste compartments, comprising:
an attachment means, which is configured to be attached to an edge of the container, which edge defines an access to a space for holding waste, and
a plurality of dividing bodies, wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies is configured, in use, to extend inside the edge of the container in order to divide the access into a first opening of a first compartment and at least one second opening of a second compartment,
wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies is attachable to the edge of the container by means of the attachment means,
wherein the dividing bodies and the attachment means are at least partly flexible in order to be adjustable between a first, relatively compact, position of the device and at least one further, extended, position of the device,
wherein the attachment means comprises a peripheral element, which peripheral element is configured to be provided, in use, around the access to the container,
wherein the peripheral element is at least partly elastic in order to vary the length of the periphery of the peripheral element,
wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies is at least partly elastic in order to vary a length of the dividing body,
wherein the device comprises a central junction element,
wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies extends between a first coupling location where the dividing body is coupled to the central junction element and a second coupling location where the dividing body is coupled to the peripheral element,
wherein the central junction element comprises a ring structure, wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies is coupled to the ring structure of the central junction element at the first coupling location,
wherein the ring structure comprises a first rigid ring element and a second elastic ring element which is positioned inside the first rigid ring element, and
wherein each dividing body of the plurality of dividing bodies is coupled to the first rigid ring element and to the second elastic ring element at the first coupling location.