US 12,269,677 B2
Safety pail
Spiro Fourniotis, Bayside, NY (US); and Steven Martin Cohen, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Spiro Fourniotis, Bayside, NY (US); and Steven Martin Cohen, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/056,654.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/280,612, filed on Nov. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0150762 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. B65F 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65F 1/068 (2013.01) [B65F 2220/101 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A trash receptacle assembly comprising,
a first section having a base and an incomplete peripheral wall that extends upwardly from said base, wherein said incomplete peripheral wall has a top edge, a first side edge, a second side edge, wherein said top edge has a gap formed therein that extends between said first side edge and said second side edge;
guide tracks formed along at least part of said first side edge and said second side edge;
a second section containing a peripheral wall segment with a third side edge, a fourth side edge, and a wall band that extends from said third side edge to said fourth side edge, wherein said wall band has a lower edge,
wherein said peripheral wall segment is shaped and sized to fill said gap in said incomplete peripheral wall with said lower edge of said wall band contacting and covering said top edge of said incomplete peripheral wall,
wherein said second section is completely separate and distinct from said first section, and wherein said second section can selectively slide into said guide tracks and is received and retained by said guide tracks therein retaining said second section in said gap.