Garbage-can support.

Application filed March 29,191S. Serial No. 17,728.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, Kate E. Ckaig, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State 5 of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garbage-Can Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garbage-can Ό support, and has for its principal object to provide a frame conforming in contour to the shape of the lower part of the can and provided with downwardly-projecting, outwardly divergent prongs which may be 15 pressed into the ground as a holding means· to prevent overturning of either the supporting frame or the can.

The invention includes a holder or support consisting of few and simple parts so 20 that they may be economically manufactured, will be durable in use, and may be conveniently assembled.

With the foregoing objects in view, the invention presents a novel construction, com-. 25 bination and arrangement of parts as described herein and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,—

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the garbage-can support. Fig. 2 is a view in side 30 elevation of the same, a garbage can also being shown and supported thereby.

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, the device consists of the upper and lower circular bands or rings 35 indicated, respectively, at 3 and 4, these having any suitable diameter and being sustained in spaced relation by a plurality of holder-members 5, each member 5 respectively consisting of a rod, wire or metallic strand 40 bent at one of its ends to provide a loop 6 for a mounting on the upper ring, and a vertically disposed brace 7, and bent adjacent to loop 6 to circumscribe the lower ring, as indicated at 8, and to provide a hori46 zontally disposed brace 9 to extend radially to the middle part of the lower ring, and to be disposed in a plane parallel with the plane of said last named ring, and bent to less than a right angle at substantially ⁶⁰ the middle of the lower ring, as indicated at 10, to traverse a clasp-member 11 and to provide a terminal, downwardly-extending prong 12.

It will thus be seen that the device consists of few and simple parts, each holdermember comprising two rectilinear braces disposed at right angles with reference to each other and adapted to engage the upper and lower rings, the clasp-member which is disposed centrally, in the plane of the lower ₆₀ring being traversed by each holder-member at the junction of its prong and horizontal brace.

While I have shown and prefer the use of four holder-members, a greater or lesser gg number may be employed, depending upon the diameter of the can to be supported, said holder-members being disposed at substantially uniform longitudinal intervals of the rings, as shown in the drawing. The device jq may be used to advantage for the support of a garbage can 13, the prongs being pressed into the ground as shown in Fig. 2.

Since the braces 7 are disposed at right angles to braces 9 the can will be supported 75 in a vertical position, preferably being seated upon members 9, as shown; and since each prong 12 is disposed at less than a right angle to the brace 9, of which it is an integral part, said prongs will be disposed out- 80 wardly-divergent with reference to each other and from clasp-member 11, to provide a very strong holding means to prevent the device from being overturned.

The advantages in the use of the device 85 will be appreciated since the can may be conveniently removed from the support when it is required to dump the contents of the can into a wagon, and on account of the arrangement of the braces and prongs, the 90 support effectually prevents the can from being blown over by wind-storms or overturned by dogs or accidental causes.

While I have described construction with exactness as to details, and prefer the same, 95 I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to these details, nor to size, form or proportion, but prefer to limit myself only to the construction described in the appended claims. 100