Sink refuse scoop

Nov. 12, 1935. η. l. adelstein 2,020,293

SINK REFUSE SCOOP

Filed May 11, 1934

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INVENTOR.

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Patented Nov. 12, 1935

2,020,293

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

2,020,293 SINK REFUSE SCOOP Herman L. Adelstein, Upland, Calif. Application May 11, 1934, Serial No. 725,141

Claims.

This invention relates to a scoop more particularly intended as a kitchen utensil to be used for handling garbage, but also capable of being used for other purposes.

An object of the invention is to provide a scoop of the kind stated which will foe of a sanitary character and which combines with its sanitary features improved means for draining surplus liquid from the refuse or garbage being removed 10 by its use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a scoop for household use which is furnished with means to lift by suction small, flat objects that could not be readily picked up by an ordinary 15 scoop, dust pan or shovel.

Still another object is to provide an improved sanitary cover member for the purpose of completely housing in the garbage being conveyed by the scoop.

Yet other objects, advantages and features of invention may hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates what is at present deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invention,

Mg. 1 is a perspective view of the device illustrating the manual manipulation thereof.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof on line 2—2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental front elevation illustrat30 ing the relation of the cover member when closed to the front part of the scoop body.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the container or body portion 5 of the scoop is desirably composed of sheet metal and is shown having 35 a generally rectangular floor 6 furnished at the back with an upstanding wall 7 and at each side with an upright wall 8, said walls 8 being each downwardly inclined at 9 at the front end of the scoop. These three walls are preferably 40 formed as flanges, being parts of the same sheet of metal as the floor or bottom member 6. The rear corners of the scoop may be chamfered as indicated at 7c.

The scoop body 5 is furnished with a twisted 45 wire handle shank 10, said wire being desirably made of two strands 10α, and the upper edges of the wall members 7, 7c, and 8 are shown curled over thus forming, along the upstanding sides of the scoop, a continuous tubular mem50 ber 12 which grips each strand 10α of the wire member 10. The outer end portion of the member 10 is embedded in the handle proper 13.

A resilient cover plate 15, provided with a mounting and operating member 16, is arranged 55 to be swung to and from a closing position with (Cl. 15—105) relation to the scoop body. Said member 16 has secured to it intermediate its ends a clip 17 which is pivoted at 18 to a bracket 19 secured to the front end portion of the handle proper 13.

The member 16, like the handle shank 10, is 5 shown made of a two-strand twisted wire, said wire having a looped end portion 21, covered by a sheet metal clip 21α, to form a thumb hold at one side of the pivot 18, and having attached thereto, at the other side of said pivot, one end 10 of a tension spring 22, the opposite end of said spring being attached to the handle shank 10.

Therefore by pressing the thumb upon the clip 21α the operator may lift the cover plate 15 to the open position against the opposition of the 15 spring 22.

The cover plate 15 is made sufficiently narrow to fit between the side walls 8 when said cover is in the closed position. To the outer edge portion of said plate 15 is secured an elastic lip 20 member 25, preferably a sheet or thin plate of rubber, having corrugations or scallops 26 along its outer edge. Said lip 25 is shown attached to the cover plate 15 by means of a clamping plate 27 and rivets 28, the flat end body portion of said 25 member 25 being gripped between the plates 15 and 27, and its corrugated portion 26 projecting beyond the outer edge of the cover plate and also above and below the plane thereof.

The scoop floor or bottom 6 is also shown pro- 30 vided with a lip member 30 consisting of a somewhat flexible rubber plate, which is clamped to the edge portion of the bottom plate 6 by means of an overlying clamping plate 31 and rivets 32. Said cover lip 26 comes into a superimposed 35 relation to the lip 30 when the cover is closed, this arrangement adapting the device for more readily draining the liquid from the garbage in the scoop, each of the corrugations 26 providing a vent passage 26α under the closed cover for 40 this purpose.

When the cover plate 15 is permitted to assume the closed position under the urge of the spring 22, it presses down upon any garbage contained within the scoop and thus squeezes the garbage 45 sufficiently to cause the water or other liquid to exude therefrom and, (assuming that the scoop is held in a downwardly tilted position) to flow out thru the vent passages 26α under the corrugations 26. 50

The tensility of the spring 22 also causes the corrugations 26 to press against the opposite lip 0 with sufficient force to assume a collapsed position thus modifying the size of the openings between said corrugations and said lip 39 55

2,020,293 to prevent foul, solid or semi-solid matter from exuding therethru when it is desired to drain the garbage contents of the scoop by holding the device with the mouth thereof directed downwardly.

The corrugated rubber portion of the cover, (being of a resiliently flexible character) also adapts it for being used to pick up adhesively small objects such as tea leaves and the like from a sink bottom or plane damp surface on account of the reflex action of the corrugations as they assume their normal position after being depressed, the scoop being held in an inverted position when this is done. The grooves between the corrugations deepen as the pressure is relaxed thus causing a gripping action upon objects within them as the corrugations reassume their original form.