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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2022
Big Belly Solar, Llc, Needham, MA (US);
Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Waltham, MA (US);
Kevin Menice, Medfield, MA (US);
David J. Skocypec, Stoughton, MA (US);
Thomas Olsen, Natick, MA (US);
Brian Phillips, Sherborn, MA (US);
Michael E. Feldman, Framingham, MA (US);
BIG BELLY SOLAR LLC, Needham, MA (US);
Abstract
A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.