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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1981
Cosmo N Tisbo, Barrington, IL (US);
Thomas A Tisbo, Barrington, IL (US);
Custom Plastics, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plastic container for holding organic matter during decomposition of the organic matter. The container includes a lower section. The lower section includes a plurality of flat sides positioned in a substantially vertical attitude. The flat sides are joined at opposite edges to form a closed figure having an open bottom. An upper section is mounted on the lower section. The upper section includes a number of flat sides equal in number to the flat sides in the lower section. The flat sides of the upper section are positioned in a substantially vertical attitude and joined at opposite ends to form a closed figure. Each of the flat sides of the upper section is connected to a respective flat side of a lower section. Each of the flat sides of the upper and lower sections has a rectangular outline. Each flat side has a bead along a vertical edge and an elongated socket formed integral with the opposite vertical edge. Each socket is adapted for slidably receiving the bead of a like flat side for interconnecting the flat sides. Each of the flat sides has a plurality of horizontal recesses with a vent in each of the recesses to allow gases to pass from one side of the flat side to the other side of the flat side. Each flat side has an indentation in its upper edge and a ridge formed in the indentation in the flat side. Each flat side has a flexible ear formed integral with its lower edge, which ear is mateably lockably positionable in the indentation of a like flat side. Each ear has a groove for mateably receiving the ridge in the indentation for locking to each other vertically aligned flat sides. The container includes a cover removably mounted on the upper edge of the upper section.