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A container device by which a patron of a hotel or motel can leave articles such as shoes outwardly of the patron\s room door for pick up and servicing by an attendant, but with the assuredness that the articles are locked for withdrawal only by an attendant who has lock-operation ability. No such a

A container device by which a patron of a hotel or motel can leave articles such as shoes outwardly of the patron\s room door for pick up and servicing by an attendant, but with the assuredness that the articles are locked for withdrawal only by an attendant who has lock-operation ability. No such ability is required of the patron, who achieves the locked condition of a container by the embrace of the patron\s door by an abutment carried by a retainer connected to the container; and it is provided that the room door, in closed condition, itself is used both to block the container\s access opening as well as to provide an abutment co-operating with the abutment to block movement of the device away from the door. The abutment is made movable, providing if desired another setting in which a full release of the container is achieved by pulling the abutment and its retainer outwardly of the door.

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A security-providing container device, for co-operation with a door having an open and a closed condition, the base portion of the door being slightly above the floor, the device comprising, in combination: a container, the container having a base, a hollow interior, and an access opening which open

A security-providing container device, for co-operation with a door having an open and a closed condition, the base portion of the door being slightly above the floor, the device comprising, in combination: a container, the container having a base, a hollow interior, and an access opening which opens to the container\s interior, a slender retainer means, the container having support means which support the retainer means for rotation about its axis, and with a portion of the retainer means extending from the container, lock means manually accessible from a portion of the container removed from the portion of the container from which the retainer means extends, the lock means permitting the retainer means to be rotated when manipulated, the retainer means provided with an abutment spaced from the axis of the retainer means, the abutment being carried by the said extending portion of the retainer means extending from the container, the support means supporting the retainer means closely adjacent the container\s base, such that the portion of the retainer means which extends from the container can lie, and be moved past the plane of the door, between the base portion of the door and the floor, the arrangement providing for operativity as follows, assuming the door is then in open condition: (a) When a patron desires to leave an article of the patron outwardly of the door, such as for servicing and subsequent return by an attendant, the patron deposits the article through the container\s access opening and into its interior, and (b) the patron places the container onto the floor outwardly of but adjacent the door, and adjacent the free side edge of the door, with the base of the container lying on the floor, and (c) while the door is still in open condition, the patron pushes the extending portion of the retainer means in the space between the floor and the base portion of the door, to a position inwardly of the free side edge of the door, and (d) the patron closes the door, and (e) the patron may rotate the extending portion of the retainer means so that, if not already above, the abutment is rotated to be above the base of the door, thus providing an abutting condition of the abutment and door, with the abutment being engageable with the interior face of the door to block the container from being moved outwardly of the door, unless the retainer means is rotated to bring the abutment to a non-abutting condition in which the abutment is lower than the base of the door and thus free of abutment with the door, and (f) an attendant, who has the means to unlock the lock means, can then unlock the lock means and achieve a rotation of retainer means to free its abutment from abutting engagement with the door, by rotating it from abutting condition to non-abutting condition, and (g) the attendant can then pull the container outwardly, fully free from adjacency to the door, during which movement the extending portion of the retainer means, including its abutment, pass between the base of the door and the floor, and becomes entirely free of the door, and (h) when the attendant subsequently returns the patron\s article and the container to adjacency to the closed door, the container base lying on the floor, the attendant rotates the retainer means to its position in which the abutment is not in abutting condition, unless it is already in non-abutting condition, and (i) the attendant pushes the container to a position closely adjacent the door such that the abutment may be rotated to abutting condition inwardly of the door when positioned inwardly of the door, and (j) an attendant then pushes the abutment and the extending portion of the retainer means through the space between the base of the door and the floor, and (k) the attendant then rotates retainer means to cause the abutment to be moved into abutting condition, and (l) the attendant locks the lock means to block the retainer means from being rotated to change the abutment from its abutting condition to a non-abutting condition.