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A protective liner for removable insertion into a trash bag or other container comprises an essentially rectangular sheet of strong, flexible material The dimensions of the liner are tailored to the dimensions of the bag or container into which it is to be placed. The preferred embodiment is provide

A protective liner for removable insertion into a trash bag or other container comprises an essentially rectangular sheet of strong, flexible material The dimensions of the liner are tailored to the dimensions of the bag or container into which it is to be placed. The preferred embodiment is provided with locking means at one corner, a rounded adjacent corner and is made of one millimeter thick polyethylene. The preferred embodiment is particularly adapted to be suitable for use with the broad category of trash bags known as 30-gallon trash bags. In use, the liner is rolled along its longer axis into a cylinder with an effective diameter smaller than that of the associated container, the overlapping material is pinched together, the cylinder is inserted into the container, and compression is released (allowing the liner to expand to fill the container). Optionally, the liner is locked in place. The container may then be filled with little danger of puncturing the sides. After filling, the liner may be unlocked (if appropriate) and retracted upward.

대표청구항 ▼

A protective liner insertable within a flexible trash bag so that the bag and liner can assume an upright expanded condition while trash is being deposited into the space circumscribed by the liner; said liner comprising a rectangular sheet of stiff flexible material devoid of creases or projections

A protective liner insertable within a flexible trash bag so that the bag and liner can assume an upright expanded condition while trash is being deposited into the space circumscribed by the liner; said liner comprising a rectangular sheet of stiff flexible material devoid of creases or projections; said rectangular sheet having a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge; the second side edge extending along a substantially continuous, linear line; the top and bottom edges and the first and second side edges each forming opposed outer boundaries of the liner; a single row of C-shaped slits formed in said sheet near the sheet top edge; said row of C-shaped slits proceeding from a point near said first side edge of the sheet and away therefrom along an imaginary line parallel to the sheet top edge; each C-shaped slit having its convex edge facing said first side edge and its concave edge facing away from said first side edge; each C-shaped slit forming a tab within the space circumscribed by the slit; each C-shaped slit being large enough so that the user can deflect the tab out of the sheet plane by exerting finger pressure on the tab surface; said liner being insertable into a flexible trash bag in a rolled up condition so that the axis of the roll is parallel to the sheet side edges, and so that the side edge area containing the C-shaped slits is located outside the other non-slit side edge area; said liner being capable of being partially unrolled while within a trash bag, such that said second side edge of the sheet is moved across the C-shaped slits to a position wherein the upper portion of the partially unrolled sheet substantially fills the space circumscribed by the bag; the tabs formed by said C-shaped slits being selectively deflectable out of the sheet plane away from the bag inner surface by inward finger pressure, such that said second side edge of the sheet extends between the selected tab and the first side edge of the sheet; said selected tab constituting a locking element to prevent the sheet from collapsing while it is inserted in the bag.