FR2500735A1 - Door mounted container for bread and mail - has outer protective lid with perforated access door and identity plate - Google Patents

Abstract

The domestic container for the hygienic storage of bread delivered to the door has an outer protective lid. There is a perforated access door for the bread to be passed through, as well as mail, into two separate compartments. The outer protective lid has a cut out for the owner's identity plate. The access door (5) is lockable (9) and has a part (7) for the bread, and a part (6) for letters.

Description

 The present invention relates to household equipment which improves the delivery and storage of bread at home; by associating the distribution of bread with that of mail, it allows their simultaneous reception by the recipient and responds to the fact that today the supply of bread adopts a distribution mode often identical to that of mail.

 Some makeshift solutions are applied by individuals (boots of all kinds) and bakers (plastic bags). As regards the conservation of a food product, it cannot be said that these palliatives meet the requirements of hygiene (no washable cloth bag ...), protection against bad weather (rain ...), natural or artificial pollution (birds, dust, exhaust fumes in town, pilferage ...).

 The external storage of bread and mail being done so far in separate packaging, their recovery imposes, in any case, a double approach. None of the solutions practiced to date therefore ensures, in a correct manner, the delivery, protection and preservation of the bread outside the home until it is picked up, often several hours later, by its recipient. This situation can therefore alter the product, or even let it set by a third party, and thus compromise this marketing method.

 Domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread, according to the invention, proposes to remedy these multiple drawbacks. The presence of a cover will protect the unit against the weather. According to a first variant, the weather protection cover may have, on its external face, a notch in which the owner's identity card is introduced. According to a second variant, the weather protection cover may have, on its internal side, a correspondence compartment with the supplier (payment ...) which can be closed, if necessary, by a key or a padlock. the access door, provided with a lock, has a length slightly shorter than that of the potter, and thus cleans a slit which, by permitting the production of mail, prohibits its recovery from the interior. This access door has a perforation in its center, for the introduction of bread. A retractable cane prohibits its recovery from the outside. According to a variant, the introduction of bulky breads will be facilitated by the removal of this device.

 The separation between the bread and mail compartments by a partition prevents any contact between the two products. This partition will be tilted to ensure the largest use of the available volume and to facilitate the maintenance of the bread compartment. On this partition rests a device intended to support a fabric bag where the bread will be kept. This is for the hygiene of the food product and the cleanliness of its container.

The layout of the set is suitable for isolated use but also for group use. For buildings or other group distribution centers, the provision in "batteries" does not in any way limit the proper use of domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread.

The invention may include features allowing its attachment to a support or other domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread.

Observation of the various attached diagrams will facilitate understanding of the invention: - Figure 1 shows in perspective and in the iron position
set up domestic equipment for receiving mail
and bread prepared according to the invention.

- Figure 2 shows in perspective, the cover of
open weather protection equipment
domestic for receiving mail and bread
established according to the invention.

- Figure 3 shows in perspective, the access door
open, domestic equipment for the reception of
mail and bread prepared according to the invention.

- Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of the equipment
domestic for receiving mail and bread.

- Figure 5 is a median vertical section along the
line A / A.

- Figure 6 shows several household appliances
for receiving mail and bread in battery,
vertical position.

- Figure 7 shows several household appliances
for receiving mail and bread in battery,
horizontal position.

 As shown in Figure 1, domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread is in the form of a parallelepiped made of a material suitable for the conditions of use having a horizontal bottom (1) and a inclined upper protective cover (2) for rainwater runoff, a notch on the outside of the cover (3) allows the owner's identification plate to be inserted.

 Figure 2: the inner face of the cover has a compartment (4) for correspondence with the supplier.

The access door (5), the same width as the box, is slightly shorter, which saves mail access (6). The center of this door has a perforation (7) for introducing the bread. A retractable cone (figure 3 n08) prohibits its exit. This door is provided with a lock (figure 2 n 9) which guarantees the inviolability of the whole. A transverse wall (figure 4 and 5 n010) which prohibits any communication between the two compartments joins the front wall of the domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread, and gives the bread compartment an irregular pentagon section (figure 5 n0 11) and in the mail compartment, a triangular section (figure 5 N012).

 This arrangement facilitates the possible cleaning of the bread compartment and ensures the full use of the available volume which will be occupied as much as possible by the bread bag (figure 5 N01)). Figures 6 and 7 show the different grouping possibilities (vertical and horizontal) offered by the invention.

 A variant of the model will reside in the simplification of the latter to a simple bread bottle, the integrated elements of which relate to the letter box will have been replaced by attachment points of an external letter box.

Claims (6)

R E V E N D I C A T I O N S.  1 - Domestic equipment for the reception of mail and bread, characterized in that it includes: an external protective cover a perforated access door allowing the introQuction of the  bread and whose size leaves a passage for the mail two distinct compartments, the first for the reception  mail, the second for bread.  2 - Domestic equipment for the reception of mail and bread according to claim 1, consisting of a letter boot (Figure 5 no 12) and a bread boot (Figure 5 no 111) whose upper part is inclined.  3 - Domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread according to claim 1 or 2, the outer protective cover has at its outer part a notch (3) where will be introduced the owner's identification plate.  4 - Domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread according to one of the preceding claims, the inner part of the cover has a correspondence compartment (4) with the supplier.  5 - Domestic equipment for receiving mail and bread according to one of the preceding claims, the access door (5), lockable (9), allows access to bread (7) and leaves a passage for letters (6).  6 - Domestic equipment for the reception of mail and bread, the integrated elements of which relate to the boot of letters can be replaced by fixing points of an external mailbox.