Trash can with pull thruough bags

Abstract

A new trashcan with pull through liner bags for storing trash can liners therein. The inventive device includes a refuse chamber coupled to a disposable liner refill unit housing a continuous length of a plurality of separable trashcan liners. Both the liner refill unit and the refuse chamber include a first and second feed aperture which cooperate to allow the trashcan liner to be pulled through the refuse chamber from the disposable liner refill unit.

1 . A trash receptacle unit comprising: 
 a) a refuse chamber for holding refuse, said refuse chamber having (i) a first end having an open top; (ii) a second end having a bottom surface including a first feed aperture formed therethrough; (iii) a continuous upstanding side wall having an inner and outer surface, said side wall extending between the first and second end of the refuse chamber; (iv) a flange following a perimeter of the open top proximate the first end; and (v) a lip segment extending from the second end of the refuse chamber; and    b) a liner refill unit having (i) a housing segment housing a continuous length of a plurality of separable plastic trash can liners, said housing segment further including a top surface with a second feed aperture formed therethrough; (ii) a perimeter wall; and (iii) a shoulder extending between the housing segment and the perimeter wall; wherein, when the lip segment of the refuse chamber is inserted into the shoulder, the refuse chamber is removably coupled to the liner refill unit, the first feed aperture aligns with the second feed aperture, and a trash can liner can be pulled through the first and second feed aperture to line the inner surface of the side wall of the refuse chamber.    
   
   
       2 . The trash receptacle in  claim 1  wherein the liner refill unit is generally circular, wherein said perimeter wall is generally cylindrical and the shoulder and housing segment are generally circular.  
   
   
       3 . The trash receptacle in  claim 1  wherein the second feed aperture is located at the center of said top surface of the housing segment.  
   
   
       4 . The trash receptacle in  claim 1  wherein the first feed aperture is located at the center of said bottom surface of the refuse chamber.  
   
   
       5 . A trash receptacle unit comprising: 
 a) a replaceable liner housing unit containing a supply of separable plastic trash can liners in a helically wound string;    b) a trash can; and    c) a means for securing the replaceable base unit to the bottom of the trash can, with access to the trash can liners through cooperating aligned openings in a bottom surface of the trashcans and in the base unit.    
   
   
       6 . The trash receptacle in  claim 5 , wherein the replaceable base unit is generally disc-shaped.  
   
   
       7 . The trash receptacle in  claim 5  wherein the means for securing the replaceable base unit to the bottom of the trash can includes a lip segment extending from a bottom of the trash can and a shoulder disposed in the replaceable base unit wherein the lip segment is inserted into the shoulder segment removably securing the base unit to the trash can.