Garbage can holder

Claim 1

A holder for a covered container, said holder including a rigid, one-piece and heavyweight base adapted to be placed upon a suitable support surface, two pairs of upright members having their lower ends rigidly embedded within said base with said upright members spaced generally equally about a circular area closed at its bottom by said base and the upright members of each pair being disposed generally diametrically opposite each other relative to said area, and an upper horizontal generally circular ring disposed above said base and to which generally equally peripherally spaced portions thereof the upper ends of said upright members are rigidly anchored, a pair of cross-bars extending generally along diameters of said area and spaced slightly above said base with the opposite ends of said bars rigidly anchored to the lower end portions of the corresponding pairs of uprights, said cross-bars serving to reinforce said uprights and also to define an X-type support frame for supporting the lower portion of a container disposed in said area within the confines of said ring and said container supported in a position elevated slightly above said base, an upstanding sleeve secured to and generally paralleling the outer side of the upper end portion of one of said uprights, an upstanding arm portion rotatably and slidably disposed through said sleeve, the upper end of said upstanding arm including a generally horizontal arm portion for overlying and downwardly urging the cover of a container supported from said cross-bars within said area, means yieldingly biasing said upstanding arm portion downwardly relative to said sleeve and said one upright, said sleeve and upstanding arm portion including coacting detent means operable to releasably retain said upstanding arm portion in first and second angularly displaced positions, said first angularly displaced position of said upstanding arm portion being in position thereof with said horizontal arm portion projecting inwardly of and extending generally radially of the center axis of said area and the second angularly displaced position of said upstanding arm portion being in a position with said horizontal arm portion disposed entirely outside said area.