Patent ID: 6382743
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A news-stand, which includes a compartment suitable for the storage therein of a stack of publications;the news-stand includes a body, and the body is formed from a rotation-moulded shell of plastic; the body includes an aperture, and the aperture is so shaped and positioned in the news-stand as to be capable of providing access for the removal, through the aperture, of publications from within the compartment; the news-stand includes a door, and a hinge-pin, and the door is pivotable about the axis of the hinge-pin; the arrangement of the news-stand is such that the door is pivotable about the hinge-pin between a closed position in which the door closes off the aperture, and an open position in which a person can reach into the compartment, and can remove a publication therefrom through the aperture; the rotation-moulded shell is so configured as to form, as a first wall of the aperture, a first-fold of the rotation-moulded shell, and, as an opposite wall of the aperture, an opposite-fold of the rotation-moulded shell; the first-fold includes a first-fold-inner-wall, and a first-fold-outer-wall which is spaced from the first-fold-inner-wall; the opposite-fold includes an opposite-fold-inner-wall, and an opposite-fold-outer-wall which is spaced from the opposite-fold-inner-wall; the first-fold-inner-wall, the first-fold-outer-wall, the opposite-fold-inner-wall, and the opposite-fold-outer-wall, are formed with respective fold-hinge-pin-holes therein; a first element of the hinge-pin extends through the fold-hinge-pin-holes in the first-fold -inner-wall and the first-fold-outer-wall and straddles the space between the first-fold-inner-wall and the first-fold-outer-wall; an opposite element of the hinge-pin extends through the fold-hinge-pin-holes in the opposite-fold-inner-wall and the opposite-fold-outer-wall and straddles the space between the opposite-fold-inner-wall and the opposite-fold-outer-wall; the door includes a first-flange and an opposite-flange, having respective door-hinge-pin-holes therein; the first element of the hinge-pin extends through the door-hinge-pin-hole in the first-flange; and the opposite element of the hinge-pin extends through the door-hinge-pin-hole in the opposite-flange.