Abstract:
In at least one embodiment, a container includes an opening for the deposition of rubbish therein and a cleaning or disinfecting device configured to provide a cleaning or disinfecting fluid inside the container. The cleaning or disinfecting device includes a delivery device inside the container configured to deliver a dose of fluid after an inclination of the container and then returning the container to a normal position of use.

Description:
FIELD 
     The present disclosure concerns a device for disinfecting or cleaning of a household rubbish container and a method for disinfecting or cleaning such a container. 
     The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, containers for waste and, in particular, containers of relatively large size used in particular in properties in joint occupation and able to be taken up by rubbish collection vehicles for discharge thereof. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Currently, large size containers generally are substantially right-angled parallelepipedal in form and have a lid. The waste is simply introduced into the internal space of the container, which causes problems of cleanliness of these containers. Residual dirt is in particular found in the bottom of the containers due to discharges or refuse sticking to the bottom wall of the container. Inconveniencies relating to odour and cleanliness are thus posed. 
     The disinfecting of household rubbish containers in some applications is done by an operator manually, after the containers have been emptied of their waste. 
     This operation is a tedious task for the operator since this requires of him a significant handling of the containers and thereby requires a great deal of time for its execution. It is therefore usual to find that this type of work is not carried routinely after each collection of household rubbish. 
     The document WO-A-2010/146004 discloses a device for disinfecting a container for the removal of solid waste, said container being provided with a lid that is hinged at the rim of the opening so as to allow at least one rotation between a closed position and an open position obtained by the actuation of a user enabling him to insert bags of waste in the container. The device has at least one receptacle containing a disinfection product that is applied to the internal surface of the wall of the container. The receptacle is provided with at least one pump that emits a spray of said product by pressure applied to the button of said pump. Means are also provided that are connected to the lid of the container and are designed to produce a spray of the disinfectant product when the lid is closed following the actuation thereof by the user after the insertion of a bag of waste. 
     Though this document presents automatic actuation of the delivery of a cleaning and disinfecting fluid during a movement of opening and closing the lid by a device for dispensing maintenance fluid directly incorporated in the container, it does however have many drawbacks. 
     In this document, the distribution of fluid takes place at the opening and closing phases of the lid, that is to say very frequently and very often when the container is at least partially filled. Its efficacy is therefore low while using a large quantity of maintenance fluid. 
     In addition, the fluid-dispensing device is situated at the top part of the container since actuation thereof is linked to the lid. Consequently the dispensing of the fluid, moreover a simple spraying, is not effective for cleaning the bottom of the container, the sprayed fluid generally not arriving as far as the bottom of the container, especially when the latter is filled with refuse. 
     Finally, the reliability of such a spray system can be called into question. 
     Another system for delivering a disinfecting liquid is known from US-A-2010264168. This publication shows an actuator resting on the ground outside the container and the piston of which arms a part delivering liquid when the container is lifted. On descent, the piston retracts in contact with ground so as to discharge the liquid. Because of the bearing on the ground, the reliability and mechanical strength of the piston system is more than doubtful. Repeated movements of the container may cause multiple deliveries of liquid when this is not required. 
     SUMMARY 
     The problem at the basis of the disclosure is cleaning a household rubbish container effectively without requiring the aid of a cleaning device external to said container. 
     In some embodiments, there is provided according to the disclosure a rubbish container having an opening for the deposition of rubbish inside it and incorporating a cleaning or disinfecting device configured so as to provide the delivery of a cleaning or disinfecting fluid inside the container. In some embodiments, the cleaning or disinfecting device comprises means for delivering a dose of fluid inside the container configured to deliver the dose of fluid after an inclination of the container and then its return to the normal position of use. 
     The technical effect obtained is better cleaning or disinfecting of the container. As the spreading of the dose of washing or disinfecting fluid takes place after this discharge when the container is returned to its normal position of use, the container is then emptied of all its rubbish and the washing or disinfecting can take place directly on the bottom of the container. Thus all the fluid combined in a dose is allocated to the cleaning or disinfecting of said container and there is no longer any loss of fluid by contact with rubbish. 
     In addition, in some embodiments, the quantity of fluid contained by a dose is advantageously substantially always equivalent, which affords economy of fluid, a dose being calculated so as to represent the predetermined quantity necessary and sufficient for effective cleaning or disinfecting. 
     In some embodiments, the inclination of the container, which consists of a movement comprising a rotation of the container able to modify the angle made by its opening with respect to the horizontal, can be fixed so as to be greater than a threshold value in order to trigger the delivery of the product. In some embodiments, the threshold value can for example be at least 10° or at least 90° (which means that the product is delivered only after a phase of turning the container over). 
     In some embodiments, at least optionally any one of the following features is implemented:
         the delivery means comprise means for forming a dose of fluid inside the container and means for spreading said fluid in the container, the formation means being active when the container is inclined in the position of discharging the rubbish that it contains and the spreading means being active when the container has been returned to its normal position of use;   the means for forming a dose of fluid comprise a dosing element filled with a dose of fluid when the container is inclined in the discharge position. The use of a dosing element is a rapid and simple way of creating a dose of cleaning or disinfecting fluid as well as having, at each washing or disinfecting, an equivalent dose of fluid;   the cleaning or disinfecting device comprises a fluid reservoir, the dosing element being connected by a first pipe to said reservoir for taking off a quantity of fluid from said reservoir by gravity when the container is tilted, this quantity forming a dose of fluid, the dosing element also being connected to said reservoir by a second pipe providing an air intake between dosing element and reservoir. Such a use of a dosing element associated with a reservoir makes it possible to achieve the formation of a dose automatically when the container is tilted during unloading thereof, by simple means functioning according to the principle of communicating vessels;   the spreading means comprise a third pipe emerging from the dosing element for discharge of the dose of fluid with a view to spreading thereof in the container, this third pipe being directed towards the bottom part of the container when said container is in its normal position of use. Thus the spreading of the dose of fluid takes place automatically as soon as the container is returned to its normal position of use;   the cleaning or disinfecting device is inserted removably in a housing fixed towards the bottom part of the container when said container is in its normal position of use. This allows the extraction of the cleaning or disinfecting device in particular for filling its reservoir. The housing also has the advantage of protecting the device against miscellaneous dirt;   the housing comprises an orifice for discharging the dose of fluid in the container, this discharge orifice being oriented towards the bottom part of the container when said container is in its normal position of use. Thus the bottom of the container is preferentially treated;   the housing surrounds the cleaning or disinfecting device, the housing comprising a body for receiving said device and a removable lid covering said body. This makes it possible to completely surround the device in order to protect it while making it possible to remove the device easily from the housing in particular for recharging it with fluid;   the body and/or the removable lid does not have any sharp corner externally. Thus there is no risk of bursting bags of rubbish thrown into the container or retaining various elements thrown into the container;   the reception body of the housing is substantially in the form of a parallelepiped with a base and four walls, one of said walls being at least partially in abutment against the inside of the container. This is the form most suited to receiving a reservoir with a substantially similar shape, which is mainly the shape of the reservoir of the washing or disinfecting device;   the discharge orifice of the housing is disposed on the base of the body or on the bottom portion of one of the walls of said body. Thus the bottom of the container is effectively treated. The location of the discharge orifice on the bottom portion of a wall is advantageous because said orifice is liable to be soiled less than when it is disposed directly facing the bottom of the container, an accumulation of rubbish on this orifice then being possible;   the base of the body has a declivity directing the dose of fluid towards said discharge orifice. This allows discharge of all the fluid from the housing and reduces losses of fluid;   the lid has, at its part oriented towards the body, firstly, on one side of said part, at least one tongue entering a recess provided on the reception body and, secondly, on the body opposite said part, a means of locking the lid with respect to said body;   the locking means is composed of a locking lug inserted by pivoting in a locking notch provided in the reception body;   the lid comprises a passage enabling a user to have access to the locking means in order to effect a pivoting of said locking lug.       

     In at least one embodiment, a cleaning or disinfecting device is in particular suitable for equipping a rubbish container. 
     In at least one embodiment, it is advantageously on the internal wall of the container body that the device is situated. The latter is thus independent of any lid of the container. 
     In accordance with another embodiment, a method for cleaning or disinfecting such a household rubbish container is performed by means of a cleaning or disinfecting device internal to the container, this method comprising sequences for delivering a cleaning or disinfecting fluid in the interior of the container, this container being emptied of rubbish that it contains by tilting said container into a discharge position, characterised by the step of forming a dose of fluid inside the container when it is tilted into the rubbish-discharge position and the step of spreading the dose of fluid in the container when the container has been returned to its normal position of use. 
     In at least one embodiment, the step of forming a dose of fluid and the step of spreading said dose of fluid take place automatically respectively on putting into the discharge position and putting into the normal position of use. Thus making the step of forming a dose dependent on the step of tilting the container for discharging thereof just like the triggering of the step of spreading the dose formed does not require the addition of any particular element, for example a mechanical or electronic element. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES 
       Other features, aims and advantages of the present disclosure will emerge from a reading of the following detailed description and with regard to the accompanying drawings given by way of non-limitative example and in which: 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic representation of a plan view in perspective of a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure showing the interior of said container with the housing for the cleaning or disinfecting device, 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic representation of a side view of a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure showing in particular the position of the housing for the cleaning or disinfecting device in said container, this container then being in the position for discharging the rubbish that it contains, 
         FIG. 3  is a schematic representation of a front view in perspective of a cleaning or disinfecting device intended to be integrated in a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic representation of a perspective view from below of part of the cleaning or disinfecting device intended to be integrated in a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, this part being shown enlarged with respect to  FIG. 3 , 
         FIG. 5  is a schematic representation of a front view of a cleaning or disinfecting device intended to be integrated in a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, this device being shown in the tilted position in which the dosing element fills, 
         FIG. 6  is a schematic representation of a front view of a cleaning or disinfecting device intended to be integrated in a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, this device being shown returned to its normal position of use, in which position the cleaning or disinfecting fluid is discharged from the dosing element, 
         FIG. 7  is a schematic representation of a plan view of a housing integrating a cleaning or disinfecting device for a household rubbish container according the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 8  is a schematic representation of a front view in perspective of the top portion of a housing integrating a cleaning or disinfecting device for a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 9  is a schematic representation of a front view in perspective of the locking means of a housing integrating a cleaning or disinfecting device for a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, this  FIG. 9  being enlarged with respect to  FIG. 8 , the locking means being shown in section, 
         FIG. 10  is a schematic representation of a front view of the bottom portion of a housing integrating a cleaning or disinfecting device for a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, the orifice for spreading the cleaning or disinfecting fluid in the container being in particular visible in this figure, this  FIG. 10  being enlarged with respect to  FIG. 8 . 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Referring to  FIGS. 1 and 2 , the present disclosure concerns a container for the depositing of household rubbish. 
     Container  1  has a substantially parallelepipedal shape with lateral walls and a bottom  4  delimiting an internal space for receiving rubbish. In its normal position of use, which corresponds to the position of the container  1  for the reception of rubbish, the bottom  4  of the container  1  is close to the ground, the container  1  being movable by means of wheels  5  then resting on the ground. Though  FIG. 2  shows a single pair of wheels  5 , the container  1  can also be provided with two pairs of wheels  5 . 
     The container  1  has an opening  3  for the depositing of household rubbish in the interior thereof. This opening  3  is situated, in the normal position of use of the container  1  for receiving rubbish, at the top part of the container  1 . This opening  3  can be closed by a lid, not shown in the figures, this lid being pivotable between a position of closing the container  1  and the opening position in which the opening  3  is accessible to the users for depositing rubbish or for discharging rubbish that the contain  1  contains. 
     In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, the container  1  incorporates a cleaning or disinfecting device with sequences of delivering a maintenance fluid inside the container  1 . This device is shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , being placed inside the housing  6 , internal to the container  1 . This device and its housing  6  are situated close to the bottom  4  of the container  1  in order to clean said bottom  4  by spreading a cleaning or disinfecting liquid inside the container  1 . It is in fact the bottom  4  of the container  1  that is the most liable to be soiled by remains of rubbish not discharged from the container  1  and it is necessary to clean or disinfect this bottom  1  regularly and automatically. 
     To effect such cleaning or disinfecting, in some embodiments, it is preferably for the container  1  to be previously empty of any rubbish so that the bottom  4  of the container  1  is indeed accessible to the cleaning or disinfecting fluid. 
     This is one of the features that are proposed by the present disclosure with a cleaning or disinfecting device comprising means for forming a dose of fluid inside the container  1  and means for spreading said fluid in the container  1 , the formation means being active when the container  1  is tilted into the position of discharging the rubbish that it contains and the spreading means being active when the container  1  is returned to its normal position of use. Thus the cleaning or disinfecting takes place in a container  1  emptied of its rubbish as soon as the container  1  is returned to the normal position of use. 
     According to an alternative embodiment, the formation of the dose and the spreading thereof are both consecutive on the return to the normal position, but the tilting and repositioning movement is detected so as to control the delivery of the dose. For example, in some embodiments, a movement sensor system triggers a fluid dispenser (with a pump or the like) after these two movements. 
       FIG. 2  shows a container  1  in the position of discharging its rubbish. This discharge can take place by pouring the rubbish from the container  1  into a rubbish tipper truck. To do this, the container  1  is subjected to a rotation movement Fr, generally while being connected to the rubbish tipper truck by a device carried by said tipper truck and the rubbish that leaves the container  1  in the direction of discharge of the rubbish Fe falling by gravity into the tipper truck. This operation is also referred to as tipping over the container  1  with a view to discharge thereof. 
     As shown in  FIG. 2 , it is not necessary for the container  1  to be completely turned over with its bottom  4  then situated as the top part of the container  1  and the container  1  then extending substantially vertically. In some embodiments, it suffices for the container  1  to be sufficiently tilted for the rubbish to leave the container  1  by gravity and fall outside said container  1 . 
     For an effective cleaning or disinfecting of the bottom  4  of the container, in some embodiments, it is preferable to place the cleaning or disinfecting device close to the bottom. In  FIG. 1 , the housing  6  receiving the cleaning or disinfecting device is placed on a low portion of a lateral wall of the container  1  close to the bottom, substantially in a middle portion of said lateral wall. In  FIG. 2 , the housing  6 , drawn in broken lines, is situated on a low portion of a lateral wall of the container  1  close to the bottom  4  towards a bottom edge of the lateral wall not carrying a wheel  5 . 
     The positioning of the housing  6  receiving the cleaning or disinfecting device may be any positioning that makes it possible to obtain an action on the bottom  4  of the container  1  effective for spreading concerning in particular a large part of the bottom  4 . 
     The cleaning or disinfecting device will now be described according to one embodiment with regard to  FIGS. 3 to 6 . 
     In these figures, the cleaning or disinfecting device  2  has a dosing element  8  filled with a dose of fluid when said container is tilted for discharging the rubbish out of the container, as was shown in  FIG. 2 . The means for forming a dose of fluid inside the container  1  according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure comprise this dosing element  8 . Thus, during this discharge of rubbish, a predetermined quantity, in some embodiments a sufficient or necessary quantity, for the cleaning or disinfecting of the container  1  is formed by accumulation in the dosing element  8 . 
     The cleaning or disinfecting device  2  comprises a reservoir  7  of cleaning or disinfecting fluid containing sufficient fluid for effecting several doses of fluid. This reservoir  7  comprises a filling plug  12  at its top end in a normal position of use. A neck  13  is provided between the plug  12  and the reservoir  7 . The dosing element  8  is disposed substantially above the reservoir  7  when the latter is in the normal position of use, that is to say with its plug  12  pointing upwards. The dosing element  8  is connected by a first pipe  11  to said reservoir  7 , by means of its neck  13 . 
     This first pipe  11  serves to take off from the reservoir  7  a quantity of fluid to form a dose of fluid then contained and stored in the dosing element  8 . This taking off is effected by gravity when the container is tilted for discharge thereof. To do this, the cleaning or disinfecting device  2  is provided with a second pipe  9  providing an air intake between the dosing element  8  and the reservoir  7 . This second pipe  9  extends from the bottom part of the reservoir to the dosing element  8 , in some embodiments advantageously emerging in said dosing element  8  on the side opposite to the side on which the first pipe  11  emerges. 
     The functioning of the cleaning or disinfection device  2  is as follows. It is broken down into a step of forming a dose of fluid in the dosing element  8  when the container is tilted for discharging the waste contained in it and by the spreading of said dose on the bottom of the container when the container is returned to its normal position of use. In some embodiments, this is very advantageous because there is now no or very little rubbish in the container, and cleaning or disinfecting thereof can then take place very effectively, the bottom of the container then being accessible to the cleaning or disinfecting fluid. 
     When the container is tilted for discharge thereof, the cleaning or disinfecting device  2 , which is situated in a housing itself fixed to the container, is tilted accordingly. The cleaning or disinfecting device  2  is thus in the inclined position shown in  FIG. 5  with the neck  13  of the reservoir  7  being the lowest part of the device  2 . The dosing element  8 , which is situated close to the neck  13  of the reservoir  7 , then fills with a quantity of cleaning or disinfecting fluid leaving the reservoir  7  through the first pipe  11  between dosing element  8  and reservoir  7 . 
     This quantity is to form a cleaning dose then stored in the dosing element  8 . The dose is formed by gravity according to the communicating-vessels principle by means of the second pipe  9  serving as an air intake and connecting the dosing element  8  to the reservoir  7  as previously mentioned. This is because the level of fluid  14  in the reservoir  7  extends substantially horizontally in this tilted position of the device  2  and is on the same horizontal line as the level of fluid in the second pipe  9 , which enables the dosing element  8  to be filled. 
     The second operating step of the cleaning or disinfecting device  2  is essentially illustrated by  FIG. 6 . This second step concerns the discharge of the dose of fluid out of the dosing element  8 . The dosing element  8  comprises a third pipe  10  for discharge of the dose of fluid with a view to spreading thereof in the container, this third pipe  10  being directed towards the bottom part of the container when said container is in its normal position of use. The means of spreading said fluid in the container according to the present disclosure comprises this third pipe  10 . These spreading means are for example supplemented by the means for discharging or directing fluid present in the housing, as will be seen subsequently. 
     After discharge of the rubbish from the container, during which the filling of the dosing element  8  takes place, the container is returned to the normal position of use and the cleaning or disinfecting device once again occupies a substantially vertical position in its housing in the container, as shown in  FIG. 6 . The dosing element  8 , which is filled with cleaning or disinfecting fluid, is emptied of its fluid through the third discharge pipe  10 , said pipe  10  being directed towards the bottom of the device  2  whereas it was directed upwards at the previous step illustrated in  FIG. 5 . 
     Thus a method for cleaning or disinfecting a household rubbish container according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure by the use of a cleaning or disinfecting device  2  internal to the container, this method comprising sequences of delivery of a cleaning or disinfecting fluid inside the container, this container being emptied of the rubbish that it contains by tilting of said container into a discharge position, is characterised by the step of forming a dose of fluid inside the container when it is tilted into the rubbish-discharge position and the step of spreading the dose of fluid in the container when the container has been returned to its normal position of use. 
     Advantageously, in the method in accordance with one or more embodiments, the step of forming a dose of fluid and the step of spreading said dose of fluid take place automatically respectively during the putting into the discharge position or the putting into the normal position of use. The normal position of use advantageously corresponds to a position in which the bottom of the container  1  is substantially parallel to the ground or to a position where the lateral walls of the container have a substantially vertical principal direction. 
     The fluid flows into the third discharge pipe  10  in the direction of discharge of the fluid Ff and leaves through the orifice  10   a  terminating the third discharge pipe  10 , advantageously close to the connection of the second pipe  9  with the reservoir in some embodiments, but this is not obligatory. Configuration of orifice  10   a  is also particularly clearly visible in  FIG. 4 . 
     The features of the housing  6  of the cleaning or disinfecting device will now be explained with regard to  FIGS. 7 to 10 . 
     In  FIG. 7 , the cleaning or disinfecting device, of which the reservoir  7 , the dosing element  8 , the first pipe  11 , the plug  12  and the second pipe  9  covering the third pipe at a distance can be seen, is removably inserted in a housing  15  fixed towards the bottom part of the container  1  when the latter is in its normal position of use so that the cleaning or disinfecting fluid is spread over the bottom of this container  1 . This housing  15  comprises a reception body  15   a  at least partially surrounding the cleaning or disinfecting device. This housing  15  also comprises a removable lid covering said body  15   a . In  FIG. 7  only the reception body  15   a  is visible. 
     The reception body  15   a  of the housing  15  is substantially in the form of a parallelepiped with a base  15   b  and for lateral faces. One of said lateral faces of the body  15   a  forms a lateral wall  15   c  in abutment against the inside of the container  1 , this at least partially. This abutment takes place against a lateral wall of the container  1 . If the edges of the lateral wall in abutment  15   c  are straight, the other edges of the lateral walls are rounded so as not to present any sharp corner that could burst plastic bags filled with rubbish introduced into the container  1 . The housing  15  has a shape not facilitating the attachment of rubbish on its external part. This will in particular be the case with its lid, as will be described with regard to  FIG. 8 . 
     The reception body  15   a  of the housing  15  is adapted to the cleaning or disinfecting device so that the latter occupies substantially all the space inside this body  15   a . In  FIG. 7 , the reception body  15   a  has substantially a rectangular cross section with a longitudinal wall of said body  15   a  as the wall  15   c  in abutment against the inside of the container  1 . The lateral wall of the reservoir  7  not carrying the second pipe  9  is substantially opposite and at a short distance from a lateral wall of the body  15   a  of the housing  15  while the second pipe  9  is situated opposite and at a short distance from the opposite lateral wall of the body  15   a . The other front and rear walls of the reservoir  7  are situated opposite and at a short distance from an associated wall of the reception body  15   a . Thus the cleaning or disinfecting device can move only slightly in the body  15   a  of the housing  15 . 
     To increase the holding of the cleaning of the disinfecting device in the body  15   a , fixing ribs  24  are provided on the inside of each lateral or longitudinal wall of the body  15   a , limiting further the movement of the device with respect to the wall of the body  15   a  that carries them. 
     In at least one embodiment, one of the walls of the cleaning or disinfecting device carries a protrusion  24   a , for example in the form of suitable to be inserted between two fixing ribs  24  carried internally by a wall of the body  15   a . In some embodiments, it is preferred that this be the lateral wall of the reservoir  7  opposite to the wall carrying the second pipe  9  that carries this protrusion. 
     In the normal position of use, the cleaning or disinfecting device is introduced through the top in the body  15   a  of the housing  15 , by making said device descend in said body  15   a . In order to avoid putting the device in an reversed position in the body  15   a  of the housing  15 , that is to say a position with a pivoting of 180° of the device about a vertical axis, in at least one embodiment, at least one positive-location rib  25  is provided inside the body  15   a  on at least one of its walls. 
     Such a positive-location rib  25  extends towards the inside of the body  15   a  and is disposed on the inside of the wall of the body  15  which the lateral wall of the reservoir  7  carrying the second pipe  9  of the device is opposite, this positive-location rib  25  not being facing said pipe but offset with respect to it. This is because empty spaces exist inside the body  15   a  of the housing  15  on each side of the second pipe  9 , these spaces being able to receive said rib  25 . On the other hand, this positive-location rib forms a stop when the cleaning or disinfecting device is introduced in the reverse position with facing the opposite side of the reservoir  7  not carrying the second pipe  9 , such a side not having any empty spaces. Thus the insertion of the device in the reverse position in the reception body  15   a  is made impossible. 
     The base  15   b  of the reception body  15   a  of the housing  15  comprises an orifice  16  for discharging the dose of fluid into the container  1 , and more particularly towards the bottom thereof. In some embodiments, this discharge orifice  16  is therefore oriented towards the bottom part of the container  1  when said container  1  is in its normal position of use. This discharge orifice  16  is situated facing and below the outlet orifice of the third pipe, not visible in  FIG. 7  and serving for discharging fluid out of the cleaning or disinfecting device. 
     In some embodiments, the discharge orifice  16  can also be situated on a lower portion of a wall of the body  15   a  of the housing  15 . This is because such a lower portion of a wall of the body  15  is less susceptible to be soiled by deposits of rubbish, which is an obstacle to the spreading of the clearing or disinfecting fluid out of the housing  15 . 
       FIG. 8  shows a lid  17  fitting on top of the reception body  15   a  of the housing  15 . This lid  17  is advantageously removable so that the cleaning or disinfecting device is removed from the housing  15  in particular to fill the reservoir  7  of this device once again. 
     In some embodiments, the lid  17  does not have externally any sharp corner for the reasons mentioned above in consideration of the reception body  15   a  of the housing  15 . The base of the lid  17  corresponds to the opening at the top part of the body  15   a  while having the same cross section, which has a rectangular cross section in some embodiments. 
     In  FIG. 8 , the lid  17  has its highest part in the normal position of use of the container  1  on its wall in abutment against the wall of the container  1 , a wall that extends the wall  15   c  of the body  15   a . In the direction of its width, the lid  17  has an inclined portion  17   a  approaching the body  15   a  and not having externally any sharp corner. 
     For fixing thereof removably to the reception body  15   a  of the housing  15 , the lid  17  has, at its part oriented towards the body, firstly, on one side of said part, at least one lug  18  entering a recess  18   a  provided on the reception body  15   a  and, secondly, on the side opposite said first part, a means  19  for locking the lid  17  with respect to said body  15   a.    
     A passage  20  is formed in the inclined portion  17   a  of the lid  17  in order to allow access to the user for locking or unlocking the locking means  19 , in particular by means of a suitable tool. 
     This locking means  19  is particularly clearly visible in  FIG. 9 . In this figure, the locking means  19  is composed of a locking lug  22  that can be introduced into a locking notch  23  present in the facing part of the reception body  15   a  when said lug is pivoted and, in some embodiments, in a plane parallel to the plane of the top opening of the reception body  15   a . The pivoting is effected by the user by action of a means actuated by said user on a head  21  carried by the locking means  19 , this head extending along the pivot axis of the lug  22 . For example, without this being limitative, the head  21  may be in the form of a triangle or a square and actuated by a corresponding tool. 
       FIG. 10  shows the lower portion of a housing integrating a cleaning or disinfecting device for a household rubbish container according to the present disclosure. 
     In this figure there is visible the orifice  10   a  of the third pipe  10  discharging fluid from the reservoir  7  after a quantity of cleaning or disinfecting fluid has previously been dosed in the dosing element. This orifice  10   a  is substantially above a curved connecting part connecting the second pipe  9  to the lower part of the reservoir  7 . The reception body  15   a  of the housing  15  has, on its base  15   b , a discharge orifice  16  for spreading cleaning or disinfecting fluid in the container and in particular on the bottom thereof. 
     In  FIG. 10 , the discharge orifice  16  is situated directly below the orifice  10   a  of the third pipe  10 . Thus the cleaning or disinfecting fluid can flow more or less directly from the third pipe  10  to the container. In some embodiments, a certain quantity of fluid is able to flow inside the reception body  15   a  of the housing  15  and in particular on its base  15   b , and it is thus preferably to provide a declivity on this base  15   b , directing the dose of fluid spread towards said orifice  16 . This is obtained by slopes at the bottom  26  on each side of the discharge orifice  16  of the housing  15 , the inclination of which is oriented towards the discharge orifice  16 , these slopes at the bottom  26  conducting the fluid towards the orifice  16 . Thus all the fluid of a dose spread in the housing  15  is discharged from the housing  15  into the container. 
     Outside the housing  15 , close to the discharge orifice  16 , there may be an auxiliary device for enabling the fluid to be spread over the entire surface of the bottom of the container but this is not at all obligatory. For example, this device may be composed of a tube having multiple perforations through which the fluid flows towards the bottom of the container. 
     The invention is not limited to the embodiments described but extends to any embodiment in accordance with its spirit.