Patent Publication Number: US-2019177084-A1

Title: Mesh Lid Assembly

Description:
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     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     (1) Field of the Invention 
     (2) Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98 
     The disclosure and prior art relates to lid devices and more particularly pertains to a new lid device for retaining garbage in a garbage container. 
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a screen that may be selectively positioned over a top end of a garbage container. The screen is comprised of a deformable material to conform to a shape of the garbage container. A fastener is coupled to the screen and the fastener is selectively manipulated. The fastener selectively collapses the screen around the garbage container to retain the screen on the garbage container. 
     There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto. 
     The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING(S) 
       The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein: 
         FIG. 1  is a top perspective view of a mesh lid assembly according to an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  is a top view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 3  is a bottom phantom view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  is a perspective in-use view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 5  is a cross sectional view taken along line  5 - 5  of  FIG. 3  of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to  FIGS. 1 through 5  thereof, a new lid device embodying the principles and concepts of an embodiment of the disclosure and generally designated by the reference numeral  10  will be described. 
     As best illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 5 , the mesh lid assembly  10  generally comprises a screen  12  that may be selectively positioned over a top end  14  of a garbage container  16 . The garbage container  16  may be a recycling can, a garbage can and any other type of garbage container  16 . The screen  12  is comprised of a deformable material such as mesh or the like. Thus, the screen  12  may conform to a shape of the garbage container  16 . The screen  12  has a peripheral edge  18  and the peripheral edge  18  is continuous such that the screen  12  has a disk shape. Moreover, the screen  12  may have a diameter ranging between approximately 1.0 m and 1.5 m thereby accommodating a variety of garbage container  16  sizes. 
     A fastener  20  is coupled to the screen  12  and the fastener  20  selectively collapses the screen  12  around the garbage container  16  to retain the screen  12  on the garbage container  16 . The fastener  20  comprises a tube  22  that is coupled to the peripheral edge  18  of the screen  12 . The tube  22  is coextensive with the peripheral edge  18 . The tube  22  has an outer wall  24  and the outer wall  24  has an aperture  26  extending into an interior of the tube  22 . 
     A rope  28  is provided and the rope  28  is slidably positioned in the tube  22 . The rope  28  may be continuous such that the rope  28  forms a closed loop. The rope  28  extends outwardly through the aperture  26  thereby faciltiating the rope  28  to be selectively manipulated. The rope  28  decreases a diameter of the tube  22  when the rope  28  is urged outwardly from the tube  22 . In this way the peripheral edge  18  of the screen  12  is selectively tightened around the garbage container  16 . Additionally, the rope  28  may be comprised of a resiliently stretchable material such as bungee cord or the like for tightening around the garbage container  16 . 
     A clasp  30  is provided and has the rope  28  slidably extends through the clasp  30 . The clasp  30  frictionally engages the rope  28  at a selected point along the rope  28 . Moreover, the clasp  30  is positioned outside of the tube  22  such that the clasp  30  retains the tube  22  at a selected diameter when the rope  28  is tightened. The clasp  30  frictionally disengages the rope  28  when the clasp  30  is manipulated to loosen the rope  28 . The clasp  30  may be a mechanical rope  28  clasp  30  or the like. 
     In use, the screen  12  is positioned over the top end  14  of the garbage container  16  to cover garbage in the garbage container  16 . The peripheral edge  18  of the screen  12  is manipulated to extend fully around the garbage container  16 . The rope  28  is tightened to tighten the tube  22  around the garbage container  16  and the clasp  30  is slid against the tube  22 . In this way the screen  12  is retained on the garbage container  16  to inhibit the garbage in the garbage container  16  from exiting the garbage container  16 . The clasp  30  is manipulated to loosen the rope  28  and the screen  12  is removed from the garbage container  16  to empty the garbage container  16 . 
     With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure. 
     Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.