Patent ID: 7448530

Claim:
A laundry hamper for storing laundry items, comprising: a shallow box-shaped container for mounting on a door or wall, the container having a top, a bottom, and an open front, a door slidably mounted on the front of the container to close the open front, the door having a top and a bottom and a height less than the height of the front of the container, the door movable on the container between a lowered position where the bottom of the door is adjacent the bottom of the container and the top of the door is spaced from the top of the container to provide a top inlet opening to the interior of the container for depositing the laundry items and a raised position where the top of the door is adjacent the top of the container and the bottom of the door is spaced from the bottom of the container to provide a bottom outlet opening from the interior of the container for removing the laundry items, the outlet opening being closed when the inlet opening is open, and the inlet opening being closed when the outlet opening is open.