Patent ID: 7100791

Claim:
A trash container with a lid, said container comprising: front, side and back walls and an open top covered by said lid; a hinge connecting said lid to said container along a top of said back wall so that said lid opens from the front wall; said container having a latch bar on the front wall to be engaged by a mechanical lifting device when the container is inverted to dump contents of the container; a recess that opens from a bottom of the front wall of the container having openings on opposite sides of the recess in which the latch bar is mounted such that outer ends of the latch bar extend through the openings into an inside area of the container; and a clearance cut out portion in each side of said recess at a lower end thereof that accommodates with clearance the outer ends of the latch bar of another of said containers which is lower than said container when a plurality of said containers are stacked together in a nested stack, and further including at least one hinge stop flange on said container adjacent said hinge and at least one hinge stop flange on said lid engaging said container hinge stop flange when said lid is rotated from a closed position to an open position, at least one of said hinge stop flange on said container and said hinge stop flange on said lid being flexible, whereby said hinge stop flange on said lid slides past said hinge stop flange on said container when said lid is rotated from an initial assembled position of the lid on the container to the closed position the lid is prevented from rotating back to the initial assembled position by engagement of the outer end of the at least one hinge stop flange of the lid and the outer end of the at least one hinge stop flange of the container.