Patent ID: 8381936

Claim:
A laundry-sorting hamper device comprising: a top portion comprising: a plurality of horizontally-aligned top-loading box compartments, each of the box compartments comprising: an open top side; a closed bottom side; a front side; a rear side; a first side; a second side; an access door hingedly disposed on the front side, the access door proximal to the bottom side, the access door having a forward side and a top end; a handle disposed on the access door forward side; a sliding latch closure mechanism disposed on the front side proximal to the access door top end, the sliding latch closure mechanism releasably engaging the access door; a color code bar disposed on the front side proximal to the top side; a plurality of vertically aligned ventilation holes disposed in the front side; a rectangular fill indicator centrally disposed in the front side; a parallelepiped bottom portion disposed underlying the top portion, the bottom portion having an open front; wherein laundry is presorted when added to each of the plurality of compartments, said laundry retrievable from each compartment by means of the access door disposed in the front side of each compartment.