Patent ID: 6857538

Claim:
A cover assembly includes a ring mounted on a garbage bin, a cover mounted on the ring and a slow pivot device for slowly pivoting the cover relative to the ring from an open position to a closed position, with the slow pivot device including at least one slow pivot element, with the at least one slow pivot element including a first tube, a spring, and a first holder, with the first tube being rotatably mounted to one of the ring and the cover about an axis, with the spring connected between the first tube and the one of the ring and the cover, with rotation of the one of the ring and the cover relative to the first tube exerting torque on the spring to slow movement of the cover form the open position to the closed position, with the first tube having an end, with the first holder formed on the other of the ring and the cover, with the first holder having a slit, with the end of the first tube removably and replaceably received radially to the axis into the slit of the first holder, with the end being held in a nonrotational manner relative to the first holder by the slit of the first holder.