Patent ID: 7077364

Claim:
A material-receptacle hanger system comprising: a base frame; a channeling-panel support structure depending from the base frame and being adapted for rearward and forward reciprocating motion with respect to the base frame along a reciprocation axis between a rearwardmost retracted position and a forwardmost extended position; front and rear material-channeling panels pivotably attached to the channeling-panel support structure, each channeling panel being pivotable about a panel pivot axis that extends along an axis extending orthogonal to the reciprocation axis and including an inner face, an outer face, a base edge, a distal edge opposite the base edge, and left and right edges, the base edge being the edge, as between the base and distal edges, that is closer to the panel pivot axis about which that channeling panel pivots; and at least one receptacle-supporting linkage member pivotably depending from at least one of the front and rear material-channeling panels, wherein each of the front and rear channeling panels is pivotable, independently of the other channeling panel, between a collapsed position in which the panel extends along, but not necessarily parallel to, a horizontal plane and a deployed position in which the channeling panel extends relatively vertically with the distal edge of the channeling panel being disposed below the base edge and below the channeling-panel support structure, the front and rear panel pivot axes being non-coaxial and spaced apart such that, at least when the front and rear channeling panels are in deployed positions, there exists between the base edges of the front and rear channeling panels an open material acceptance region through which material can descend to a predetermined location below the acceptance region.