E-Z out mail tray

Abstract

This invention is a simple, inexpensive, damage resistant, compact tray for use in rural type mailboxes to facilitate an improved, safer and easier manner in posting and receiving mail. It is designed with five major additions to the arts of existing mail tray patents: 1. The nature of this invention is specifically designed for mass production to result in an inexpensive tray available to peoples of all income brackets. 2. It is also designed for damage control keeping incoming and outgoing mail free from damage, with emphasis on water damage. 3. It is designed to allow mail receipiants ease of access when approaching in an automobile. 4. Multiple materials may be used in its construction, all working equally well. 5. All of the necessary arts found in the various inventions of this nature have been consolidated in this invention.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The need for a more economical, more efficient, more simple and easier to use mail tray comes loud and clear from the millions who use rural type mailboxes and this is the background and cause of this invention. [0002] There is existing at this date, Apr. 6, 2004, over thirty-three million such mail boxes (33,314,305), in the United States alone, one of these is mine and a quick calculation using an estimated mail recipient checking mail twenty-five times a month reveals visits to rural mail boxes in the United States to be over six hundred and sixty million per month. [0003] Prior art incorporated in mailbox inserts, which are known and documented, individually, fail to include all of the problems involved with the handling of mail in and out of rural mailboxes. U.S. Pat. Nos., 4,714,192, Harlow, 4,753,385, Phipps, 4,896,827, Economou. 5,271,55. Mayer. [0004] This invention, named, E Z Out Mail Tray, incorporates and solves all of the prior arts n...

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Benefits of technology

[0019] We also noted no importance to the fact that a tray, properly constructed, would allow the mail recipient to stop their car farther from the mailbox, thus avoiding damage to mail box and car. This is a very important factor; especially as pertains to the elderly whose driving skills may have waned.

[0021] This invention will solve many problems that exist regarding rural mail with a simple, economical, enduring attachment.

Problems solved by technology

Prior art incorporated in mailbox inserts, which are known and documented, individually, fail to include all of the problems involved with the handling of mail in and out of rural mailboxes.

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