BAG WITH REINFORCED WALLS

Abstract

A bag with reinforced walls has four walls formed into a rectangular prismatic shape with a closed bottom. Each wall has a flap opposite the bottom of a rectangular shape. A flap has less width than a wall. Upon each flap is a first strip and upon each wall is a second strip where the first and second strips mutually align. During use, each flap is folded over a frame and the strips mutually engage. Each wall merges with two adjacent walls upon a fold line. Where the flaps of adjacent walls adjoin, each wall and each flap has a reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer extends partially along the flap and partially down the wall. The reinforcing layer has a generally narrow and elongated shape.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This non-provisional application claims priority to the pending provisional application 61/858,924 filed on Jul. 26, 2013 and all of which are owned by the same inventor.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The bag with reinforced walls generally relates to waste bag and more specifically to a reinforced bag suspended from a frame on a riding mower. The bag of the invention has features to withstand suspension forces and weight of contents in the bag on a moving riding mower.

Early on, people lived in the countryside and gathered in cities in recent centuries. The cities became crowded and people sought more room, especially after World War II. With the dispersal of people from city centers to suburbs, people own more and more houses with lawns. In the last century, people have developed lawns in suburban settings which has followed the deployment of irrigation on a large scale into agriculture. In olden days, a lawn represented land taken out of agricultural production thus, a lawn indicated a well off landowner. In present times, lawns generally come with homes as an effect of zoning for single family detached homes. Detaching of homes by family spaces apart houses leaving room for lawns. Lawns generally have various grasses as the predominant plant and adjacent trees, shrubs, and other horticultural plantings.

Grass does grow and owners of lawns must mow, or arrange for mowing, of lawns to keep the grass in check. Doing so keeps the lawn owner in compliance with zoning regulations and on the good side with neighbors. Some owners mow their own lawn with a push mower. Such mowers work well for lawn sizes under ½ acre as a person can walk such a size before tiring. Push mowers have side discharge capability but also a connecting bag for removing clippings. Owners generally collect clippings to avoid the accumulation of thatch which suffocates a lawn.

For larger lawns and owners who want a lawn cut fast, manufacturers have provided riding mowers. These mowers have various horsepower engines and various widths. A riding mower generally has one seat for one operator and the operator steers the mower with a steering wheel. A riding mower generally has a deck above the spinning blades, a seat upon the deck, an engine behind the seat and above the rear axle, and controls ahead of the seat operatively connected to the front axle or front wheels. The deck has provisions for a chute that extends along side the deck past the operator to a head, or top cover, behind the operator. The top cover allows for connecting bags to the chute for receiving grass clippings and other debris.

Also available for larger lawns, manufacturers have developed small scale tractors. The tractors have a forward mounted engine connected to a transmission delivering power to a rear axle. A deck with mowing blades suspends below the transmission between the rear axle and the front axle. This deck also has provision for a chute connected to a top cover for the collection of grass clippings and other debris.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART

For many years, owners of lawns would dump their clippings at a convenient location or bag the clippings for disposal with ordinary trash. In the last fifteen years, environmental regulations and landfill sizes have curtailed the items allowed into ordinary trash. Presently, grass clippings and other yard debris is placed into degradable bags and then composted. Placing grass clippings from a grass catcher or head into a bag adds one more step to a lawn owner cutting his lawn. Lawn owners also seek to avoid spilling grass clippings.

The patent publication to Stevens, No. 2007/0071365, shows a biodegradable lawnmower bag with a drawstring cinch top.

The patent to Toporski U.S. Pat. No. 7,806,593 provides a refuse bag with removal of entrained air through perforations in a wall.

The patent publication to Zhao, No. 2005/0025397, shows a disposable bag with air permeability exceeding 300 c.f.m.

The patent to Mulle U.S. Pat. No. 6,367,747 provides a collapsible insert for a yard bag that stiffens the bag for filling.

The patent to Collins U.S. Pat. No. 6,151,875 provides a grass catcher insert with a V shaped sealed bottom and an air permeable construction.

The patent to Pitt U.S. Pat. No. 5,564,265 describes a grass catcher insert for a lawn mower. This insert has air permeable upon a frame.

The patent to Amano U.S. Pat. No. 4,589,251 illustrates a grass bag attachment for a lawn tractor. This attachment has two brackets upon a post with the brackets on the tractor chassis.

The patent to Beugin U.S. Pat. No. 4,006,928 shows a lawn bag caddy with a frame that holds a lawn bag open but when the bag rests horizontally upon the ground.

The present invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a lawn bag with reinforced walls that utilizes select slits forming flaps and reinforcement of the bag adjacent to the flaps. The flaps then fold over a frame and secure to the bag utilizing an adhesive.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Generally, the bag with reinforced walls has four walls formed into a rectangular prismatic shape with a closed bottom. Each wall has a flap opposite the bottom of a rectangular shape. Upon each flap is a first strip and upon each wall is a second strip where the first and second strips mutually align. During use, each flap is folded over a frame and the strips mutually engage. Each wall merges with two adjacent walls upon a fold line. Where the flaps of adjacent walls adjoin, each wall and each flap has a reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer extends partially along the flap and partially down the wall. The reinforcing layer has a generally narrow and elongated shape.

There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. The present invention also includes parallel fold lines, a tab that engages two walls and secures the invention in its rectangular shaped cross section, and releasable adhesive. Additional features of the invention will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims attached.

Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon a reading of the following detailed description of the presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiment of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Before explaining the current embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.

One object of the present invention is to provide a bag with reinforced walls that secures itself to a frame of a grass catcher of a riding mower.

Another object is to provide such a bag with reinforced walls that prevents tearing of flaps and seams.

Another object is to provide such a bag with reinforced walls that does not mechanically connect to the grass catcher frame.

Another object is to provide such a bag with reinforced walls that stands by itself.

Another object is to provide such a bag with reinforced walls that is manufactured at a price so the purchasing consumers, contractors, home centers, hardware stores, and other sales venues can readily purchase or offer the bag for sale.

These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty that characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In referring to the drawings,

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of the invention before installation;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a side view of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the invention in flat form;

FIG. 6 is an opposite plan view of the invention, opposite that of FIG. 5; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the invention showing its flaps extended.

The same reference numerals refer to the same parts throughout the various figures.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The present invention overcomes the prior art limitations by providing a bag with reinforced walls. For various reasons, owners of lawns collect clippings and debris from them. Owners use various mowers that have chutes exiting from the deck of the mower. The chutes discharge their air flow, and debris in the air flow, through a top cover. The top cover has an inverted sink like shape that spans a frame. The frame receives two bags of the present invention, 1. The bags generally suspend beneath the frame and extend below the top cover as shown. The frame arranges the bags in a side by side manner with one bag generally behind each wheel upon the rear axle of the mower.

To install bags in the frame or to remove loaded bags for disposal, an operator lifts the top cover. The top cover has an exhaust that delivers air flow and debris into the spaces of the top cover. The debris then drops by gravity into the bags within a frame. The frame generally has an elongated rectangular shape with a central cross member. The frame divides itself into two equally wide sections. Into each portion, an operator places a bag of the invention. Each bag has four flaps as at 7 extending from walls as at 2. Each flap folds over the frame so that only portions of the frame remain visible. The bags then receive the debris until full.

Though this description has referred to bags upon mowers, the bags of the invention may also see application in grocery stores, home centers, and other locations with taller product.

Turning to FIG. 1, the invention 1 has four walls 2, generally of equal width and arranged in a rectangular cross section, here shown as square. Preferably the walls have equal width leading to a square cross section. Each wall has two spaced apart and mutually parallel longitudinal edges as at 3. Beneath the walls, the invention has a bottom 4 generally perpendicular to the walls and to the longitudinal edges. Opposite the bottom, the invention is generally open so an operator may install it upon a frame as previously described and so it receives debris deposited therein. The longitudinal edges denote the merging on one wall 2 into an adjacent wall 2. The longitudinal edges form upon folding the material of the invention at a first fold 5. The first fold 5 is generally perpendicular to the bottom and extends for most of the height of the invention. Spaced away from the bottom and generally parallel to the bottom but perpendicular to the first fold, each wall has a second fold 6. The second fold extends across each wall and separates the wall from a flap 7. The flap is generally rectangular in shape and has a width, that is, distance away from the second fold of at least half the width of a wall. The flap pivots upon the second fold and has two mutually parallel and spaced apart lateral ends, 8. The lateral ends move freely and do not connect or merge with counterpart lateral ends on an adjacent flap.

Proximate the second folds 6 on each wall 2, the invention has a band of reinforcing as at 9. The reinforcing band extends downwardly from the second fold, that is, towards the bottom 4 for a portion of the length of the first fold 5. The reinforcing band reaches downward approximately from about one half of the width of the flap to the width of the flap. Above the second fold, that is, away from the bottom, the reinforcing band splits partially along its length as at 9a. The reinforcing band has portions of itself upon two adjacent flaps 7, 7′. The reinforcing band stiffens and strengthens the intersection of the first fold and the second fold for each wall 2. Doing so, limits the propagation of tears and other failures from a common stress point.

Having reinforced the first fold and the second fold at a key location, the invention also provides for a connection of itself to a frame upon a mower. Each flap has a first strip 10 of rectangular planar shape. The first strip is spaced away from the second fold but inside of an upper edge 7a of the flap. The first strip is also spaced inwardly from the lateral ends 8 of a flap. Below the second fold 6, each wall has a second strip 11 also of rectangular planer shape. The second strip has a spacing below the second fold to cooperate with the first strip upon folding the flap over the frame and upon the wall. The first strip and the second strip include cooperating adhesives, typically peel and stick or pressure sensitive, hook and look fasteners, wax strips, magnetic layers, and the like. As previously described, the flaps 7 fold outwardly and downwardly over a frame and upon the walls 2.

The bag of the invention 1 has its bottom 4 shown in FIG. 2. The bottom forms from at least two base flaps 12 joined upon a common seam 13. The base flaps have a generally rectangular shape and extend from walls as later shown in FIGS. 5, 7. The base flaps extend to at least half of the width of a wall. The seam generally spans between two opposite walls and preferably is closed by a waterproof adhesive. Closure of two base flaps occurs by preferably an adhesive, or alternatively an locking mechanical joint.

Opposite the bottom 4, FIG. 3 shows a top view of the invention. An operator would see this before installing a bag into a frame. The bag 1 has its four flaps 7 arranged in square like shape with the lateral ends 8 of adjacent flaps abutting. On the lower portion of the lateral ends, each flap has reinforcing band as at 9a. The reinforcing band continues below the second fold partially along adjacent walls. The walls then extend to the bottom 4, that is, into the plane of the figure. The walls then terminate with at least two base flaps 12 that extend inwardly to the seam 13 forming the bottom that retains the debris within the bag during its usage.

From the side, FIG. 4 has a bag 1 of the invention. The bag is generally upright with the bottom 4 towards the lower portion of this figure. From the bottom, the wall 2 extends upwardly with its two longitudinal edges 3 at the first folds 5. Spaced apart from the bottom and generally parallel to it, the wall has its second fold 6. Above the second fold, the flap 7 extends in its rectangular shape, perpendicular to the shape of the wall. The flap has its upper edge 7a spaced away and mutually parallel to the second fold. Perpendicular to the upper edge, the flap has its lateral ends 8 also mutually parallel and spaced away. Each lateral end has a portion as at 9a of the reinforcing band and the reinforcing band 9 extends partially along the longitudinal edge 3. In this figure, the reinforcing band has its location upon the exterior or outer surface of the invention, as also shown in FIG. 5. The flap also has the first strip 10, here shown as rectangular and parallel to the upper edge. The strip is slightly below the upper edge. The wall has the second strip 11 that cooperates with the first strip. The second strip is spaced below the second fold 6 the same distance as the first strip is spaced above it so the two strips cooperatively engage when folded as in FIGS. 1, 2. The longitudinal edge has a length from about one foot to about six feet.

The bag 1 of the invention begins in flat form as shown in FIG. 5 with an outer surface of the bag's walls visible in this figure. A user sees the outer surface upon opening the bag 1 fully and others see the outer surface when a user places a full bag at the curb for collection. The bag has its four walls 2 mutually formed upon a generally rectangular sheet of material, preferably double layered kraft paper. From the left of this figure, the bag has its first wall 2 joined to the second wall 2 along the first fold line 5 as shown. The first fold line extends along line a-a as shown. The second wall 2 joins to the third wall 2 and the third wall 2 joins to the fourth wall 2′ also upon fold lines 5 along lines a-a as shown. These fold lines 5 are mutually parallel. Opposite the fold line 5 upon the fourth wall 2′, the fourth wall, to the right in this figure, has a tab 14. The tab is generally slender and rectangular as it extends along the length of the fourth wall. The tab allows for joining of the fourth wall back to the first wall, generally opposite the first fold 5 in the first wall to form the bag into its rectangular prismatic shape as previously shown. The tab has its own fold line along line c-b as at 15.

Each wall has its base flap 12 generally beneath the wall as shown and of a rectangular shape. The rectangular shape has a longitudinal axis and a perpendicular lateral axis shorter than the longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis of the base flap 12 is generally perpendicular to the fold lines 5. Each base flap has a fold line 16 along line c-c as shown. Points c are slightly away from points a as shown so that each base flap separates from adjacent base flaps. The base flaps overlap and join upon the seam 13 as previously shown to close the bottom 4 of the bag 1 when in its rectangular prismatic shape. The fold lines 16 each have a length from about 12 inches to about 18 inches. Preferably, the fold lines each have the same length which leads to a square cross section of the bag. Alternatively, the fold lines 16 have alternating lengths so that the cross section of the bag appears rectangular.

Spaced away but mutually parallel to the fold lines 16 of the base flaps, each wall has its flap 7 upon each second fold 6. Each second fold is along line b-b as shown. Points b are slightly away from points a as shown so that each flap separates from adjacent flaps. The points b of the flaps 7 may have a different spacing from points a than the points c of the base flaps 12. The different spacing allows for the flaps 7 to grasp the frame of a mower while the base flaps 12 seal the bottom 4 against loss of debris from within the bag.

Each flap 7 has its outer edge 7a as previously described. Inwardly from each outer edge 7a, each flap 7 has its first strip 10. The first strip 10 has a symmetric spacing from the second fold 6 with the second strip 12 on each wall. The first strip and the second strip generally have rectangular shapes as shown. The first strip and the second strip have their cooperating adhesives or mechanical connections. In an alternate embodiment, a flap 7 closes to the wall 2 using an attached disk and cooperating string closure in place of the paired first strip 10 and second strip 11. The string upon each flap may also extend and secure to the disk of an opposite flap for closing the top of the bag 1. In an alternate embodiment, each flap 7 may adjoin to its neighboring flap to the right using a perforation instead of a cut line.

Where each first fold 5 intersects with each second fold 6, each wall 2 has a reinforcing band 9. The reinforcing band protects the material of the bag against tears in the vicinity of points a, b as shown. As described previously, each reinforcing band splits, as at 9a, above the second fold 6 so that the flaps 7 may bend inwardly to secure the bag upon a frame and later to close the bag when removed from the frame if needed. The first wall 2, to the left in the figure has a band 9 extending outwardly from the wall so that it may engage with its counterpart on the fourth wall 2′ generally upon the tab opposite the bottom flap. The fourth wall 2′ also has a portion of reinforcing band shown in preparation for its joining with the first wall 2 at a stress point proximate the tab 14.

Turning the bag over, the invention shows its flat form again in FIG. 6 but with an inner surface of the bag's walls visible in this figure. Generally a user of the bag sees the inner surface upon starting to fill the bag. The bag has its four walls 2 as before of a generally rectangular sheet of material, preferably double layered kraft paper. From the left of this figure, the bag has its fourth wall 2′ with the tab 14 on the leading edge of the fourth wall, as at fold line 15. The fourth wall 2′ is to the right of the tab 14 as shown. The slender rectangular tab extends along the length of the fourth wall. The tab allows for joining of the fourth wall back to the first wall, generally on the opposite end of this figure at the first fold 5 in the first wall to form the bag into its rectangular prismatic shape as previously shown in FIG. 1. The tab has its own fold line along line c-b as at 15. From the fourth wall, the third wall 2 extends along the third fold line 5 as shown. The third fold line also extends along line a-a as shown. The third wall 2 joins to the second wall 2 joins and the second wall 2 joins to the first wall 2 also upon fold lines 5 along lines a-a as shown towards the right in this figure. These fold lines 5 are mutually parallel as before.

Each wall has its base flap 12 of a rectangular shape with the longitudinal axis and a perpendicular lateral axis shorter than the longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis has a generally perpendicular orientation to the fold lines 5. Each base flap has its fold line 16 along line c-c as before. Points c are slightly away from points a as shown so that each base flap has a spacing from adjacent base flaps. The base flaps overlap and join upon the seam 13 as previously shown to close the bottom 4 of the bag 1 when in its rectangular prismatic shape. Preferably, the fold lines each have the same length and alternatively, the fold lines 16 have alternating lengths so that the cross section of the bag appears rectangular.

Spaced away and mutually parallel to the fold lines 16 of the base flaps, each wall has its flap 7 upon each second fold 6. Each second fold is along line b-b as before and points b are slightly away from points a as shown so that each flap has a spacing from its adjacent flaps. The points b of the flaps 7 may have a different spacing from points a than the points c of the base flaps 12.

Each flap 7 has its outer edge 7a as previously described but no strips upon this inner surface of the planar form of the invention. Where each first fold 5 intersects with each second fold 6, each wall 2 has a reinforcing band 9 upon this inner surface as shown. The reinforcing band protects the material of the bag against tearing out in the vicinity of points a, b as shown. The first wall 2, to the right in this figure has a band 9 extending outwardly from the wall so that it attach to its counterpart on the fourth wall 2 generally upon the tab 14 opposite the bottom flap. The fourth wall 2 also has a portion of reinforcing band shown in preparation for its joining with the first wall 2 at a stress point proximate the tab 14.

And, FIG. 7 shows a bottom view of the invention as in FIG. 2 but with the flaps 7 in an open position in the background. The flaps 7 extend outwardly from the walls 2 upon fold lines 6 as previously described. Each flap also has its first strip 10 spaced away from fold line 6. The flaps though have their widths generally slightly narrower than the width of a wall. The flaps have a slight inset from each corner defined along fold line 5 from FIG. 1.

From the aforementioned description, a bag with reinforced walls has been described. The bag with reinforced walls is uniquely capable of releasably securing to a frame of a top cover on a riding mower, standing by itself with lesser risk of tip over, and eliminating the risk of tearing proximate the second fold of its flaps. The bag with reinforced walls also retains vapors emanating from contents within the bag. The bag with reinforced walls and its various components may be may be manufactured from many materials, including but not limited to, paper, kraft paper, paperstock, paperboard, cardboard, burlap, steel, aluminum, polymers, ferrous and non-ferrous metal foils, their alloys, and composites.

Various aspects of the illustrative embodiments have been described using terms commonly employed by those skilled in the art to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced with only some of the described aspects. For purposes of explanation, specific numbers, materials and configurations have been set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the illustrative embodiments. However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without the specific details. In other instances, well known features are omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the illustrative embodiments.

Various operations have been described as multiple discrete operations, in a manner that is most helpful in understanding the present invention, however, the order of description should not be construed as to imply that these operations are necessarily order dependent. In particular, these operations need not be performed in the order of presentation.

Moreover, in the specification and the following claims, the terms “first,” “second,” “third” and the like—when they appear—are used merely as labels, and are not intended to impose numerical requirements on their objects.

The above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive. For example, the above-described examples (or one or more aspects thereof) may be used in combination with each other. Other embodiments can be used, such as by one of ordinary skill in the art upon reviewing the above description. The Abstract is provided to allow the reader to ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. Also, in the above Detailed Description, various features may be grouped together to streamline the disclosure. This should not be interpreted as intending that an unclaimed disclosed feature is essential to any claim. Rather, inventive subject matter may lie in less than all features of a particular disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment. The scope of the invention should be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. Therefore, the claims include such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A device to collect debris, said device comprising:

four walls spaced apart in a prismatic shape, said walls forming from three parallel spaced apart folds, said folds having a length generally defining a height of said device and each of said walls having a width;

a bottom formed beneath said four walls closing said device;

each of said walls having a base flap and an opposite flap, said flap having a second fold to said wall;

a reinforcing band proximate the joining of each of said flaps to each of said walls; and,

each of said flaps having a connection to said wall wherein upon folding each of said flaps outwardly from said device, said flap remain upon said wall during its usage, and upon unfolding each of said flaps from said wall inwardly to said device, said flap closes said device opposite said bottom.

2. The debris collecting device of claim 1 further comprising:

each of said walls having a second fold mutually engaging said flap and said wall.

3. The debris collecting device of claim 1 further comprising:

a tab, extending outwardly from one of said walls, said tab spanning between said flap and said base flap and of similar length as said fold, where said tab secures one of said walls to another of said walls forming said device into its prismatic shape.

4. The debris collecting device of claim 2 further comprising:

a first strip upon each of said flaps;

each of said walls having a second strip symmetrically spaced about said second fold from each of said first strips; and,

said first strips and said second strips being one of adhesive, mechanical fastener, or magnetic.

5. The debris collecting device of claim 4 wherein said first strips and said second strips are peel and stick adhesive.

6. The debris collecting device of claim 4 wherein said first strips and said second strips are releasable adhesive.

7. The debris collecting device of claim 4 wherein said first strips and said second strips are one of cooperating hook and loop fasteners or string and button.

8. The debris collecting device of claim 3 further comprising:

each of said flaps having a width along said second fold of lesser length than the width of one of said walls.

9. A self standing container for debris, said container comprising:

a planar sheet;

said sheet having a first wall, generally rectangular in shape, a second wall mutually contiguous from said first wall and generally rectangular in shape, a third wall mutually contiguous from said second wall and generally rectangular in shape, a fourth wall mutually contiguous from said third wall and generally rectangular in shape, and a tab mutually contiguous from said fourth wall and opposite said third wall;

said first wall, said second wall, said third wall, and said fourth wall cooperating to form a prismatic shape upon three parallel spaced apart folds, said tab connecting to said first wall opposite said second wall, and said folds having a length generally defining a height of said device and each of said walls having a width;

each of said first wall, said second wall, said third wall, and said fourth wall having a base flap and an opposite flap, each of said flaps having a second fold to its respective wall;

a bottom formed by closing said base flaps of each of said first wall, said second wall, said third wall, and said fourth wall thus said bottom closes said device;

a plurality of reinforcing bands proximate each of said flaps at its second fold to each of said walls;

each of said flaps having a connection to said wall wherein upon rotating each of said flaps outwardly from said device, said flap remains upon said wall during its usage, and upon rotating each of said flaps from said wall inwardly to said device, said flap closes said device opposite said bottom; and,

said sheet having an outer surface displayed outwardly of said prismatic shape and an opposite inner surface concealed within said prismatic shape, said outer surface including said connection of said flaps and said plurality of reinforcing bands and said inner surface including said plurality of reinforcing bands.

10. The self standing container for debris of claim 9 further comprising:

a first strip upon each of said flaps;

each of said walls having a second strip symmetrically spaced about said second fold from each of said first strips; and,

said first strips and said second strips being one of adhesive, mechanical fastener, or magnetic.

11. The debris collecting device of claim 10 wherein said first strips and said second strips are peel and stick adhesive.

12. The debris collecting device of claim 10 wherein said first strips and said second strips are releasable adhesive.

13. The debris collecting device of claim 10 wherein said first strips and said second strips are one of cooperating hook and loop fasteners or string and button.

14. The debris collecting device of claim 3 further comprising:

each of said flaps having a lesser width along said second fold than the width of one of said walls.

15. A debris collecting container, said container comprising:

four walls spaced apart in a rectangular prismatic shape, each pair of walls having a common fold, and each wall having a width;

a bottom formed beneath said four walls closing said device;

each of said walls having a base flap and an opposite flap, said flap having a second fold to said wall, and each of said flaps having a width along said second fold of lesser length than the width of one of said walls;

a tab, extending from one of said walls, said tab spanning between said flap and said base flap outwardly from said wall, wherein said tab secures one of said walls to another of said walls forming said device into its prismatic shape;

a reinforcing band proximate the joining of each of said flaps to each of said walls;

each of said flaps having a connection to said wall wherein upon folding each of said flaps outwardly from said device, said flap remain upon said wall during its usage, and upon unfolding each of said flaps from said wall inwardly to said device, said flap closes said device opposite said bottom; and,

said connection including a first strip upon each of said flaps, each of said walls having a second strip symmetrically spaced about said second fold from each of said first strips and said first strips and said second strips being one of adhesive, mechanical fastener, or magnetic wherein said adhesive includes peel and stick adhesive and releasable adhesive and said mechanical fastener includes hook and loop fasteners or string and button.