03-15-2011, 08:16 PM
nachoman Wrote:... as it turns out the word "Dumpster" was apparently trademarked at one time.
The Dumpster ...
Developed in 1936 by the Dempster brothers ...
Patented in 1937 as the "Dempster Dumpster." ...
The first system of picking the Dumpsters up was rather primitive …
![[Image: EarlyDumpsterSystem-1937.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Miscellaneous%20Images/EarlyDumpsterSystem-1937.jpg)
… but then …
![[Image: FirstDumpmasterSystem-1955.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Miscellaneous%20Images/FirstDumpmasterSystem-1955.jpg)
The Brothers developed the "Dempster Dumpmaster" in 1955, the first front-loading garbage truck, with a pair of arms to pick up and dump the trash into the truck.
![[Image: FirstDumpmasterSystem-1955-2.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Miscellaneous%20Images/FirstDumpmasterSystem-1955-2.jpg)
The name was colloquialized as a "Dipsty-Dumpster" at some point in the late 1960's ...
...and the term "Dumpster" is currently a "genericized trademark," used to describe all manufacturers’ large refuse containers that can be picked up by a specialized refuse collection truck., much as "Kleenex" is now synonymous with "facial tissue."
That’s probably more information than anyone here really wanted to know …
… but I got curious.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln