US 7,320,427 B2
Mailbox
Matthew C. Prestwich, 6163 S. 700 W., Murray, Utah 84123 (US)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/552,617.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/596912, filed on Oct. 28, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0210145 A1, Sep. 13, 2007
Int. Cl. B65G 11/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 232—51  [232/49; 232/45] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A security mailbox comprising:
a. a polyhedral body defining an interior;
b. a lockable, lower access door through which a user may access the interior region;
c. an upper delivery portal with an at least partial interior rim forming a stop along an upper edge of said portal;
d. a delivery door hingedly attached to the upper delivery portal, said door further comprising a package platform and a security baffle joined at a common edge and an envelope access port positioned within the security baffle, said common edge being proximate the location of hinged attachment of the delivery door upon the portal, the envelope access port being comprised of a flap cut out of the security baffle and bent into the interior of the mailbox, as defined when the delivery door is open, at approximately a 90° angle relative to the security baffle;
e. means of securing the delivery door in a closed position and means of opening the delivery door;
wherein, the security baffle is suspended in the interior of the mailbox when the delivery door is in a closed position and abuts the polyhedral body at the rim around the upper delivery portal when the delivery door is open.