Garbage bag holder

Claim 1

A two piece garbage bag holder adapted, when assembled and mounted, to suspend in garbage receiving position an appropriately sized garbage bag made of stretchable plastic material by stretching and folding the mouth of said bag over four sharply pronounced corners thereof, said holder comprising, a metal mounting plate adapted for mounting of a back surface thereof against a vertical supporting surface, said mounting plate having socket means formed therein adjacent a horizontal edge thereof by being bent over upon itself in a rearward direction and offset in a forward direction so that the bent over portion lies in substantially the same plane as said back surface and forms between itself and the offset portion a horizontal substantially rectilinear narrow socket which is open at both ends; and a bag supporting frame formed of a single length of metal strapping, the ends whereof are adapted to fit within the ends of said socket, said strapping being bent to provide an end portion at each end thereof adapted to fit within the ends of said socket, a forwardly projecting spacer portion adjacent each of sAid end portions and a substantially rectangular loop portion having a back portion parallel to said end portions adjacent each said spacer portion, a forwardly extending side portion adjacent each of said back portions, and a front portion joining said side portions, with sharply pronounced corners between said side portions and said back portions and said side portions and said front portion.