CA1264702A - Recyclable refuse collecting and transport vehicle with side bucket top loading - Google Patents
Recyclable refuse collecting and transport vehicle with side bucket top loadingInfo
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
- B65F3/00—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
- B65F3/02—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
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Abstract
RECYCLABLE REFUSE COLLECTING AND TRANSPORT VEHICLE
WITH SIDE BUCKET TOP LOADING
Abstract of the Disclosure A recyclable refuse collecting and transport container comprising an enclosure having side walls, front and rear walls, a bottom wall and an open top end.
Refuse loading buckets are displaceably secured adjacent one or two of the side walls by guide means for displacing the buckets from a loading position, adjacent a lower portion of the side wall, to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall. A linkage is connected to the buckets and to an actuating hydraulic piston for effecting the displacement of the buckets along the guide rails. At least one displaceable partition wall is secured inside the enclosure for separating the enclosure into at least two compartments for receiving different types of refuse in each of the compartments by the buckets.
WITH SIDE BUCKET TOP LOADING
Abstract of the Disclosure A recyclable refuse collecting and transport container comprising an enclosure having side walls, front and rear walls, a bottom wall and an open top end.
Refuse loading buckets are displaceably secured adjacent one or two of the side walls by guide means for displacing the buckets from a loading position, adjacent a lower portion of the side wall, to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall. A linkage is connected to the buckets and to an actuating hydraulic piston for effecting the displacement of the buckets along the guide rails. At least one displaceable partition wall is secured inside the enclosure for separating the enclosure into at least two compartments for receiving different types of refuse in each of the compartments by the buckets.
Description
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~ACKGRO~ND OF INVENTION
(a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container wherein the container is divisible into at least two compartments and wherein the container is load2d from an open top end thereof by means of buckets, which are associated with each of the compartments, and which are displaceable along guide rails from a loading position adjacent a lower end of the side wall to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall.
~ b) Description of Prior Art Recyclable refuse or garbage collecting vehicles are known wherein the container of the vehicle is divided into separate compartments whereby to load different type refuse, such as plastics, glass, tin, cardboard and paper refuse in separate ones of these compartments. Such loading is usually made by hand and effectuated by having a side wall of the container opened and the refuse is simply thrown into the various selected compartments by a person walking alongside the vehicle.
As the compartments become filled, side wall panels are attached to the open side wall of the vehicle ad~acent each of the compartments. There may be five or more panels positionable along each open side wall of each compartment. These panels are usually made of steel and quite heavy and require difficult manipulation by the person loading these compartments, particularly when the side wall panels have to be attached in the higher section of the side wall. Consequently, it is not 70~
possible to fill these compar-tments to thelr maximum capacity as it becomes impossible to load them when the opening is too small and too high.
Another disadvantage of this type of recycling refuse loading and transporting vehicle is that some of these panels can become misplaced or lost and, therefore, these compartments cannot be filled to their intended capacity. The use of side wall panels also makes it nearly impossible to compress any of the refuse in the individual compartments. Still further, the process is very slow and labour-intensive and, therefore, costly.
Also these type of vehicles can only be loaded from one side thereof and can be loaded on left is openings were made.
S~MMARY OF INVENTION
It is a feature of the present invention to provide an improved recyclable refuse collecting and transport container which substantially overcomes all of the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container which is adjustably divisible in two or more inner compartments by displaceable part:ition walls and wherein the compartments are loaded by associated loading buckets which are automatically displaceable from a lower end of a side wall for loading and discharged from an open top end of the container.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container wherein the refuse can be classified in 70;~
compartments in the contalner and compressed therein and wherein this refuse can be unloaded individually by compartments.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a refuse collecting and transport container wherein the recyclable refuse is easily dropped in lndividual loading buckets, which is efficient and time-saving, and wherein the container is loaded automatically and the refuse compresses to fill the container to maximum capacity.
According to the above features, from a broad aspect, the present invention provides a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container comprising an enclosure having side walls, front and rear walls, a bottom wall and an open top end. Refuse loading means is displaceably secured adjacent one of the side walls.
Guide means is provided for guiding the refuse loading means from a loading position adjacent a lower portion of the side wall to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall. Linkage means is connected to the loading means and to actuable means for effecting displacement of the loading means. At least one displaceable partition wall is provided inside the enclosure Eor separating the enclosure into at least two compartments for receiving different types of refuse therein from the refuse loading means.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to examples thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawings ln which:
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FIG~RE l is a perspective view of a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container of the present invention and as forming part of a dump truck;
FIGVRE 2 is a fragmented top view of the recyclable refuse collecting and transport container;
FIGURE 3 is a rear view of the recyclable refuse collecting and transport container, partly fragmented, and showing the loading buckets and linkage means and with buckets being provided on both sides of the vehicle;
F~GURES 4 and 5 are fragmented side views showing the tilting mechanism for the buckets;
FIGURE 6 is a rear view of the vehicle showing the buckets at their unloading position;
FIGURES 7 and 8 are fragmented side views showing the bucket actuation linkage in a fully closed and fully open position; and FIGURE 9 is a fragmented perspective view showing the construction of the bucket attachment frame and part of the guide rails and actuating linkage.
DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring now to the drawings, and more parti-cularly to Figure 1, there is shown a vehicle 10 on which there is provided a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container 11 of the present invention and con-stituting a dump truck. The recyclable refuse collecting and transport container 11 consists of an enclosure 12 defined by opposed side walls 13 and 13', a front and rear wall 14 and lS respectively, a bottom wall 16 and an open top end 18 herein closeable by a hinged top cover 19 .
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At least one displaceable partition wall, herein three partition walls 20, 20' and 20", are adjustably secured along the length of the enclosure on a pair of opposed guide rails 21 and 21' or otherwise, whereby to separate the enclosure into at least two compartments, herein four compartments 22 ~see Fig. 2) for the storage of different type refuse. These partition walls 20 are held by a pivot connection along the guide rails 21 in a manner well known in the art. Arresting means in the form of lock pins 23 are provided along the bottom wall or at another convenlent location, and at spaced apart intervals whereby to lock the partition walls at a desired location along the container depending on the deslred size of the compartments 22. These lock pins are released by a suitable connecting linkage, such as a wire linkage, to release the partition walls 20 in a successive manner from the rear partition wall 20" to the front partition wall 20 to discharge the loads in the compartments 22 in succession or at different locations.
By releasing the lock pins 23, the partition wall will pivot when the container ll is tilted as shown in Figure l with and the rear wall or gate 15 is opened.
Referring now additionall.y to F:i.gures 2 and 3, there is shown the refuse loading means in the form of at least two loading buckets, herein three buckets 24, 24' and 24", which are secured to a bucket attachment frame 25 which is displaceable between a pair of guide rails 26 and 26', whereby the buckets are displaceable from a loading position, as shown in Figure l, to an unloading position, as show in Figure 8. Figure 3 illustrates an embodiment where loading buckets 24 are located on opposite sides of the container ll with identical ~i4~70;~
mechanisms being provided on both sides for guiding these containers over the side walls. This type of construction is possible with open top end containers and the buckets could also have covers that would open when dumped.
The bucket 24''' is shown at its loading position where it sits adjacent a lower portion of the container side wall wherein refuse may be loaded from the open top end 27 of the bucket. This opening 27 is normally positioned at a distance from three to four feet from the ground level 28 to facilitate loading thereof.
As hereinshown, there are three or four buckets supported by the attachment frame 25, although buckets may be provided of smaller dimension along the attachment frame if there are more compartments. Refuse of different types, such as cardboard and paper, plastics, glass, etc.
is loaded into individual ones of these buckets so as to load their associated compartments 22 with a specific type of refuse.
Referring now additionally to Figures 4 to 9, there will be described the operation of the bucket unloading mechanism. As shown in Figure 9, the bucket attachment frame 25 comprises a pair of attachment struts 29 between which the buckets 2~ are secured. These buckets may be removably secured to the struts by suitable locking means such as removable fasteners (not shown). At the end of the attachment struts, there is provided a flange bracket 30 to which a pair of spaced-apart rail engaging wheels 31 and 31' are secured and extending outwardly of the flange bracket 30. These wheels 31 and 31' are spaced apart a predetermined distance for a reason as will be described later, and 70;~
these are aligned on a vertical axis. Each pair of wheels 31, 31' and 32, 32' are held captive in a respective one of the guide rails 26 and 26' whereby the bucket and its attachment frame 25 can be displaced therebetween. As can be seen, the guide rails have a straight vertical portion 33 extending substantially parallel to the adjacent side wall 13 or 13' thereof and extend over or under the top edge 13" of the side wall where the rail defines a tilting end portion thereabove.
The tilting end portion is comprised of a guide wheel release rail portion 34 and a bucket arresting and positioning portion 35. The guide wheel release rail portion 34 is provided with a wheel exit port 36 in a rail side wall 34' for releasing the rear one of the pair of spaced-apart rail engaging wheels, and namely, wheels 31' and 32' from its associated rail to permit the tilting of the buckets 24 secured to the attachment struts 29. The arresting and positioning portion 35 of the rail has an end abutment 37 for arresting the forward one of the wheels, namely wheels 31 and 32. The guide wheel release rail portion is angulated inwardly towards the enclosure open top end 18 and the bucket arresting and positioning portion 35 extends spaced above the open top end a predetermined distance so that the refuse, when unloaded, does not fall out of its associated compartment. The end abutment 37 and the exit port 36 are spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between the wheels of each pair of wheels to permit the exiting of the rear wheels 31' and 32'.
The bucket and its associated frame is dis-placed by the linkage means which is constituted, as better seen in Figures 2 and 6, by a toggle lever which 70;~
consists of a bucket connecting linkage 40 and a pair of actuable pivot arms 41 connected together on a pivot rod rod 42. This linkage is provided at both ends of the container with the pivot rod 42 entending therealong.
The actuable pivot arm is connected to a piston rod end 43 of the piston rod 44 of the hydraulic piston 45 which is secured to the front and back wall 14 of the container. The bucket connecting linkage 40 comprises a right angle arm 46 having a connecting rod 47 pivotally attached to a free end 48 of the right angle arm 46 and to the bucket attachment frame or flange wall 30, as better seen in Figure 9. A stabilizing structure link rod 56 is connected between the arm 46 and a stationary support wall.
Figure 7 shows the linkage in its collapsed position and wherein the right angle arm 46 is collapsed pushing the buckets 24 to their lowermost loading posi~
tion, as denoted by bucket 24';' in Figure 3. When it is desired to unload the buckets into the open top end of the container, the pistons 45~ at each end of the container, are actuated slowly displacing the toggle lever 40 towards its bucket discharge position as shown in Figure 6. As shown in Figure 3, as the toggle lever moves upwardl~ in the direction of arrow 49, the bucket 24 starts moving up between the guide rails 26. When the front or top rail engaging wheels 31 and 32 reach the wheel release rail portion 34, the front guide wheels 31 and 32 will follow the rail portion 34 as the pivot connection 50 of the connecting rod 47 is offset outwardly to maintain a forward bias on the front guide wheels 31 or 32 so that the bucket tilts forwardly, as shown in Figure 4. The linkage 47 then starts moving ~i47(:~
towards the open top end 18 of the container while pulling upwardly on the bucket causing the rear guide wheels 31' or 32' to move out of the guide rail through the exit port 36 with the front guide wheel 31 abutting against the abutment end 37. Accordingly, the rear end of the bucket 24 will lift, causing the refuse to be unloaded, as shown in Figure 8. The hydraulic piston 45 then retracts its piston rod and causes the toggle lever 40 to move back to its rest position as shown in Figure 7 causing the buckets to re-engage with the guide rails and relocate itself the loading position.
As shown in Figure 6, a top cover 19 may be secured along an edge thereof to the pivot rod 42 which is connected to the angle arm 46 so that each time the toggle lever is actuated to a bucket unloading position, the cover is lifted to give access to the compartments in the container. Addltionally, the cover may be provided with compartment compacting wall sections 55, herein formed as an inverted cone, and secured to the underside of the cover 19 and aligned with respective ones of the compartments whereby to compact refuse placed therein to permit the compartments to receive more refuse.
It is within the ambit of the present invention to cover any obvious modifications oE the examples of the preferred embodiment described herein, provided such modifications fall within the scope of the appended claims. It is conceived that the refuse collecting and transport container of the present invention be provided as part of a vehicle as a or trailer securable to a motorized vehicle capable of tilting the container to unload its contents. The transport container could also be made to tilt sideways. Additionally, the container _ g _ 1;~6470;~
may simply be transported by a motorized vehicle and then secured to a tilting frame at an unloading dock where the container would be tilted to discharge its compartmental loads. The buckets 24 may be of different sizes depending on the number of compartments provided in the container. Further, the buckets may be provided with a hinged top wall which hinges out when the bucket is tilted to unload its content. This is desirable to prevent papers or light material from flying out of the buckets during the discharge cycle.
~ACKGRO~ND OF INVENTION
(a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container wherein the container is divisible into at least two compartments and wherein the container is load2d from an open top end thereof by means of buckets, which are associated with each of the compartments, and which are displaceable along guide rails from a loading position adjacent a lower end of the side wall to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall.
~ b) Description of Prior Art Recyclable refuse or garbage collecting vehicles are known wherein the container of the vehicle is divided into separate compartments whereby to load different type refuse, such as plastics, glass, tin, cardboard and paper refuse in separate ones of these compartments. Such loading is usually made by hand and effectuated by having a side wall of the container opened and the refuse is simply thrown into the various selected compartments by a person walking alongside the vehicle.
As the compartments become filled, side wall panels are attached to the open side wall of the vehicle ad~acent each of the compartments. There may be five or more panels positionable along each open side wall of each compartment. These panels are usually made of steel and quite heavy and require difficult manipulation by the person loading these compartments, particularly when the side wall panels have to be attached in the higher section of the side wall. Consequently, it is not 70~
possible to fill these compar-tments to thelr maximum capacity as it becomes impossible to load them when the opening is too small and too high.
Another disadvantage of this type of recycling refuse loading and transporting vehicle is that some of these panels can become misplaced or lost and, therefore, these compartments cannot be filled to their intended capacity. The use of side wall panels also makes it nearly impossible to compress any of the refuse in the individual compartments. Still further, the process is very slow and labour-intensive and, therefore, costly.
Also these type of vehicles can only be loaded from one side thereof and can be loaded on left is openings were made.
S~MMARY OF INVENTION
It is a feature of the present invention to provide an improved recyclable refuse collecting and transport container which substantially overcomes all of the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container which is adjustably divisible in two or more inner compartments by displaceable part:ition walls and wherein the compartments are loaded by associated loading buckets which are automatically displaceable from a lower end of a side wall for loading and discharged from an open top end of the container.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container wherein the refuse can be classified in 70;~
compartments in the contalner and compressed therein and wherein this refuse can be unloaded individually by compartments.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a refuse collecting and transport container wherein the recyclable refuse is easily dropped in lndividual loading buckets, which is efficient and time-saving, and wherein the container is loaded automatically and the refuse compresses to fill the container to maximum capacity.
According to the above features, from a broad aspect, the present invention provides a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container comprising an enclosure having side walls, front and rear walls, a bottom wall and an open top end. Refuse loading means is displaceably secured adjacent one of the side walls.
Guide means is provided for guiding the refuse loading means from a loading position adjacent a lower portion of the side wall to an unloading position over a top edge of the side wall. Linkage means is connected to the loading means and to actuable means for effecting displacement of the loading means. At least one displaceable partition wall is provided inside the enclosure Eor separating the enclosure into at least two compartments for receiving different types of refuse therein from the refuse loading means.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to examples thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawings ln which:
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FIG~RE l is a perspective view of a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container of the present invention and as forming part of a dump truck;
FIGVRE 2 is a fragmented top view of the recyclable refuse collecting and transport container;
FIGURE 3 is a rear view of the recyclable refuse collecting and transport container, partly fragmented, and showing the loading buckets and linkage means and with buckets being provided on both sides of the vehicle;
F~GURES 4 and 5 are fragmented side views showing the tilting mechanism for the buckets;
FIGURE 6 is a rear view of the vehicle showing the buckets at their unloading position;
FIGURES 7 and 8 are fragmented side views showing the bucket actuation linkage in a fully closed and fully open position; and FIGURE 9 is a fragmented perspective view showing the construction of the bucket attachment frame and part of the guide rails and actuating linkage.
DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring now to the drawings, and more parti-cularly to Figure 1, there is shown a vehicle 10 on which there is provided a recyclable refuse collecting and transport container 11 of the present invention and con-stituting a dump truck. The recyclable refuse collecting and transport container 11 consists of an enclosure 12 defined by opposed side walls 13 and 13', a front and rear wall 14 and lS respectively, a bottom wall 16 and an open top end 18 herein closeable by a hinged top cover 19 .
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At least one displaceable partition wall, herein three partition walls 20, 20' and 20", are adjustably secured along the length of the enclosure on a pair of opposed guide rails 21 and 21' or otherwise, whereby to separate the enclosure into at least two compartments, herein four compartments 22 ~see Fig. 2) for the storage of different type refuse. These partition walls 20 are held by a pivot connection along the guide rails 21 in a manner well known in the art. Arresting means in the form of lock pins 23 are provided along the bottom wall or at another convenlent location, and at spaced apart intervals whereby to lock the partition walls at a desired location along the container depending on the deslred size of the compartments 22. These lock pins are released by a suitable connecting linkage, such as a wire linkage, to release the partition walls 20 in a successive manner from the rear partition wall 20" to the front partition wall 20 to discharge the loads in the compartments 22 in succession or at different locations.
By releasing the lock pins 23, the partition wall will pivot when the container ll is tilted as shown in Figure l with and the rear wall or gate 15 is opened.
Referring now additionall.y to F:i.gures 2 and 3, there is shown the refuse loading means in the form of at least two loading buckets, herein three buckets 24, 24' and 24", which are secured to a bucket attachment frame 25 which is displaceable between a pair of guide rails 26 and 26', whereby the buckets are displaceable from a loading position, as shown in Figure l, to an unloading position, as show in Figure 8. Figure 3 illustrates an embodiment where loading buckets 24 are located on opposite sides of the container ll with identical ~i4~70;~
mechanisms being provided on both sides for guiding these containers over the side walls. This type of construction is possible with open top end containers and the buckets could also have covers that would open when dumped.
The bucket 24''' is shown at its loading position where it sits adjacent a lower portion of the container side wall wherein refuse may be loaded from the open top end 27 of the bucket. This opening 27 is normally positioned at a distance from three to four feet from the ground level 28 to facilitate loading thereof.
As hereinshown, there are three or four buckets supported by the attachment frame 25, although buckets may be provided of smaller dimension along the attachment frame if there are more compartments. Refuse of different types, such as cardboard and paper, plastics, glass, etc.
is loaded into individual ones of these buckets so as to load their associated compartments 22 with a specific type of refuse.
Referring now additionally to Figures 4 to 9, there will be described the operation of the bucket unloading mechanism. As shown in Figure 9, the bucket attachment frame 25 comprises a pair of attachment struts 29 between which the buckets 2~ are secured. These buckets may be removably secured to the struts by suitable locking means such as removable fasteners (not shown). At the end of the attachment struts, there is provided a flange bracket 30 to which a pair of spaced-apart rail engaging wheels 31 and 31' are secured and extending outwardly of the flange bracket 30. These wheels 31 and 31' are spaced apart a predetermined distance for a reason as will be described later, and 70;~
these are aligned on a vertical axis. Each pair of wheels 31, 31' and 32, 32' are held captive in a respective one of the guide rails 26 and 26' whereby the bucket and its attachment frame 25 can be displaced therebetween. As can be seen, the guide rails have a straight vertical portion 33 extending substantially parallel to the adjacent side wall 13 or 13' thereof and extend over or under the top edge 13" of the side wall where the rail defines a tilting end portion thereabove.
The tilting end portion is comprised of a guide wheel release rail portion 34 and a bucket arresting and positioning portion 35. The guide wheel release rail portion 34 is provided with a wheel exit port 36 in a rail side wall 34' for releasing the rear one of the pair of spaced-apart rail engaging wheels, and namely, wheels 31' and 32' from its associated rail to permit the tilting of the buckets 24 secured to the attachment struts 29. The arresting and positioning portion 35 of the rail has an end abutment 37 for arresting the forward one of the wheels, namely wheels 31 and 32. The guide wheel release rail portion is angulated inwardly towards the enclosure open top end 18 and the bucket arresting and positioning portion 35 extends spaced above the open top end a predetermined distance so that the refuse, when unloaded, does not fall out of its associated compartment. The end abutment 37 and the exit port 36 are spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between the wheels of each pair of wheels to permit the exiting of the rear wheels 31' and 32'.
The bucket and its associated frame is dis-placed by the linkage means which is constituted, as better seen in Figures 2 and 6, by a toggle lever which 70;~
consists of a bucket connecting linkage 40 and a pair of actuable pivot arms 41 connected together on a pivot rod rod 42. This linkage is provided at both ends of the container with the pivot rod 42 entending therealong.
The actuable pivot arm is connected to a piston rod end 43 of the piston rod 44 of the hydraulic piston 45 which is secured to the front and back wall 14 of the container. The bucket connecting linkage 40 comprises a right angle arm 46 having a connecting rod 47 pivotally attached to a free end 48 of the right angle arm 46 and to the bucket attachment frame or flange wall 30, as better seen in Figure 9. A stabilizing structure link rod 56 is connected between the arm 46 and a stationary support wall.
Figure 7 shows the linkage in its collapsed position and wherein the right angle arm 46 is collapsed pushing the buckets 24 to their lowermost loading posi~
tion, as denoted by bucket 24';' in Figure 3. When it is desired to unload the buckets into the open top end of the container, the pistons 45~ at each end of the container, are actuated slowly displacing the toggle lever 40 towards its bucket discharge position as shown in Figure 6. As shown in Figure 3, as the toggle lever moves upwardl~ in the direction of arrow 49, the bucket 24 starts moving up between the guide rails 26. When the front or top rail engaging wheels 31 and 32 reach the wheel release rail portion 34, the front guide wheels 31 and 32 will follow the rail portion 34 as the pivot connection 50 of the connecting rod 47 is offset outwardly to maintain a forward bias on the front guide wheels 31 or 32 so that the bucket tilts forwardly, as shown in Figure 4. The linkage 47 then starts moving ~i47(:~
towards the open top end 18 of the container while pulling upwardly on the bucket causing the rear guide wheels 31' or 32' to move out of the guide rail through the exit port 36 with the front guide wheel 31 abutting against the abutment end 37. Accordingly, the rear end of the bucket 24 will lift, causing the refuse to be unloaded, as shown in Figure 8. The hydraulic piston 45 then retracts its piston rod and causes the toggle lever 40 to move back to its rest position as shown in Figure 7 causing the buckets to re-engage with the guide rails and relocate itself the loading position.
As shown in Figure 6, a top cover 19 may be secured along an edge thereof to the pivot rod 42 which is connected to the angle arm 46 so that each time the toggle lever is actuated to a bucket unloading position, the cover is lifted to give access to the compartments in the container. Addltionally, the cover may be provided with compartment compacting wall sections 55, herein formed as an inverted cone, and secured to the underside of the cover 19 and aligned with respective ones of the compartments whereby to compact refuse placed therein to permit the compartments to receive more refuse.
It is within the ambit of the present invention to cover any obvious modifications oE the examples of the preferred embodiment described herein, provided such modifications fall within the scope of the appended claims. It is conceived that the refuse collecting and transport container of the present invention be provided as part of a vehicle as a or trailer securable to a motorized vehicle capable of tilting the container to unload its contents. The transport container could also be made to tilt sideways. Additionally, the container _ g _ 1;~6470;~
may simply be transported by a motorized vehicle and then secured to a tilting frame at an unloading dock where the container would be tilted to discharge its compartmental loads. The buckets 24 may be of different sizes depending on the number of compartments provided in the container. Further, the buckets may be provided with a hinged top wall which hinges out when the bucket is tilted to unload its content. This is desirable to prevent papers or light material from flying out of the buckets during the discharge cycle.
Claims (12)
1. A recyclable refuse collecting and transport dump truck container comprising an enclosure having side walls, front and rear walls, a bottom wall and an open top end, refuse loading means displaceably secured adjacent one of said side walls, guide means for guiding said refuse loading means from a loading position adjacent a lower portion of said side wall to an unloading position over a top edge of said side wall, linkage means connected to said loading means and to actuable means for effecting displacement of said loading means, at least one displaceable partition wall inside said enclosure for separating said enclosure into at least two compartments for receiving different types of refuse therein from said refuse loading means, said partition wall being adjustably secured along the length of said enclosure to define compartments of desired sizes, said refuse loading means being comprised of at least two buckets having an open top end for loading refuse therein, said buckets being displaceable on independent ones of said guide means to unload refuse in an associated one of said at least two compartments, said guide means having a bucket attachment frame displaceably secured between a pair of guide rails, follower means at opposed ends of said bucket attachment frame and engageable in a respective one of said guide rails, said guide rails having a bucket tilting end portion for dis-charging refuse located in said buckets, said linkage means having a toggle lever having a bucket connecting linkage secured to said bucket attachment frame and an actuable pivot arm connected to a piston rod end of a piston constituting said actuable means, said bucket connecting linkage having a right angle arm provided with a connecting rod pivotally attached to a free end thereof and to said bucket attachment frame, a top cover secured to a section of said right angle arm and a pivot rod to cause same to be displaced from a closed position over said open top end to an open position when said piston is actuated to move said buckets from their loading position to their unloading position.
2. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said partition wall is hinged to a pair of guide rails disposed spaced apart in a top portion of said enclosure.
3. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is further provided a plurality of partition wall arresting means secured in a spaced apart manner along said enclosure for arresting said at least one partition wall at a desired location along the length of said enclosure.
4. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 3, wherein said enclosure is a dump truck enclosure tiltable on a pivot axis for rear end dump discharge, said rear wall being displaceably connected for opening a rear end of said enclosure for unloading refuse in a rear one of said compartments when said enclosure is tilted, said other compartment(s) being unloaded by releasing said arresting means engaged with said partition wall so as to cause said partition wall to swing out on its top hinge connection.
5. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said follower means comprises a pair of spaced apart rail engaging wheels secured along a vertical axis at a respective one of said opposed ends of said bucket attachment frame, each said pair of wheels being held captive in a respective one of said pair of guide rails, said guide rails having a straight vertical portion extending substantially parallel to said one side wall of said enclosure and extending over its said top edge and defining said tilting end portion thereabove.
6. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 5, wherein said tilting end portion is comprised of a guide wheel release rail portion and a bucket arresting and positioning portion, said guide wheel release rail portion having a wheel exit port in a rail side wall thereof for releasing a rear one of said pair of spaced apart rail engaging wheels from said rail to permit said tilting of said buckets, said arresting end positioning portion having an end abutment for arresting a forward one of said wheels.
7. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 6, wherein said guide wheel release rail portion is angulated inwardly towards said enclosure open top end, said bucket arresting and positioning portion extending spaced above said open top end, said end abutment and said exit port being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between said wheels of said pair of spaced apart rail engaging wheels.
8. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cover is provided with at least two compartment compacting wall sections secured to an underside of said cover, said compacting wall sections being aligned with a respective one of said compartments for compacting refuse placed therein by their associated buckets.
9. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein there are refuse loading means displaceably secured adjacent both of said side walls.
10. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is provided a plurality of partition walls along the length of said enclosure and a plurality of buckets associated with respective ones of said compartments defined by said partition walls.
11. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said container is a trailer securable to a motorized vehicle.
12. A refuse collecting and transport container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said container is a motorized dump truck container.
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