EP0312900B1 - Greif-, Hub- und Kippvorrichtung zum Entleeren von Müllbehältern, wobei die Vorrichtung an der Seite eines Müllfahrzeuges angebracht ist - Google Patents

Greif-, Hub- und Kippvorrichtung zum Entleeren von Müllbehältern, wobei die Vorrichtung an der Seite eines Müllfahrzeuges angebracht ist Download PDF

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EP0312900B1
EP0312900B1 EP88116913A EP88116913A EP0312900B1 EP 0312900 B1 EP0312900 B1 EP 0312900B1 EP 88116913 A EP88116913 A EP 88116913A EP 88116913 A EP88116913 A EP 88116913A EP 0312900 B1 EP0312900 B1 EP 0312900B1
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Giorgio Gasparini
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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
    • B65F3/04—Linkages, pivoted arms, or pivoted carriers for raising and subsequently tipping receptacles
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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
    • B65F2003/0263—Constructional features relating to discharging means
    • B65F2003/0276—Constructional features relating to discharging means capable of moving towards or away from the vehicle

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  • This invention relates to a device for engaging, lifting and tilting a trash or refuse bin, intended for a side loading truck, being of a type which comprises the features of the first part of claim 1 and which is disclosed in FR-A-2 461 667.
  • refuse collected into the refuse bins should be picked up by the truck without any manual intervention of operators to push the bins toward the truck and its bin-engaging arms.
  • a conventional device currently employed comprises, associated with the slide, an upright structure having two crank arms journalled on its top end, wherein the horizontally laid arm in its lowered position locates level with the bin engagement plane. It may be appreciated that inasmuch as such arms are to pick up the bin from ground starting with the anchoring point of the bin engagement trunnions, the hinge point of the upright boom of the crank arms should be positioned to such a level that, as said arms are moved angularly upwards, the bin can be lifted higher than the threshold for discharging the refuse into the truck body, or loading hopper if so equipped. Accordingly, the path travelled by the bin from ground to up to the height setting for its emptying will lie along an arc whose radius is equal to the distance from the hinge center of the arms to the bin engagement trunnions.
  • a further problem due to the large radius of curvature of the travel path of said arms, is that where a bin happens to be placed on the ground close to immovable obstructions, such as building walls, poles, parked vehicles, etc., the bin lifting operation is apt to be hindered by such obstructions.
  • Another prior approach provides a device having vertical guides associated with the slide, intended for a lifter movable in a vertical direction by means of roller chains, much in the same way of the load-engaging forks of lift trucks or the like.
  • the lifter is equipped with a tilting mechanism mounting the bin-engaging arms.
  • This conventional device enables the bin to be tilted over as it reaches its highest point, but has the well-recognized drawback of a highly complex construction, which reflects in high cost and low reliability in operation.
  • the problem underlying this invention is to provide a device of the kind outlined above which has such structural and performance characteristics as to meet the above-noted demand, while overcoming the cited drawbacks affecting the prior art.
  • one of the rocker arms can be extended by the action of a drive means, said extensible rocker arm constituting said bin-tilting means.
  • the numeral 1 designates comprehensively a side loading truck for picking up refuse or trash material, which has a truck body 2 of rectangular cross-sectional shape installed on a truck frame 3 mounted on wheels 4.
  • the truck body 2 is formed, on a side wall 5 thereof, with a recess 6 having a right trapezoidal cross-section shape with an oblique side 7 sloping down inwards of the truck body.
  • An opening 8 is provided in the truck body 2 which spans both a portion of the wall 5 starting with the oblique side 7 and almost the entire top wall of the truck body.
  • the recess 6 and opening 8 extend by the same distance along the truck body 2 length, starting with the rear end of the truck.
  • the truck 1 comprises a device 9 for engaging, lifting, and tilting a bin 10.
  • the device 9 comprises two identical bin-engaging arms 11, intended for picking up the bin 10; said arms 11 being associated, in a manner to be described, with a slide 12 mounted on the truck, said slide being movable, by the action of a an oil-operated cylinder 13, crosswise to the longitudinal axis of the truck, between a home position with the slide retracted inside the truck and a bin-engaging position with the slide extended from the truck cantilever fashion.
  • the device 9 further comprises a lifting means 14 for the bin-engaging arms 11, and tilting means 15 for the bin-engaging arms 11, placed between said arms 11 and the slide 12.
  • the slide 12 is formed by a horizontal sheet-like element 16 and a vertical sheet-like element 17 connected at right angles to each other.
  • the horizontal element 16 is guided slidably in a seat 18 formed transversely in the frame 3.
  • the vertical sheet-like element 17 extends in parallel with the side wall 5 and fits in the recess 6 with the slide in its retracted position.
  • the arms 11 have respective ends journalled to carriages 19 which are mounted along end portions 20 of an elongate body 21 extending longitudinally.
  • Two oil-operated cylinders 22, one for each arm 11, are provided for moving angularly in a vertical plane respective arms 11 about their end journalled on respective carriages 19, between a raised home position out of the way where the arms lie vertically close against the element 17, and an operating position where the arms are extended cantilever fashion to engage with the bin at the opposite end, provided with a special V-shaped engagement seat 23.
  • An oil-operated cylinder 24 extends between the two carriages 19 and acts thereon to drive the carriages along the elongate body 21 to and fro, as required.
  • the elongate body 21 is connected to the element 17 by two identical pairs of rocker arms 25 and 26, indicated at 25 being the upper rocker arm and at 26 the lower one.
  • Each pair of rocker arms 25 and 26 forms, in cooperation with the sheet-like element 17 and the elongate body 21, an articulated quadrilateral, indicated at 27, wherein the sheet-like element 17 forms the so-called fixed side and the elongate body 21 the so-called moving side.
  • the elongate body 21 is, by virtue of its connection to the element 17 of the slide 12 via said pairs of rocker arms 25 and 26, movable between a home position where it locates substantially beneath the element 17 and an operating position where it locates remote from said element.
  • two identical oil-operated cylinders 28 are provided which lie side-by-side and have one end journalled on the element 17 and the other end arranged to act on a toggle mechanism device 29 formed by two rods 30 and 31 having first ends journalled to each other and to one end of said oil-operated cylinders, and second ends journalled on the element 17 and the upper rocker arm 25, respectively.
  • the articulated quadrilaterals 27 and oil-operated cylinders 28 constitute together the aforementioned arm lifting means 14.
  • the lower rocker arm 26 can be extended by the action of a drive means 32, with the elongate body 21 in its operating position.
  • the lower rocker arm 26 consists of an oil-operated cylinder 33 having its ends journalled on the element 17 and elongate body 21, respectively.
  • the oil-operated cylinder 33 which can be brought to a condition of minimum length when the piston rod is fully retracted and to a condition of maximum length when the piston rod is fully extended, itself constitutes the drive means 32 for extending the rocker arm 26.
  • the elongate body 21 Under the drive from the oil-operated cylinder 33, the elongate body 21 performs an angular movement about the upper rocker arm 25, between a lowered position and a raised position, to result in the bin-engaging arms and the bin itself being rotated.
  • the extensible rocker arm 26 and its related drive means 32 i.e. the oil-operated cylinder 33, constitute the aforesaid means 15 of rotating the bin-engaging arms 11.
  • the arms 11 are driven angularly to their operating positions (re. Figure 3).
  • the slide 12 is then moved to the pick up position, where the V-shaped seats 23 of the arms locate beneath the corresponding engagement members on the bin (re. Figure 4).
  • the carriages 19 are driven toward each other such that the arms 11 clamp around the bin.
  • the bin lifting is completed, again by means of the oil-operated cylinders 28 (re. Figure 6). Under this condition, the bin will be occupying a raised position, laterally of the truck body 2, substantially level with the opening 8 close to the oblique side 7 sloping inwards of the truck body.
  • the bin is tilted over, by means of the oil-operated cylinder 33 which, when extended, causes the elongate element 21, and hence the arms 11, to be perform an angular movement and the bin to be turned upside down over the opening 8.
  • the device is brought back to its original position, along with the bin, now empty.
  • a major advantage of the device according to this invention is that it enables the bin contents to be discharged in a rapid and reliable manner, with no droppings, and in a fully automatic fashion.
  • a further advantage is that it is compact in size, capable of fitting fully within the truck outline limit, and housed within a truck body recess of limited breadth.
  • bins can also be picked up where placed close to such obstructions as poles, building walls, parked vehicles, and the like, thanks to its angular movement feature in a vertical plane.
  • An additional advantage is that the operations can also carried out in narrow streets, where the truck must be driven very close to the bin, inasmuch as the arm lowering by rotation in a vertical plane from the hinge center is unhindered by the front wall of the bin and allows the latter to be engaged in any case.
  • a not least advantage of the inventive device is its simple constructions, which authorizes reliable and long-term trouble-free operation expectations.

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  1. Vorrichtung (9) zum Greifen, Heben und Kippen eines Müll- oder Abfallbehälters (10) für einen Seitenladerwagen (1) der Art, die Behältergreifarme (11) sowie eine Behälterhebe- (14) und Kippeinrichtung, (15) die über ein Element (12) auf dem Wagen (1) angebracht ist, umfaßt, wobei die Behälterhebeeinrichtung (14) ein gelenkiges Viereck (27) mit einer festen Seite (17), die mit dem Element (12) starr verbunden ist, einem oberen Kipphebel (25), einem unteren Kipphebel (26) sowie einer beweglichen Seite (21) umfaßt, mit der die Behältergreifarme (11) verbunden sind, wobei die Behälterkippeinrichtung (15) einen ölbetrieben Zylinder (33) umfaßt, der den unteren Kipphebel (26) bildet, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Element eine Gleiteinrichtung (12) ist, die auf den Behälter (10) zu und von ihm weg beweglich ist, und daß die Behältergreifarme (11) in einer vertikalen Ebene winklig eingezogen werden können.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie einen ölbetriebenen Zylinder (28) umfaßt, dessen eines Ende an der festen Seite (17) gelagert ist, und dessen anderes Ende auf eine Kniehebelmechanismusvorrichtung (29) wirkt, die durch zwei Stangen (30, 31) gebildet wird, deren erste Enden aneinander und an einem Ende des ölbetriebenen Zylinders (28) gelagert sind, und deren zweite Enden an der festen Seite (17) bzw. am oberen Kipphebel (25) gelagert sind.
EP88116913A 1987-10-23 1988-10-12 Greif-, Hub- und Kippvorrichtung zum Entleeren von Müllbehältern, wobei die Vorrichtung an der Seite eines Müllfahrzeuges angebracht ist Expired - Lifetime EP0312900B1 (de)

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IT22400/87A IT1222979B (it) 1987-10-23 1987-10-23 Dispositivo di presa sollevamento e rotazione di cassonetti per la raccolta dei rifiuti per autocarri a caricamneto laterale

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