EP0706488B1 - Müllsammelfahrzeug - Google Patents

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EP0706488B1
EP0706488B1 EP95919444A EP95919444A EP0706488B1 EP 0706488 B1 EP0706488 B1 EP 0706488B1 EP 95919444 A EP95919444 A EP 95919444A EP 95919444 A EP95919444 A EP 95919444A EP 0706488 B1 EP0706488 B1 EP 0706488B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65FGATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/14Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle
    • B65F3/143Means facilitating the separation of the charging, distributing or compressing devices from the tank of refuse vehicles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65FGATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/14Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle
    • B65F3/20Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle with charging pistons, plates, or the like
    • B65F3/201Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle with charging pistons, plates, or the like the charging pistons, plates or the like moving rectilinearly
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65FGATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F2003/006Constructional features relating to the tank of the refuse vehicle
    • B65F2003/008Constructional features relating to the tank of the refuse vehicle interchangeable
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65FGATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/02Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto
    • B65F2003/0263Constructional features relating to discharging means
    • B65F2003/0279Constructional features relating to discharging means the discharging means mounted at the front of the vehicle

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  • the invention relates to a vehicle for recording and Transporting waste materials with one on the vehicle behind the driver's detachable collecting container, the has a filler opening at its cab end, and with a means for receiving at least a waste bin that contains the picked up waste bin in one behind the cab and with one Press interacting hopper emptied, the Extension opening in the lower area of the front wall Filling opening of the collecting container is assigned.
  • a vehicle of the type described above is in WO / 93/15981 shown and described.
  • the collection container is detachable connectable to the vehicle, so that an empty container picked up by the vehicle and the filled container set off from the vehicle and from a pure transport vehicle to the landfill or another transshipment point can be transported.
  • the collection container can be provided with legs, such as those of so-called Swap bodies are known, so that the elevated Collection containers are thereby picked up by the vehicle can that this reversing under the collection container drives and after appropriate positioning of the collection container is connected to the vehicle.
  • the vehicle can also provided with a so-called hook lift device be so that the on its front wall with a corresponding Receiving eye provided collection container from the in the vehicle longitudinal direction pivotable gate-shaped lift arm on the Vehicle frame pulled up and in a correspondingly reverse Movement can be stopped by this.
  • a major problem with such a removable container is to close the container after filling and from Solve the vehicle without leaving waste residue when loosening the container fall on the vehicle or into the environment.
  • From DE-A-3443320 is a mobile waste transfer station for temporary storage known, essentially from a transportable There is a collection container with a cross section its end face corresponding filling opening is provided. In this filler opening from a backwards to the opening approached refuse collection vehicle after folding up one rear unloading flap with the help of one in its loading container arranged thrust shield of the loaded garbage are expelled.
  • the portable collection container can be designed in this way be that either the vehicle with its opening wing-like design of the end wall right into the container drive in, the gate wing-like elements the rear of the vehicle enclose.
  • the practically occupying the entire end face of the collecting container Filling opening in a against the emptying opening of the Vehicle swiveling cover arranged with her Edge can be placed on the edge of the discharge opening of the refuse collection vehicle is.
  • a waste transfer station is known, the one Has stationary press device at the ejection opening drive a vehicle connected to a container backwards can.
  • the container has a free container cross section overall overlapping emptying flap, whose Flap area with the emptying flap closed vertically as additional lock door can be raised. It is used for filling Vehicle firmly connected to the press.
  • the opening of the Press is also with a vertically sliding shutter door provided that raised via hydraulic cylinders to open can be. Via drivers on the press-side lock door the container-side lock door is also lifted. Complete closure and sealing of the transition area is not between the filling opening and the opening intended.
  • the invention has for its object in a collecting vehicle of the former type the transition area between the Press and the collecting container arranged on the vehicle both in terms of function as well as in terms of construction improve to provide a proper seal during the filling and a clean seal during the To achieve loosening of the collecting container.
  • the particular advantage here is the arrangement of the Filling opening of the frame bounding the frame given that this also the guides for the lock door records. Because of the rigidity required anyway of the frame delimiting the fill opening are the guides secured against deformation for the lock door.
  • a further embodiment is specified in claim 4.
  • a crossbar which is preferably provided with spike-shaped driver means is a structurally simple design and very compact actuator that when docking of the collecting container with its driver pins in simple Way in a suitably trained recording of the shutter door be inserted. Because the traverse is arranged above the counter frame, can also by a corresponding recess sufficient clearance for an existing eyelet for hook lift operation equipped collection container can be created.
  • both sides of the opening of the Press can be arranged.
  • the synchronism of the two Hydraulic cylinders can either be operated by a synchronization control in such a way that both hydraulic cylinders are of the same design and both via a flow divider Hydraulic cylinders acted on with the same amount of fluid become.
  • the vote takes place here in such a way that the displacement volume of the on the piston rod side defined annulus of the first Hydraulic cylinder is the same size with the piston chamber of the second hydraulic cylinder, so that when advancing volume of the first hydraulic cylinder the annulus of the first hydraulic cylinder in the piston chamber of the second hydraulic cylinder and thus synchronism is forced.
  • a particularly advantageous embodiment is in claim 6 specified.
  • the vehicle 1 shown in Fig. 1 for recording and Transporting waste is with a collection container 2, the detachable via closures 3 on the vehicle frame attached, equipped.
  • the collection container 2 can here after loosening the closures 3 in different Be removed from the vehicle. This can either in that the collecting container can be extended downwards, in Fig. 2 supports shown, so that the vehicle that has a lowering device is equipped after lowering from the elevated Can drive away the container. The recording then takes place in reverse order.
  • the rear end wall 4 of the collecting container 2 is usually formed as a lockable flap, so that after opening the latch of the contents of the collection container can be emptied by tipping.
  • the collection container can also be designed so that the front end wall as Emptying flap is designed and completely for emptying can be folded up.
  • Filling opening 6 On the front end wall 5 is in the lower area Filling opening 6 is provided, which on one on its outside applied door, for example a vertically displaceable and lockable sliding door is closable, such as this in more detail below with the aid of the following figures will be explained.
  • a Arranged press On the vehicle itself is in the space between the Cab and the front wall 5 of the collecting container 2 a Arranged press, the hydraulic press cylinder and one Has ram.
  • the press is with a hopper 7 provided, the discharge opening through a tubular Extension 8 is formed, which is dimensioned so that it up to the area of the filling opening 6 of the collecting container 2 is enough. Now becomes waste when the ram is withdrawn thrown into the hopper 7, this can over the ram through the tubular extension 8 of the discharge opening of the hopper 7 in the Collection container 2 are inserted.
  • the area between the discharge opening of the hopper 7 and the filling opening 6 is with one to be explained in more detail below Sealing sealed from the environment.
  • the vehicle 1 has a device 9 for receiving and emptying a waste container 10 provided at the illustrated embodiment by a two-part Swivel arm pair is formed, which is designed that it is shown at an angle of about 180 ° lower recording position over the intermediate position shown be pivoted into the emptying position can.
  • the broken line shows the rest position while driving.
  • the pair of swivel arms is here designed so that during the pivoting movement of the waste container is held vertically and only when reached the emptying position above the hopper 7 via a separate rotary actuator in the shown Emptying position can be pivoted.
  • the pair of swivel arms is in the illustrated embodiment via a corresponding pivot bearing 11 in the upper front area of the driver's cab on one over the driver's cab extending, in connection with the press 12 in connection standing carrier 13 stored.
  • Fig. 2 is the process of picking up a collection container 2 by a vehicle 1 of those described in more detail above Embodiment shown.
  • container 2 To accommodate the swiveling Legs 14 provided container 2 is a vehicle designed for so-called swap bodies used that over hydraulic or pneumatic systems can be lowered overall.
  • the vehicle is driving here backwards under the collecting container 2 until its end wall 5 on a receiving and Positioning device 15 comes to rest, via which the Collection container 2 with its limited by a frame 16 Filling opening 6 on a corresponding counter frame 17 comes to rest on the discharge opening of the press 12 and here driver 18 of an actuator 19 in the corresponding picture in the following intervene the lock door to be described on the collection container.
  • the Recording device 9 only through its pivot bearing 11 indicated.
  • Fig. 3 shows on a larger scale in a vertical section the end wall 5 of the collecting container 2.
  • the end wall 5 is so rigidly constructed by a framework 20 that, as can be seen from the sectional view, also attached a receiving eye 21 for lift operation can be, so that the container overall over the framework 20 can also be held in hook lift operation.
  • the frame 16 is now integrated into the framework 20, which, as shown in FIG. 4, the filling opening 6 of the collecting container 2 limited.
  • the frame 16 points to its on both vertical sides guide slots in which a closure door 22 covering the filling opening 6 is held vertically displaceable.
  • the shutter door 22 has receptacles 23 on both sides at its upper end in which the driver 18 on the actuating device 19th while "docking" the collecting container 2 on the press 12 can intervene.
  • Fig. 4 shows a front view the filling opening covered by the closure door 22 and the frame delimiting the filler opening, the individual frame sides identified by the reference numeral 16 are.
  • FIG 5 shows in a detailed drawing and in a side view the press 12 with the carrier 13, at its front end the pivot bearing 11 not shown here for the receiving device 9 is attached.
  • the vehicle is only indicated by the chassis.
  • the actuating device 19 is connected to the press 12, which is essentially formed by a guide 24, on the one traverse 25 via two parallel hydraulic cylinders 26 can be moved up and down.
  • the traverse 25 is above the counter frame 17 at the extension opening arranged.
  • the in the receptacle 23 on the shutter door engaging mandrel-like drivers 18 are each on attached to both ends of the cross member 25.
  • the extension opening limited by the counter frame 17 the press 12 has a tubular extension 27 provided, which are bounded by the counter frame 17 Area close to the lock door.
  • Preferably on the counter frame 17 is on the end face circumferential seal 17.1 arranged against the end face of the frame 16 pressed when docking the collecting container 2 is and thus a dust and odor-tight closure this transition area is guaranteed.
  • the collection container 2 is about locking elements not shown here also in the direction of thrust of the press (arrow 28) directly connected to the press, so that the Pushing the waste into the collection container in the vehicle's longitudinal direction forces occurring immediately between Press and collection container are included.
  • Fig. 6 shows a front view of the opening the garbage press with the counter frame that limits it 17 and the tubular extension 27.
  • the cross member 25 Above the Counter frame 17 is the cross member 25 with the spike-like Carriers 18 and a recess 29 of the cross member 25 to recognize that the area of the also indicated in Fig. 5 Leaves lifting eye 21 free.
  • the hydraulic cylinders 26 On both sides of the counter frame 17 the hydraulic cylinders 26 can be seen, through which the traverse 25 is displaced on the guide 24 can be.
  • Fig. 7 shows the top view of the filling opening of the press 12 with the guides 24 for the cross member 25 with the drivers 18 and the tubular extension 27 of the opening.
  • Fig. 8 the circuit of the hydraulic cylinder is schematic the hydraulic cylinder 26.1 moving the cross member 25 and 26.2.
  • the two cylinders are here connected in series and designed so that the piston rod-side annular space 31 of the hydraulic cylinder 26.1 in volume the volume of the piston-side space 32 corresponds to the hydraulic cylinder 26.2.
  • the annulus 31 is connected to the piston chamber 32 via a line 33.
  • the piston chamber 34 of the hydraulic cylinder 26.1 and the piston rod-side annular space 35 of the hydraulic cylinder 26.1 are with a corresponding control valve 36 with the pressure oil supply connected.
  • the piston chamber 34 is used to lift the cross member 25 of the hydraulic cylinder 26.1 with pressurized fluid, so is by the displacement of the pressure fluid from the Annulus 31 in the piston chamber 32 of the hydraulic cylinder 26.2 this also moves. Because the volumes of the annulus 31 and the piston chamber 32 are the same, this will the synchronization of both hydraulic cylinders is forced.
  • the Pressurized fluid located in the annular space 35 is supplied via the control valve 36 returned to the pressure oil supply.
  • the sequence of movements takes place to close the lock door in reverse order to that described above Opening movement.
  • the stamp 12.1 withdrawn so far that the opposite edge recessed upper edge of the front surface 12.2 in the Plane of movement of the shutter door 22 is. Now will the shutter door 22 via its actuator lowered far so that the lower edge of the shutter door 22nd touches the front surface 12.2 of the stamp 12.1. Subsequently the stamp 12.1 is withdrawn further and over the Actuating device the shutter door 22 tracked so that the bottom edge of the shutter door during this whole Movement remains in contact with the front surface 12.2, until the punch 12.1 completely out of the filling opening 6 is retracted and the shutter door 22 its final Has reached the closed position. Only then will the interlock 30 solved so that the container 2 by longitudinal displacement be placed on the vehicle by the press.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Refuse-Collection Vehicles (AREA)
  • Processing Of Solid Wastes (AREA)
  • Filters For Electric Vacuum Cleaners (AREA)
  • Refuse Collection And Transfer (AREA)
EP95919444A 1994-05-13 1995-05-11 Müllsammelfahrzeug Expired - Lifetime EP0706488B1 (de)

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DE9407869U DE9407869U1 (de) 1994-05-13 1994-05-13 Müllsammelfahrzeug
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PCT/EP1995/001791 WO1995031388A1 (de) 1994-05-13 1995-05-11 Müllsammelfahrzeug

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US5741107A (en) 1998-04-21
DE9407869U1 (de) 1995-09-14
ATE186515T1 (de) 1999-11-15
GR3032532T3 (en) 2000-05-31
ES2141938T3 (es) 2000-04-01
PT706488E (pt) 2000-04-28

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