EP0709308B1 - Grossmüllbehälter - Google Patents

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EP0709308B1
EP0709308B1 EP94830514A EP94830514A EP0709308B1 EP 0709308 B1 EP0709308 B1 EP 0709308B1 EP 94830514 A EP94830514 A EP 94830514A EP 94830514 A EP94830514 A EP 94830514A EP 0709308 B1 EP0709308 B1 EP 0709308B1
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Giovanni Bragadina
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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
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/12—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor with devices facilitating emptying
    • B65F1/122—Features allowing the receptacle to be lifted and subsequently tipped by associated means on a vehicle

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  • the present invention relates to a refuse container, that is a container or bucket for holding refuse, of the type comprising the features recited in the preambles of claims 1 and 2.
  • rubbish skips in order to ensure an efficient collection and disposal of municipal rubbish, refuse containers or rubbish skips have been increasingly more used which substantially consist or a box-shaped body, made of a plastic, fiberglass or metal material and defining at the inside thereof a housing space designed to receive said rubbish.
  • the rubbish skips of the above type are conveniently distributed on the ground so as to offer a plurality of fixed collection points; advantageously the increasingly wider use of the rubbish skips has made it possible to carry out a rational disposal of rubbish, enabling said rubbish to be collected in a differentiated manner, which will subsequently enable recycling of paper, paperboard, glass and plastics, which materials usually constitute most of the usual domestic and industrial waste products.
  • emptying of said rubbish skips is also very practical and no human intervention is required.
  • collection vehicles are employed which are provided with a handling equipment carrying out the following operations: picking up of the skips from the ground, lifting of same above a collection box provided on board of a vehicle and overturning of the skips in order to discharge the refuse into the above vehicle box.
  • the handling equipment for the skips can operate on one side of the vehicle or at the front cab thereof. At all events, such a handling equipment is provided at the end with grasping elements engaging corresponding anchoring means associated with the skip which in this manner can be raised and overturned by the handling equipment, following the above described step sequence.
  • the above anchoring means comprises a pair of pins usually of a cylindrical conformation, each emerging from one of the two opposite sides of the skip. More particularly, said attachment pins are usually disposed in the plane of the longitudinal centre line of the skip close to the upper portion thereof.
  • the handling equipment When it is necessary to carry out emptying of the skip, the vehicle intended for such an operation is moved close to the skip and subsequently the handling equipment is operated so that the attachment pins are engaged by said equipment and the necessary lifting and overturning steps are carried out.
  • the handling equipment must be comprised of at least one pair of grasping elements operating in a cantilevered fashion relative to the vehicle and capable of reaching said attachment pins.
  • the handling equipment must be accomplished by means of linkages of big sizes which, under operating conditions, are very bulky and therefore disadvantageous as far as the space management on board of the vehicle is concerned.
  • the presence of elements projecting from the skip sides, such as the attachment pins makes it impossible to dispose several skips in side by side relation and directly in contact with each other.
  • the described attachment pins are bodies projecting from the skip and therefore are inconvenient in terms of accident prevention measures.
  • the anchoring means comprises a plate-like element fastened to the front face of the skip so as to define one or more pocket seats the opening of which is turned downwardly and into which the grasping elements associated with the handling equipment can be inserted.
  • anchoring means operating on the front wall of the skip offers the facility of using handling apparatuses comprising linkages of greatly reduced sizes as compared with those used in the prior art and therefore having a more compact structure, capable of being moved more easily and occupying less room both under operating conditions and rest conditions.
  • the pocket seat since the pocket seat has an access opening directed downwardly, the latter, due to its own nature, cannot be inspected with ease; therefore, if debris or other materials have partly obstructed the seat, malfunction and inaccurate couplings are likely to occur.
  • the grasping elements before carrying out the movement for lifting the skip, must be necessarily lowered under the pocket level and then moved upwardly so as to be correctly fitted into the pocket itself. Obviously, this requirement adversely affects the time necessary for executing the whole cycle involving emptying of the skip.
  • Document US-A-4,726,616 discloses a refuse container having anchoring means formed by a pair of sleeve members extending horizontally on opposite lateral walls of the container, and designed to be engaged by respective grasping elements carried by the handling equidment mounted on the collecting vehicle. Also this solution is substantially affected by the drawbacks already explained with reference to the skips provided with side attachment pins, and requires a long time for executing the emptying cycle, because the entire handling equipment must be considerably moved away from the vehicle to perform the engagement of the grasping elements with the sleeve members.
  • the fundamental object of the present invention is to substantially solve all the drawbacks present in the known art.
  • a rubbish skip that is a container for holding refuse in accordance with the present invention has been generally identified by reference numeral 1.
  • Skip 1 comprises a box-shaped body 2 resting on the ground by conventional supporting members such as for example support feet 3.
  • the box-shaped body 2 can be made of a plastic, fiberglass or a metal material and is generally provided with a lid 4 for closing a housing space 5 defined at the inside of the box-shaped body 2 and designed to receive rubbish.
  • the box-shaped body 2 comprises a side perimeter wall 2a with which anchoring means 6 is associated, said anchoring means being designed to engage corresponding grasping elements 7 being part of a handling equipment (not shown, in that it is the object of European Patent Document EP-A-0 709 910 filed on same date by the same applicant) carried by a conventional vehicle for refuse collection and transportation.
  • the anchoring means 6 comprises at least one first element 8 fixed to the side perimeter wall 2a and defining, in cooperation with said wall, a tubular fitting seat 9, having a substantially horizontal extension, arranged to correspondingly receive at least one of said grasping elements 7.
  • the grasping elements are preferably two in number, each of them operating at a respective end of the tubular seat 9.
  • the first element 8 is fastened to a front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a.
  • This front portion 2b directly faces the handling equipment thereby enabling an easier action by the grasping elements 7.
  • the anchoring means 6 that is the first element 8, can take different structural conformations depending on the requirements that may exist each time.
  • the first element may consist of a section member having a substantially C-shaped transverse section.
  • a section member is rigidly engaged to the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip, for example by welding, bolting or other conventional systems and defines a tubular seat 9 having a substantially parallelepiped configuration having its major extension in the horizontal direction.
  • said seat exhibits an oversized transverse section as compared with the section of the grasping elements that, in this manner, are fitted with play in the tubular seat.
  • the first element 8 is advantageous for the first element 8 to be made in the form of a section member the transverse section of which has a curved configuration, as shown in the embodiments in Figs. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13 and 14.
  • the first element 8 may be advantageously made of two halves 8a opposing symmetrically relative to a vertical middle plane 10 of the skip and each defining a respective fitting seat 9 designed to receive the corresponding grasping element 7.
  • halves 8a can be connected to each other at the above middle plane 10, as shown in Fig. 11, or be mutually spaced apart from the middle plane itself, as shown for example in Figs. 1 and 13.
  • such halves 8a preferably have a tapering configuration towards the vertical middle plane 10 so as to cause a corresponding taper of the respective fitting seat 9.
  • the rubbish skip 1 being the object of the present invention is also comprised of locating means 11 carried by the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip as well, preferentially close to the front portion 2b below the first element 8.
  • a locating means 11 is adapted to interact with an engagement member 12 carried by the handling apparatus too and designed to make the skip carry out its overturning step, in cooperation with the action of the grasping elements 7.
  • the locating means 11 too can be embodied according to different forms.
  • the locating means 11 may comprise a mere abutment plate 13 fixedly fastened to the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1.
  • the engagement member 12 consists of a stopper acting by thrust on the abutment plate 12 when it is necessary to carry out overturning of the skip in order to discharge the refuse into the case or box associated with the collection vehicle.
  • this solution which is certainly simple from a structural point of view, is adopted, the skip is required to be able to come back spontaneously, after being emptied, to the condition preceding overturning.
  • the locating means 11 comprises a section member 14 extending in a substantially horizontal direction and having a C-shaped transverse section, as shown in Fig. 3, or an inverted L-shaped transverse section as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the section member 14 is fixedly secured to the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip and interacts with at least one engagement member 12 which may for example consist of an element insertable into the seat 14a defined between the section member 14 and the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1.
  • the engagement member 12 is capable of controlling overturning of the skip 1 and recalling the latter to the starting position once emptying of the refuse has been completed.
  • the locating means 11 can consist of a first handle element 15 vertically engaged to the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1 substantially at the vertical middle plane 10.
  • the engagement member 12 consists of a stopper associated at the end with an actuator having a horizontally movable rod adapted to be inserted in a loop 15a defined between the handle 15 and the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip.
  • the locating means 11 may comprise a pair of first handle elements 15 vertically engaged to the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1 and disposed symmetrically to the vertical middle plane 10 of the skip itself, as shown in Figs. 1 and 13.
  • the engagement member 12 will be provided at the end with two actuators the respective rods of which are moved horizontally to be each fitted into the corresponding loop 15a defined between each handle 15 and the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip.
  • the locating means 11 may consist of a second handle element 16 horizontally engaged to the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip.
  • said engagement member 12 in order to be able to cooperate with such a horizontal handle element, shall be provided at the end with an actuator having a vertically movable rod and susceptible of insertion into the loop 16a defined between the horizontal handle 16 and the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1.
  • the invention achieves important advantages.
  • tubular seat since the tubular seat has a horizontal extension, it can be easily inspected and therefore cleaning and servicing operations are facilitated and a reliable coupling is always ensured.
  • positioning of the anchoring means 6 and locating means 11 close to the front portion 2b of the side perimeter wall 2a of the skip 1 is very advantageous because in this manner the handling equipment exhibits linkages of reduced bulkiness as compared to those of the known art and, at the same time, can operate on the skip in a much easier manner.
  • the skips can be disposed side by side, directly in contact with each other, so that the room they require will be greatly reduced.
  • the solutions involving one or more horizontally or vertically disposed handles is very advantageous.
  • an actuator associated with the engagement member 12 of the handling equipment it is possible to achieve an efficient coupling and carry out the overturning operations with great ease.
  • the first element 8 in order to be able to execute the necessary handling operations relating to the skip, the first element 8 will be shaped so as to define a tubular fitting seat 9 having a shape conforming to the outer surface of the grasping elements 7.
  • tubular seat 9 and grasping elements 7 shall exhibit mutually matching circular or polygonal cross sections also susceptible of variation along the longitudinal extension of the first element 8.

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  1. Müllbehälter umfassend:
    - ein Gehäuse (2) mit rechteckigem Querschnitt, das innen mindestens einen zur Aufnahme von Müll bestimmten Aufnahmeraum (5) aufweist;
    und
    - Verankerungsmittel (6), die einer seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Gehäuses (2) zugeordnet sind, wobei die Verankerungsmittel (6) mindestens ein erstes, oberes Element (8) umfaßt, das an der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) festliegt und einen im wesentlichen horizontalen rohrförmigen Stecksitz (9) festlegt, wenn sich der Behälter in seiner Ruhestellung befindet und über Einstecken durch mindestens ein offenes Ende des rohrförmigen Stecksitzes mindestens ein Greifelement (7) einer Bewegungseinrichtung aufnimmt, die durch ein Sammeltransportfahrzeug getragen wird,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Element (8) sich über einen stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) erstreckt, dem sich die Bewegungseinrichtung zubewegt, um den Müll in das Sammeltransportfahrzeug zu entleeren, wobei das erste Element (8) beide Hälften (8a) umfaßt, die jeweils am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) aneinandergereiht, voneinander getrennt und symmetrisch gegenüber einer vertikalen Mittelebene (10) des Behälters (1) symmetrisch gegenüberliegen, wobei jede der Teilehälften (8a) einen jeweiligen rohrförmigen Einstecksitz (9) festlegt, der mindestens ein entsprechendes offenes Ende aufweist, das dazu bestimmt ist, ein entsprechendes Greifelement (7) aufzunehmen.
  2. Müllbehälter umfassend:
    - ein Gehäuse rechteckigen Querschnittes (2), das in seinem Inneren mindestens einen Aufnahmeraum (5) festlegt, der zur Aufnahme von Müll bestimmt ist;
    und
    - Verankerungsmittel (6), die der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Gehäuses (2) zugeordnet sind, wobei die Verankerungsmittel (6) mindestens ein erstes, oberes Element (8) umfassen, das an der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) festliegt und einen im wesentlichen horizontalen rohrförmigen Einstecksitz (9) festlegt, wenn der Behälter sich in seiner normalen Ruhestellung befindet und dazu bereitgestellt ist, über Einstecken durch mindestens ein offenes Ende des rohrförmigen Einstecksitzes mindestens ein Griffelement (7) einer Bewegungseinrichtung aufzunehmen, die durch ein Sammeltransportfahrzeug getragen wird,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Element (8) sich über einen stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) erstreckt, welchem stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) sich die Bewegungseinrichtung zubewegt, um den Müll in den Sammeltransportfahrzeug zu entleeren, wobei der rohrförmige Einstecksitz (9) an beiden Enden offen und im wesentlichen gegenüber einer vertikalen Mittelebene (10) des Behälters auf den mittigen Abschnitt (2b) zentriert ist, wobei Anschlagmittel (11) am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) auf einer gegenüber dem ersten Element 8 niedrigeren Höhe bereitgestellt und dazu bestimmt sind, mit einem Greifelement (12) zusammenzuwirken, das durch die Bewegungseinrichtung getragen wird.
  3. Behälter nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Element (8) ein Profil mit einem im wesentlichen als "C" ausgebildeten Querschnitt umfaßt, wobei das Profil an der zweiten Wand starr angreift.
  4. Behälter nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Element (8) ein Profil mit einem Querschnitt mit bogenförmiger Ausbildung aufweist, wobei das Profil an der seitlichen Wand starr angreift.
  5. Behälter nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Element (8) eine Konfiguration aufweist, die sich in Richtung zur vertikalen Mittelebene (10) verjüngt, um eine entsprechende Konizität des Einstecksitzes (9) festzulegen.
  6. Behälter nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der rohrförmige Sitz einen Querschnitt mit einer im wesentlichen runden Ausbildung aufweist.
  7. Behälter nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der rohrförmige Sitz einen Querschnitt mit polygonaler Ausbildung aufweist.
  8. Behälter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er überdies Anschlagmittel (11) umfaßt, die durch den stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) unterhalb des ersten Elementes getragen werden und dazu bereitgestellt sind, mit einem Eingriffsorgan (12) zusammenzuwirken, das durch die Bewegungseinrichtung getragen wird.
  9. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagsmittel (11) eine Anschlagsplatte (13) umfassen, die an den stirnseiten Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Behälters starr gebunden ist.
  10. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagsmittel (11) ein erstes Griffelement (15) umfassen, das vertikal am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Behälters (1) im wesentlichen im Bereich einer vertikalen Mittelwand (10) dieses letzteren angreift.
  11. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagmittel ein Paar von ersten Griffelementen (15) aufweisen, die vertikal am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Behälters (1) angreifen und gegenüber einer vertikalen Mittelebene (10) des Behälters selbst symmetrisch angeordnet sind.
  12. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagsmittel (11) ein zweites Griffelement (16) aufweisen, das horiziontal am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand (2a) des Behälters angreift.
  13. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagsmittel (11) ein Profil (14) umfassen, das sich im wesentlichen gemäß einer horizontalen Richtung abwickelt und einen im wesentlichen "C"-förmig ausgebildeten Querschnitt aufweist, wobei das Profil (14) am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand des Behälters (11) starr angreift.
  14. Behälter nach Anspruch 2 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anschlagmittel (11) ein Profil (14) aufweisen, das sich im wesentlichen gemäß einer horizontalen Richtung abwickelt und einen im wesentlichen als auf dem Kopf stehendes "L"-förmig ausgebildeten Querschnitt aufweist, wobei das Profil (14) am stirnseitigen Abschnitt (2b) der seitlichen Umfangswand des Behälters (1) starr angreift.
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