GB462621A - Improvements in or relating to apparatus for loading from dust-bins, skips and the like - Google Patents

Abstract

462,621. Scavengers' vehicles. GROVE, T., and WILKINSON, J. P. Nov. 22, 1935, No. 32355. [Class 108 (i)] In scavenger vehicles having loading gates of the type comprising an apertured closure member which is movable in and closes a hood and a door hinged to the closure member so as to close the aperture, the door is actuated towards the closed position by co-operation of a relatively fixed surface or cam with a projection on the door, preferably through a roller, and is moved towards the open position by gravity or spring. The closure member 10 is hinged at 12 to the sides of a hood comprising sides 25, 26 and arcuate top 27, the closure member being under the control of a spring 13 and adapted to be held in closed position by snap fasteners 34. The closure member 10 is provided with a door comprising two flaps 19 hinged at 20 and provided with extensions 28 having rollers 29 adapted to co-operate with cam members 30 carried by the sides 25, 26 of the hood, the cam members causing the door flaps to close when the closure member is in its outermost position, and releasing them to allow them to open by gravity &c. when the closure member is swung down. The member 10 is provided with a rim 22 to accommodate the mouth of the bin, sealing means 23, 24 being provided. A latch is provided whereby if desired the closure member is held in its lowered position. A gap 33 is left in the top of the hood to allow a bin to pass into the hood, such gap being closable by a flap 32 carried by the closure member 10. The hood with closure members &c. may be mounted to pass from one end of a vehicle opening to the other and to this end is mounted on the vehicle sides by rollers 41 ... 43 side aprons being attached to the hood and to rollers at the extreme ends of the opening.