JPH09165198A - Refuse collecting method, refuse container reversing device, and refuse container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily reverse and input refuse in a container-type refuse container without the manual operation to be performed by an operator. SOLUTION: A reversing device is used, composed of a stay provided on a movable base stand, an arm 3 supported on the upper part of the stay so as to be rotated by taking the horizontal shaft as the center, a fork 5 having such a shape as to extend from the free end side of the arm in the direction approximately perpendicular to the rotational center of the arm 3, and having such a shape as to be inserted into a cylindrical fitting provided on the bottom surface of a container main body 11, and an actuator (for example, a hydraulic cylinder) for applying the rotational movement to the arm 3. Refuse in the container is discharged into the specified refuse input box by vertically reversing a refuse container 10 while lifting the refuse container 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for collecting dust in a container-type waste container having casters at the bottom of a container body, and a waste container reversing device used when implementing the collecting method. Regarding garbage containers.

[0002]

[Prior Art] In buildings, underground malls, station premises, etc.
Generally, after collecting garbage from various places such as workplaces and shops in a container type (with casters) garbage container, carry the container type garbage container to a garbage truck or garbage storage machine A waste collection method is adopted in which the waste is discharged into the waste input box.

[0003] On the other hand, a garbage truck generally has a structure in which a garbage loading box provided with a garbage loading device is provided at a rear opening of a garbage storage box. In addition, as a garbage truck for the above-mentioned container-type garbage container waste disposal, it is equipped with a reversing device in which the reversing arm moves to below the input port of the garbage throwing box, and the reversing device lifts and reverses the garbage container. By doing so, there is known a structure in which the dust and the like in the dust container is discharged into the dust throwing box through the throwing port (for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-43923).

As a waste container that can be used in such a reversing device, a pivot shaft (rotary support shaft) parallel to the horizontal direction is provided on the outer surface of one side wall of the container body, and both ends of the container support the main body. It is generally installed so as to project laterally (for example, registered design number 919459), and the entire waste container of this structure can be lifted by sandwiching both ends of the pivot shaft with the above-mentioned reversing device. .

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION However, according to the above-mentioned method for collecting waste of a container type waste container, when a waste collection vehicle or a waste storage machine for throwing in waste does not have a reversing device, an operator does not There is a problem that the dust must be thrown in manually, and the dust throwing operation is very troublesome and takes a lot of time.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and a waste collection method by which the waste in the container type waste container can be easily inverted and thrown in without any manual operation by the operator, and the method. The purpose is to provide a device for reversing and charging. Another object of the present invention is to provide a waste container suitable for use in such a waste container reversing device.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a method of collecting dust according to the present invention collects dust in a dust container provided with a caster for transportation at the bottom of a container body having an opening at the top. In the method, a supporting fork is inserted into a tubular receiver provided on the bottom surface of the container body, and then the fork is rotated about a horizontal axis by a rotating mechanism,
It is characterized in that the container main body is lifted and turned upside down so that the dust inside the container is discharged into a predetermined dust input box.

Further, the refuse container reversing device of the present invention is a device suitable for carrying out the above-mentioned dust collecting method, and as shown in FIGS. 1, a support 2 provided on the support 1, an arm 3 rotatably supported on the support 2 about a horizontal axis, and a direction from the free end side of the arm 3 substantially orthogonal to the rotation center of the arm 3. A fork 5 having a shape that extends in the direction of, and that can be inserted into a tubular receiving member 14 provided on the bottom surface of the container body 11, and an actuator (for example, a hydraulic cylinder 7) that imparts rotational movement to the arm 3, 5 is inserted in the cylindrical receiving member 14 on the bottom surface 11a of the container body, the fork 5 is rotationally moved by the arm 3 and the actuator, and the waste container 10 is lifted and inverted.

On the other hand, since the waste container of the present invention can be used for the reversing device having the above-mentioned structure, as shown in FIG. 4 which is a drawing of the embodiment, the waste container is provided on the bottom surface 11a of the container body. A tubular receiving member 14 for inserting the fork 5 (see FIG. 2) used when lifting and reversing 10 is provided.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, an example of an embodiment of the waste container of the present invention will be described.

As shown in FIG. 4, the waste container 10 of this example has a container body 11 made of plastic or metal with an open top and four corners of the bottom surface 11a of the container body 11 (front, rear, left and right 4). The caster 12 is attached to a place), and a pair of left and right receivers 14 is provided on the bottom surface 11a of the container body 11.

The pair of receiving members 14 are circular pipes having an inner diameter into which a fork 5 of a refuse container reversing device, which will be described later, can be inserted. As shown in FIG. 5, the auxiliary plate 13 has a U-shaped cross section.
Are fixed to the corner portions of the container body 11 by welding or the like, and in the state where the respective auxiliary plates 13 are attached to the bottom surface 11a of the container body 11, the receiving members 14 extend along the short side direction of the container body 11, They are fixed in positions that are in a mutually parallel positional relationship.

Next, an example of an embodiment of the refuse container inverting device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The base 1 has casters (with stoppers) 1a ...
Is provided, and the entire structure is movable. The base 1 is provided with a pair of columns 2 facing each other, and arms 3 are attached to the upper ends of the columns 2, respectively.

The pair of arms 3 are rotatably supported on the upper end of the column 2 via a rotary shaft 2a parallel to the horizontal axis. The free ends of the pair of arms 3 are connected to each other by a connecting stay 4, and the pair of forks 5 and 5 are fixed to the connecting stay 4. Each fork 5 is a round bar-shaped member extending in a direction orthogonal to the rotation center of the arm 3, and is processed to have a shape and dimension that allows the above-mentioned dust container 10 to be inserted into the receiving tool 14. Further, the center-to-center distance between the pair of forks 5 and 5 corresponds to the pair of receiving members 14 of the waste container 10.

An intermediate stay 6 is bridged between the pair of arms 3 and 3. Two hydraulic cylinders 7, 7 are provided between the intermediate stay 6 and the base 1, and a hydraulic motor 8 for driving these is mounted on the base 1.

The tips of the rods 7b of the hydraulic cylinder 7 are rotatably connected to the intermediate stay 6 through bearings 6a (see FIG. 3), and the mounting structure of the cylinder body 7a is based on the clevis type. It is rotatably attached to the base 1. However, the center of rotation of the cylinder body 7a and the rod 7b is parallel to the center of rotation of the arm 3.

In the above construction, the two hydraulic cylinders 7 operate simultaneously, and when the pushing amount of each rod 7b is minimum, as shown in FIG.
The connecting stay 4 on the free end side is located at substantially the same level as the base 1, and the two forks 5 and 5 are arranged in a substantially horizontal posture. Further, in this state, the height h of each fork 5 with respect to the floor surface FL (see FIG. 2) matches the height of the receiving tool 14 of the waste container 10.

On the other hand, when the push-out amount of each rod 7b is maximum, each arm 3 is rotationally moved upward as shown in FIG. 3 (B), and is in a posture tilted upward by about 45 °. In addition to the above configuration, the base 1 has a pair of guides 1b and 1b for laterally aligning the dust container 10 for collecting dust, that is, for aligning the fork 5 and the receiving tool 14. It is provided. Also, a pair of arms 3
Are provided with stoppers 3a and 3b on the rotation center side and the free end side, respectively, for regulating the position of the container body 11 when the dust container 10 is lifted.

Next, the dust collecting method of the present invention will be described together with the operation of the dust container inverting device shown in FIG. First,
By moving the refuse container reversing device of FIG. 1 to the rear of the garbage truck (not shown), or by moving the garbage container reversing device at a predetermined position and moving the garbage truck, The waste container reversing device is arranged at the rear position, and in this state, the waste container 10 is manually attached to the waste container reversing device from the Y direction shown in FIG.
As shown in, the fork 5 of the reversing device is inserted in the receiving tool 14 of the waste container 10.

Next, when the hydraulic motor 8 is driven to push out the rod 7b of the hydraulic cylinder 7, the pair of arms 3 are
By rotating the arm 3 from the state shown in FIG. 3 (A) to the position shown in FIG. 3 (B), the rotation of the arm 3 causes the waste container 10 to be inverted while being lifted by the fork 5, so that the dust inside the container is It is discharged into the garbage box of the garbage truck. At this time, the fork 5 of the reversing device is hooked on the receiver 14 of the container body 11 and the stoppers 3a and 3b are hit against the side surfaces of the container body 11 to regulate the position thereof, so that the dust container 10 may not drop. Absent.

After the above-mentioned reversing and charging work is completed, the rod 7b of the hydraulic cylinder 7 is retracted to move the arm 3
Is rotated in the opposite direction to the position shown in FIG. 3 (A), the garbage container 10 is placed on the floor FL, and then the garbage container 10
A series of dust collection operations are completed by manually moving the to the direction opposite to that at the time of mounting.

In the above example, the waste collection work for a garbage truck has been described, but the waste container reversing device of the present invention can be moved to any place by manual operation or the like. Therefore, it can also be used in other processing devices or processing locations such as a garbage reservoir.

Here, in the above embodiment, the receiving tool 14 is fixed to the caster-attaching auxiliary plate 13, but such receiving tool 14 is the bottom surface 11 of the container body 11.
It may be directly fixed to a. The shape of the receiving tool 14 is not particularly limited as long as the fork 5 of the reversing device can be inserted, and may be, for example, a square pipe in addition to the round pipe shown in FIG. 5, or the container body. It may be a member having a hat-shaped cross section or the like, which becomes a cylindrical receiving member as a whole when attached to the bottom surface of the.

Further, in the present invention, the number of the receiving member and the fork is not particularly limited as long as it is a shape capable of stably lifting and reversing the entire waste container, one for each waste container. Or three or more may be provided.

Furthermore, in the above-mentioned embodiments, a hydraulic cylinder is used as an actuator for giving a rotary motion to the arm 3. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and another drive such as an air cylinder or a geared motor is used. Means may be used.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the waste container reversing device is a compact and movable single device, reversing and loading work can be performed at any place. Even if the garbage collection vehicle or the garbage storage machine is not equipped with a reversing device, by using the garbage container reversing device of the present invention, it is possible to easily and quickly perform the reversing and loading operation of the garbage without manual operation. It can be carried out.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an embodiment of a refuse container inverting device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation explanatory view of the refuse container inverting device of FIG.

[Fig. 3] Similarly, an operation explanatory diagram

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a waste container of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the auxiliary plate 13 and the receiving tool 14 of the waste container in an extracted manner.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Base 1a Casters 1b Guides 2 Supports 2a Rotating shafts 3 Arms 3a, 3b Stoppers 4 Connecting stays 5 Forks 6 Intermediate stays 7 Hydraulic cylinders 7a Cylinder bodies 7b Rods 8 Hydraulic motors 10 Garbage containers 11 Container bodies 11a Bottom 12 Casters 13 Auxiliary plates 14 Receiver

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A method of collecting dust in a waste container, wherein a caster for transportation is provided on a bottom portion of the container body having an opened upper portion, the method being supported by a tubular receiver provided on a bottom surface of the container body. A fork for use, and then the fork is rotated about a horizontal axis by a rotating mechanism to lift the container body and turn it upside down, so that the dust inside the container can be discharged into a predetermined dust box. Characteristic garbage collection method. 2. A device for inverting a waste container, wherein a caster for transportation is provided on the bottom of a container body having an open upper part, the device comprising: a support provided on a movable base; and a support provided on the support. An arm rotatably supported on the upper part about a horizontal axis, and a cylindrical shape provided on the bottom surface of the container body in a shape extending from the free end side of the arm in a direction substantially orthogonal to the rotation center of the arm. A refuse container reversing device, comprising: a fork having a shape that can be inserted into a receiving tool; and an actuator that imparts rotational movement to the arm. 3. A waste container in which a caster for transportation is provided on a bottom portion of a container body having an opened upper portion, for inserting a fork used when lifting or reversing the waste container into a bottom surface of the container body. A garbage container provided with a tubular receiver.