US2452751A - Apparatus for receiving and dumping refuse - Google Patents

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WARREN D. HARDY ATTCI RN EYS Patented Nov. 2, 1948 APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND DUMPIN G REFUSE Warren D. Hardy, Roanoke, Va.

Application November 6, 1946, Serial No. 708,088

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to `an improved apparatus for receiving and dumping refuse and more particularly to an elevated -container for garbage and ashes, provided with elevating means for raising and dumping the refuse, and means for emptying the container through a chute directly in-to a collecting vehicle.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment oi my invention according to the best mode I have thus far devised, but it will be understood that various changes and alterations may be made in the exemplied structure within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the apparatus of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevational view.

Fig. 41s a top plan view.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view at line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is ra detail view of the arrangement for the eleva-ting bracket; and Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view thereof at line 'i-'I of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a detail view of the chute and the container doors for releasing the refuse therein.

Referring now to the draw-ings I utilize a skeleton framework including the vertical posts 2, horizontal bars 4, and braces yI mount-ed upon concrete bases B.

Atop this framework which may be of suitable height to prevent -a-ccess thereto, I provide a hopper having sections IU and I2 separated by a wall or partition I3 as for ashes and garbage and the common bottom I4 of these sections is shaped as shown. Aligned with the sloping bottom I4 is a stationary chute I6 having Iconverging side walls I8 and 20, and an extension chute 22 is pivoted thereto as at 24, and raised by rope 25 on sheave 25. Doors or gates 2S and 28 for the hopper sections Iil and I2 are suitably guided and may be raised by pulling down on the ropes 30 and 32 which extend over sheaves 34 and 36, dumping the conten-ts through the extended chute 22 into a waiting collection truck.

The rear walls 38 :and 49 of the containers are provided with horizontally pivoted swinging doors 42 and. 44 which close under their own weight, and to charge the containers I provide Ian elevating mechanism conveying bucket 4S supported by rope 48 through sheave Eil which is freely movable on the rod 52.- 'Ihe rear of the frame is fashioned with three vertical guides 54, 56 and 58 forming two juxtapostioned guideways for the bucket and when ashes or garbage is placed in the bucket, it is aligned so that lugs 59 engage in the proper pa1r of guides, and the sheave 5E! is adjusted accordingly.

The carrier is -then raised by rope G8, and when the lugs reach the upper closed ends of the guide continued pulling 4on the rope i8 will trip the bucket as seen in Fig. 2 thereby dumping the buckets into the selected section of the hopper.

The hopper lsections Ill and l2 are formed with baiile plates 62 and 5d to prevent lodging of refuse in the corners and it will be apparent that the use of the apparatus of my invention will obviate the need for garbage and ash cans, and will eliminate the handling of such refuse by collection personnel.

Dogs and cats will be unable to reach the contents, and the result of the use will be an improvement in health and ease of removal.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a domestic refuse elevator, the combination which comprises a vertically disposed frame rectangularly shaped in plan having posts at the four corners supported by suitable bracing elements, a hopper having a sloping floor with sloping sides and having a longitudinally disposed partition therein dividing the interior in-to separate sections, said hopper supported lby lthe frame in spaced relation above the ground, a plurality of vertically disposed parallel rails providing upwardly extending tracks on the side of the frame corresponding with the high side of the hopper, a supporting bar suspended above the upper end of the hopper and extended laterally to bridge the said tracks. a pulley block slidably mounted on the bar, a carrier having a bail on the upper end and extensions on one sid-e positioned to coact with the rails of either of the tracks whereby the rails hold the carrier against outward movement away from the frame, trips at the upper ends of each of said tracks for actuating the carrier to dumping position, as the carrier reaches the upper ends of the tracks whereby the vcontents of the carrier are dumped into the sections of the hopper respectively, a comm-on chute pivotally mounted on the lower side of the hopper and positioned to receive materials from each section thereof, gates in the sections of the hopper and on the low side thereof, and suitable cables for operating the carrier, chute and gates of the hopper.

WARREN D. HARDY.

(References on following page) REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Number Name Date Moetteli Aug. 28, 1923 Coughlin Aug. 2, 1938 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Germany Feb. 25, 1946 Germany Feb. 29, 1940

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