Street sweeper

A street sweeper comprising:

• a prime mover having a pair of prime mover lifting arms;
• a front mounted sweeper attachment mounted to said pair of prime mover lifting arms in front of said prime mover and adapted to be raised and lowered by said prime mover lifting arms;
• said sweeper attachment having a brush compartment holding a rotatable sweeping brush therein and a debris collecting hopper hingedly attached to the front of said brush compartment, said debris collecting hopper having a contact support structure aligned with a brush compartment support structure to form a seal between the debris collection hopper and the brush compartment when the debris hopper is in a closed position and said sweeper attachment having a hopper lifting arm having two ends movably attached to said brush compartment at one end thereof and to said debris collecting hopper at the other end thereof, and the sweeper attachment having a hopper lifting hydraulic cylinder attached between said brush compartment and said hopper lifting arm at a point over said debris collecting hopper for raising and lowering said debris collecting hopper and for locking said debris collecting hopper in a closed position by actuation of said hopper lifting hydraulic cylinder with said debris collecting hopper open side aligned with the front of said brush compartment for receiving debris swept up by said brush and said debris collecting hopper adapted to be raised by actuation of said hopper lifting hydraulic cylinder to an open position for dumping the contents therefrom when said sweeper attachment is raised by said prime mover lifting arms;
• wherein said front mounted sweeper attachment debris collecting hopper can be held to said brush compartment by said hopper lifting hydraulic cylinder for receiving debris swept up by said brush and remotely opened when said sweeper attachment is raised by said pair of prime mover lifting arms to dump collected debris therefrom.