Grapple truck with a side loader

A grapple truck with a side loader comprising:

• a truck with a front-end cab, front and rear wheels, an elongated truck chassis and a truck bed open top box movably mounted on said chassis, said truck box defined by longitudinal opposing bed sidewalls, and further defined by a forward wall behind said cab and a rear wall at the end of the open top box;
• a recess extending inboard into said truck bed along a forward portion of one sidewall defined by opposing fore and aft lateral recess walls and an inboard recess backwall;
• a substantially J-shaped side loader vertically and pivotally movable in and above said recess, said side loader forming at its lower extremity a debris collection scoop and said side loader having an upper leg plate extending from said scoop to its upper extremity which upper extremity pivots with respect to said one sidewall;
• said scoop open substantially beneath said one sidewall and recessed at or inboard a plane defined by said one sidewall, said scoop having a loading outboard facing terminal edge substantially at or below an upper wheel line of defined by front and rear wheels beneath said one sidewall, thereby adapted to permit manual loading of debris into said scoop over said terminal edge;
• a power lift system to first raise said side loader from a lower, loading position and thereafter pivot said side loader to an inverted upper dump position whereat said scoop discharges debris into said open top box;
• an articulated boom having a boom support mounted on said chassis and an elongated articulated arm swivel mounted on said boom support, said articulated arm having at least three degrees of motion including a longitudinal arm extension, said articulated boom and arm terminating in a grapple jaw, said grapple jaw having a closed position adapted to grab and capture debris and having an open position adapted to release debris into said open top box;
• a boom power and control system for said articulated boom, articulated arm and grapple jaw and adapted to extend said grapple jaw above and beyond said open top box;
• said articulated boom and articulated arm having a stored position with a foreshortened longitudinal arm span wherein said grapple jaw rests atop a truck box floor and said articulated boom and articulated arm are longitudinally and laterally within said open top box.

A side loader and bin carrier movably mounted on a grapple truck, said grapple truck providing a controllable source of motive power adapted to move said carrier substantially up and down with respect to an elongated truck frame and invert said carrier over said grapple truck, said grapple truck having an elongated open top truck bed container on said truck frame, said truck bed container having truck bed container sidewalls extending longitudinally over said truck bed, a recess extending inboard into said truck bed along a forward portion of one sidewall defined by opposing fore and aft lateral recess walls and an inboard recess backwall, said grapple truck including a grapple articulated arm terminating in grapple jaws which grapple articulated arm and jaws extend over said open top truck bed container in a first stabilized, stationary position and, in at least one operating position, laterally swing away from the open top truck bed container to seize and grapple debris below and laterally disposed away from said open top truck bed container, the side loader and bin carrier comprising:

• an integral side loader and bin carrier having a common back plate, said carrier having an open top side loader and a debris bin vertical transport, said common back plate forming an inboard wall of said side loader and a vertical support plate for said bin vertical transport, said side loader and bin carrier vertically and pivotally movable in and above said recess;
• said open top side loader having opposing, laterally outboard extending sidewalls and an outer facing wall spaced apart and opposite from said inboard wall of said side loader such that a containment side loader is formed by said side loader inboard wall, said opposing lateral sidewalls and said outer facing wall;
• said debris bin vertical transport having, on said vertical support plate, an upper bin hook and a lower bin hook adapted to capture complementary debris bin hook-bars;
• forward and rearward rollers carried by said common back plate;
• forward and rearward track channels adapted to capture and movably retain therein respective forward and rearward rollers for said side loader and bin carrier, said track channels affixed forward and aft on outboard segments of said one truck bed sidewall, each track channel having a substantially straight vertical ascent run and an upper loop run which loop run curves over an upper edge of said one truck bed sidewall;
• forward and rearward arm sets movably connected to said common back plate, at least one powered arm set having at least two articulating motive arms movably coupled at one end to said common back plate and coupled, at an opposite end, to respective pivotal axles, said pivotal axles mounted adjacent said upper edge of said one truck bed sidewall, the pivotal axle for the powered arm set being a drive axle;
• a knuckle transmission coupled between said controllable source of motive power and said powered arm set via said drive axle and providing rotational movement to said drive axle thereby raising said side loader and bin carrier from said load position, when said carrier is at its lowermost position, to a dump position when said carrier is overturned at its uppermost position above and laterally atop said open top truck bed;
• in said dump position, said open top side loader clearing said recess backwall, thereby permitting said side loader and bin carrier to clear said recess backwall during carrier transition between said load position to said dump position.