Mobile container cleaning system
AssigneeRainbow Conversion Technologies, LLC
InventorsBRUCE SHUMAN, Jerry Moffatt, Bruce Atwell, Robert J. Romacly, Glenn A. Romacly
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Abstract
A movable trash container cleaning system includes a vehicle with a spray booth and a movable access door for enclosing the spray booth. A manipulating arm is provided for engaging and lifting a container disposed outside a vehicle and inverting a container inside the spray booth. A sprayer is provided and disposed for spraying the fluid onto inside surfaces of the inverted container to clean the container and dislodge the solids. A stationary platform is provided for receiving the dislodge solids wash from the inverted container and the ram packer moves to dislodge the solids from the platform into a storage chamber in the vehicle.
Claims6
A mobile trash container cleaning system comprising:
- a vehicle;
- a spray booth, disposed on said vehicle;
- a movable access door for enclosing said spray booth;
- a manipulating arm for engaging and lifting a container disposed outside of said vehicle and inverting said container inside the spray booth;
- a sprayer disposed for spraying fluid onto inside surfaces of the inverted container to clean the container and dislodge solids;
- a stationary platform for receiving the dislodged solids washed from said inverted container;
- and
- a ram packer for moving the dislodged solids from the platform and into a storage chamber in said vehicle.
A method for cleaning a trash container, said method comprising:
- picking up the container outside of a vehicle;
- moving the container to an inverted orientation within a spray booth disposed in said vehicle;
- enclosing said spray booth;
- spraying fluid onto inside surface of the inverted container;
- separating solids from the sprayed fluid;
- and
- compacting the separated solids.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.