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US 4,358,238 AGranted
Collection, storage and disposal system for refuse, trash or any other applicable materials
AssigneeRon Freeman
InventorLewis C. Ely
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Abstract
A train of tandem arranged, wheeled, refuse receptacles, pulled by a prime mover along a path, are successively moved over a dump chute to drop their contents when their discharge doors are successively tripped, the contents falling downwardly through the chute and into the entrance opening of an underground compactor. The reciprocating ram of the compactor passes the contents sidewise into the awaiting container of a refuse collection vehicle, compacting the contents therein.
Claims17
A garbage disposal system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of garbage receptacles each including (i) a body having side walls with a top opening through which the receptacle is filled and a bottom opening through which the contents are released, (ii) wheel means for each of said receptacles;
- (iii) opposed door means hingedly secured to said side walls on said body for temporarily closing said bottom opening;
- and (iiii) detent means for latching said door means in closed positions;
- and (iiiii) means for coupling said receptacles together in tendem for movement as a train;
- (b) means defining a pit with an open top and an open side;
- (c) a compactor within said pit;
- (d) means defining a chute within said pit for said compactor;
- (e) a roof for said open top across which said receptacles can be successively moved when they are arranged in tandem, said roof having an opening therein;
- (f) tripping means for tripping the detent means of each of said receptacles as each receptacle is positioned over the opening of said top for permitting said door means of such receptacle to open for releasing the contents of said receptacle into said chute and then into said compactor;
- (g) container means removably positioned adjacent to the discharge opening of said compactor for receiving the contents of said compactor therethrough;
- (h) means for actuating said compactor to urge such contents into said container and for compacting such contents;
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- (i) means for closing said opening when said pit is not in use.
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A garbage disposal system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of garbage receptacles each including (i) a body having side walls with a top opening through which the receptacle is filled and a bottom opening through which the contents are released, (ii) wheel means for each of said receptacles;
- (iii) opposed door means hingedly secured to said side walls on said body for temporarily said bottom opening;
- and (iiii) detent means for attaching door means in closed positions;
- and (iiiii) means for coupling said receptacles together in tendem for movement as a train;
- (b) means defining a pit with an open top and an open side;
- (c) a compactor within said pit;
- (c) means defining a chute within said pit for said compactor;
- (e) a roof for said open top across which said receptacles can be successively moved when they are arranged in tandem, said roof having an opening therein;
- (f) tripping means for tripping the detent means of each of said receptacles as each receptacle is positioned over the opening of said top for permitting said door means of said receptacle to open for releasing the contents of said receptacle into said chute and then into said compactor;
- extending positions to inwardly extending closed positions closing said bottom opening;
- (d) detent means for engaging the inner corners of said doors when they are closed;
- (e) means for tripping said detent means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.