US 4,406,573 AGranted

Device for loading and compacting rubbish in a fixed or mobile receptacle

OwnerMarcel Colininventor

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Abstract

A device for loading and compacting rubbish in a receptacle includes a foldable billfold-type panel having upper and lower pivotably articulated sections and a sweeping element articulated to the end of the lower section and pivotably drivable, by actuators, in a trajectory about the lower section end. When the sections are disposed in a substantially folded orientation relative to one another the sweeping element is pivoted upwardly about the lower section end to permit rubbish to be loaded into a receiving portion of the receptacle. Thereafter, the sections are moved to a substantially co-planar orientation where the sweeping element is pivoted downwardly and about the lower section end to sweep the rubbish behind the sections. Finally, the sections are returned to the substantially folded orientation whereupon the rubbish behind the sections is compressed and compacted.

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Dependent claims

Device for loading and compacting rubbish and garbage in a fixed or mobile receptacle or compartment having a receiving hopper, comprising:

a sweeping component in association with the receiving hopper, said hopper including a loading opening;
a billfold panel means for covering said loading opening and including
(a) a first panel upon which said sweeping component is mounted and pivots;
(b) a second panel;
and
(c) a transverse spindle about which said first and second panels are pivotably articulated;
said billfold panel means being suspended from the top of the receptacle,
said first and second panels acting to close said receptacle above said loading opening when said panels are disposed in a substantially planar orientation relative to one another, wherein sad sweeping component sweeps rubbish and garbage in said hopper into said receptacle, and
said first and second panels acting to compress the rubbish and garbage thus swept into said receptacle when said panels are disposed in a folded position, about said spindle, relative to one another.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.