US 4,722,658 AGranted

Loading apparatus for emptying containers into a common receptacle

AssigneeZoller-Kipper GmbH

InventorsRenate Wurtz, Jakob Naab

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Abstract

A loading apparatus for emptying containers into a common receptacle comprises a pick-up attachment and pick-up support for the containers to be emptied, which is further structured and improved, so that the pick-up attachment and the pick-up support are mounted with a limited movability on a dump frame of the loading apparatus in order to be movable toward the container to be picked up and from the properly deposited container. As the container is raised from its location, the pick-up attachment and the pick-up support are structured so as to be brought into a standard position with respect to the dump frame and are restrained in this standard position. The operations can be observed or also automatically controlled by electrical container contacts operated by the container and mounted on the pick-up attachment and the pick-up support.

In a loading apparatus for emptying a garbage container into a common storage bin, comprising a garbage truck, a first dump frame mounted to said garbage truck, swingable arms pivotable at one end on said first dump frame about a horizontal first dump axis, a second dump frame mounted on said arms to pivot about a second dump axis parallel to and spaced from said first dump axis, a pick-up attachment and support engageable with said container and connected by at least one mount with said second dump frame, and at least one guide mechanism and at least one drive mechanism for said arms and said second dump frame for providing lifting and dumping motions of a container engaged by said pick-up attachment and support, the improvement wherein:

at least one of said mounts for said pick-up attachment and support is provided with means enabling at least one degree of freedom of limited movability of said pick-up attachment and support with respect to said second dump frame for self alignment of said pick-up attachment and support into a pick-up position with respect to a container located outside the garbage truck in a position of said container to be gripped by said pick-up attachment and support to be emptied;
said guide mechanism includes at least one alignment mechanism on said second dump frame for aligning said pick-up attachment and support with said container engaged thereby and raised from the ground with a fixed standard position of the container with reference to said second dump frame;
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said guide mechanism further includes at least one restraining mechanism on said second dump frame engageable with said pick-up attachment and support when said pick-up attachment and support is in a fixed standard position to provide an interlocked engagement between said pick-up attachment and support and said second dump frame for raising of a container engaged by said pick-up attachment and support from said pick-up position to a predetermined second raised position.

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Application

06/767,308Filed 19 Aug 1985

Priority

DE 343064321 Aug 1984

Granted

2 Feb 1988

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Classification4 codes

B65F 3/045
With additional means for keeping the receptacle substantially vertical during raising: four-bar linkages
B65F 2003/024
The discharging means comprising elements for holding the receptacle: means for locking the rim
B65F 2003/0296
Means mounted on the vehicle for supporting the refuse receptacle in the tipping position: the supporting means mounted on the discharging means
B65F
Gathering or removal of domestic or like refuse

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