US 5,203,664 AGranted

Waste container for handling with front loading means

AssigneeVecto Hydraulic A/S

InventorTorben B. Jensen

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Abstract

The container is adapted to be lifted and swung upwards and rearwards across the driver's cab of the vehicle to an emptying position over a collecting receptacle on the vehicle; the container being provided with one or more cover members which can be opened for emptying and/or filling is pivotably and movable connected at the upper side edge portions of the container such that when the cover plate member is turned upwards, for example, when the container is standing on the ground, may be moved and pivoted away from the container in order to open one side thereof. The cover plate member, when turned downwards, for example, during the emptying of the container, automatically during movement may be pivoted away from the container in order to empty the container, and when the cover plate member, is again turned upwards, for example, after the container is emptied, the container automatically is pivoted back, closing the container.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A waste container for transporting and emptying waste by being lifted and swung upwards and rearwards to a collecting receptacle of a vehicle, the waste container comprising a container body;

a cover plate member;
insertion means for accepting lifting forks of the vehicle;
and engagement and pivot means for pivotally connecting said cover plate member with said container body,
wherein the cover plate member, when the waste container is placed in an upright position, is transversely slid and pivoted from the container body to open the top side thereof so that the waste is placed in the waste container, and
wherein the waste container further comprises restriction means pivotally connected between the container body and the cover plate member to restrict the pivoting of the cover plate member with respect to the container body and to force the cover plate member to be transversely slid and pivoted over a rearside of the container body, when the waste container is pivoted to an upside-down position automatically pivot open the cover plate member from the container, and wherein the cover plate member, when the waste container is swung to the upright position, automatically is transversely slid and pivoted closed with respect to the container body by gravitational pull.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.