US 5,342,164 AGranted

Waste collection method

AssigneeExpert Disposal Service, Inc.

InventorsRussell C. Kinney, Donald C. Kinney, Lyle Paullin, Richard Paullin, Jeffrey W. Parrott, Donald Smith

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Abstract

A method of collecting mixed trash and recyclable waste separated from the mixed trash from several pick up locations and transporting the same to their respective delivery destinations. A conventional garbage truck and a recyclable waste collection vehicle are parked at a central location. A motorized satellite vehicle with a mixed trash bin and a recyclable waste bin is driven from one pick up location to another, and mixed trash and recyclable waste at the pick up locations are loaded manually into appropriate bins on the satellite vehicle. The satellite vehicle is driven to the parked garbage truck and the parked recyclable waste collection vehicle where the bins are unloaded. The garbage truck and the recyclable waste collection vehicle can be driven to final delivery destinations for the mixed trash and the recyclable waste, respectively. The method also contemplates using the bins of the satellite vehicle for collecting two segregated waste types. A parked recyclable waste collection vehicle with a container partitioned into two separate volumes can then be used to collect and transport the two segregated waste types.

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Dependent claims

A method for collecting mixed trash and recyclable waste separated from the mixed trash from several pick up locations and transporting the mixed trash and recyclable waste to final delivery destinations, the method comprising the steps of:

a) parking a garbage truck having a mixed trash container;
b) parking a recyclable waste collection vehicle having a recyclable waste container;
c) driving a motorized satellite vehicle to one or more pick up locations, the motorized satellite vehicle having a mixed trash bin with a volume smaller than the mixed trash container on the garbage truck and a recyclable waste bin with a volume smaller than the recyclable waste container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
d) manually loading mixed trash at each pick up location into the mixed trash bin, and recyclable waste at each pick up location into the recyclable waste bin;
e) driving the motorized satellite vehicle to the parked garbage truck, and mechanically transferring mixed trash from the mixed trash bin on the satellite vehicle into the mixed trash container on the garbage truck;
f) driving the motorized satellite vehicle to the parked recyclable waste collection vehicle, and mechanically transferring recyclable waste from the recyclable waste bin on the satellite vehicle into the recyclable waste container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
g) repeating steps c) through f) to collect mixed trash in the mixed trash container on the garbage truck and recyclable waste in the recyclable waste container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
h) transporting mixed trash collected in the mixed trash container on the garbage truck to a final delivery destination for the mixed trash by driving the garbage truck to the final delivery destination for the mixed trash;
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i) transporting recyclable waste collected in the recyclable waste collection vehicle to a final delivery destination for the recyclable waste by driving the recyclable waste vehicle to the final delivery destination for the recyclable waste.

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A method for collecting at least two types of waste separated from one another from several pick up locations and transporting the separated waste to final delivery destinations, the method comprising the steps of:

a) parking a recyclable waste collection vehicle, the vehicle having a container partitioned into a first and a second volume;
b) driving a motorized satellite vehicle to one or more pick up locations, the motorized satellite vehicle having a first and second bin where the first bin has a volume smaller than the first volume on the recyclable waste collection vehicle and the second bin has a volume smaller than the second volume on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
c) manually loading waste of a first type located at each pick up location into the first waste bin on the motorized satellite vehicle, and waste of a second type at each pick up location into the second bin on the motorized satellite vehicle;
d) driving the motorized satellite vehicle to the parked recyclable waste collection vehicle, and mechanically transferring waste of the first type from the first bin on the satellite vehicle into the first volume of the partitioned container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle, and mechanically transferring waste of the second type from the second bin on the satellite vehicle into the second volume of the partitioned container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
e) repeating steps b) through d) to collect waste of the first type in the first volume of the partitioned container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle and waste of the second type in the second volume of the partitioned container on the recyclable waste collection vehicle;
f) transporting the first waste type to a delivery destination for the first waste type by driving the recyclable waste collection vehicle to the delivery destination for the first waste type and dumping the first waste type from the first volume of the partitioned container;
and
g) transporting the second waste type to a delivery destination for the second waste type by driving the recyclable waste collection vehicle to the delivery destination for the second waste type and dumping the second waste type from the second volume of the partitioned container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/027,296Filed 4 Mar 1993 · continuation
Priority: 29 May 1991
Granted: 30 Aug 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B65F 3/26
With devices for unloading the tank of a refuse vehicle: by tipping the tank
B65F 3/001
Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse: for segregated refuse collecting, e.g. vehicles with several compartments
B65F 3/08
With means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto: platform elevators or hoists with guides or runways for raising or tipping receptacles
B65F 3/18
With devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle: with endless conveyors, e.g. elevators

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Serial706,921Parent of this continuation · filed 29 May 1991
US 5,252,020 AParent of this continuation
US 5,342,164 AThis patent

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