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US 6,123,500 AGranted
Packer wear shoes
AssigneeMcNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsGarwin B. McNeilus, William P. Bartlett
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Abstract
This apparatus relates to improved replaceable wear shoes for use with the slide guides of rear-loading refuse trucks.
Claims24
In a vehicle mounted compacting apparatus including a linearly reciprocating refuse treating mechanism and a packing mechanism designed to operate along and be carried by a slide guide system including spaced parallel structural slide guides:
- (a) a vehicle body having a pair of spaced sidewalls and a floor, wherein each of said sidewalls is provided with an opening therethrough;
- (b) a pair of said spaced parallel structural slide guides mounted in said vehicle body, one abutting each of said sidewalls and defining an inward directed recess, each said opening provided through said sidewalls, being such that it communicates with the recess of one of said slide guides;
- (c) a reciprocating mechanism designed to operate along and be carried by said slide guides in said body;
- (d) at least two wear shoes adapted to carry said reciprocating mechanism, one of which is disposed in the recess of each slide guide for supporting one side of said reciprocating mechanism along the recess of said slide guide, wherein said reciprocating mechanism includes attaching devices to carry said wear shoes and wherein said wear shoes slip on and off of said attaching devices but are not fixed to said mechanism and, when aligned therewith, are accessible through a corresponding one of said access openings;
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- (e) a plurality of removable covers, one associated with each of said openings and each of which, when opened, allows an aligned wear shoe to be slipped off and on therethrough.
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In a vehicle mounted reciprocating refuse packing mechanism designed to operate along and be carried by spaced parallel slide guides:
- (a) a rear-loading refuse vehicle body including a storage volume having spaced sidewalls and a floor, a tailgate charging section having sidewalls and a material receiving section and including a packing mechanism;
- (b) a pair of said spaced parallel slide guides formed as recesses in the sidewalls of said tailgate, said slide guides including outside access openings provided in said sidewalls, one located in each slide guide;
- (c) a reciprocating slide mechanism designed to carry and cooperate with a pivoting packing mechanism, said reciprocating slide mechanism having attaching devices to carry load bearing wear shoes slide mechanism being designed to be reciprocally carried by said wear shoes in said slide guides;
- (d) a packing mechanism designed to be carried by said slide mechanism along said slide guides in said tailgate;
- (e) at least one pair of spaced wear shoes each one of which is disposed to carry one side of said reciprocating slide mechanism slidably in one of said slide guides wherein said wear shoes are configured to slip on and off said attaching devices but are not fixed to said slide mechanism;
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- (f) a removable access cover associated with each of said access openings and which, when opened, enables direct access for slipping aligned wear shoes off and on for removal and replacement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.