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Class 298/1B - Dump body includes flexible or movable bottom part to facilitate dumping


Subclass of Class 298 - Land vehicles: dumping
No. of patents: 51
Last issue date: 06/19/2007


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7232189Waste concrete disposal box
A container for disposing of waste concrete provides a pivoting front wall assembly such that lifting the container by the front wall assembly breaks the bond between hardened concrete and the container facilitating removal of the waste concrete. ...
06/19/2007
7185953Surface sweeping machine with a dump door and chute actuating mechanism
A dump hopper for a road sweeper includes a dump door, a debris guide chute, and an actuating mechanism for pivoting the dump door and debris chute between travel and dumping positions. The dump door is sandwiched between a hopper and the guide chute in the travel p...
03/06/2007
7146914Identity preserved container
An identity preserved container for storage, transportation, and segregation of a flowable cargo is provided. The container comprises a frame supporting an enclosure with a top, bottom, side walls, front wall, and a back wall. A liner is provided and secured to an i...
12/12/2006
7111908Material/equipment handling assembly
A trailer assembly includes a body having a plurality of sidewalls for defining a cavity therebetween. Selected sidewalls are pivotally coupled to the body and selectively adaptable between loading and unloading positions and another sidewall defines a substantially...
09/26/2006
7077404Device to move heavy items
A device to move heavy items made up of a substantially flat rectangular body used to carry heavy items, a handle assembly with two handles perpendicularly attached to an H-shaped handle stand that is perpendicularly attached to the proximal end of the substantially...
07/18/2006
6960055Cross member-less dump truck body
A dump truck body including a receptacle defined by a floor and, extending from the floor, first and second side walls on opposite sides of the floor, and a front wall and a tailgate, located on opposite sides of the floor and extending between the side walls. The f...
11/01/2005
6834917Self-discharging freight container for bulk solids
A self-discharging freight container for bulk solids of the type which discharge by tilting to that a hinged wall and a floor become coplanar, as a container braced by a pair of triangulating braces adjacent the hinge. Rams extending from the static frame push again...
12/28/2004
6824223Utility cart unloading system
A utility cart unloading system that is both functional and necessary. A canvas sling is attached to a steel tube which is installed into a frame that fits on the top rim of a cart. Rotation clockwise/counterclockwise of the steel tube is provided by an electrical t...
11/30/2004
6764138Automatic actuating baffle for a dump box
An automatic actuated baffle for a dump box includes a baffle, a first actuating link, a second actuating link, and an actuation device. One end of the baffle is pivotally attached to a side wall of the dump box and the other end of the baffle is pivotally attached ...
07/20/2004
6413036Waste concrete container
A waste container for the disposition of waste concrete comprising a bottom floor section having a major dimension extending longitudinally of the container, front and rear lateral dimensions which are substantially less than the major longitudinal dimens...
07/02/2002
6206476Waste concrete container
A waste container for the disposition of waste concrete comprising a bottom floor section having a major dimension extending longitudinally of the container, front and rear lateral dimensions which are substantially less than the major longitudinal dimens...
03/27/2001
6189976Spreader pan for a gravity discharge trailer box
This invention comprises a laterally extending spreader pan having a short longitudinal dimension of about six inches, pivotally mounted on a lateral shaft secured to a trailer or truck box adjacent to the rear edge of the box floor. The spreader pan is p...
02/20/2001
6099232Device for loading a small vehicle or other load onto a pickup truck
The invention is a loading and unloading device for transporting small recreational or utility vehicles in a pickup truck. The invention comprises two stationary rails mounted on the bed of a truck. A ramp is slidably and pivotally attached to the station...
08/08/2000
5769501Multi-compartmentalized dumping body with movable floor and bulkhead latch
A multiple compartment storage body for a refuse collection vehicle includes a floor, a roof, a plurality of walls extending between the floor and the roof, a partition and a bulkhead latch. The partition has a first opposing end portion pivotally coupled...
06/23/1998
5749630Gravity unloading mechanism
A gravity unloading method for cargo box having split bottom plates. A pair of rectangular split bottom plates abut at one of the long sides of the bottom plates and pivoted near the other of the long sides thereof on the bottom of the cargo box. Force is...
05/12/1998
5716103Multi-compartmentalized dumping body with segmented bulkhead
A multiple compartment storage body for a refuse collection vehicle includes a floor, a roof, a plurality of walls extending between the floor and the roof, a partition and a bulkhead latch. The partition has a first opposing end portion pivotally coupled...
02/10/1998
5599071Multi-compartmentalized dumping body with movable floor
A multiple compartment storage body for a refuse collection vehicle includes a floor, a roof, a plurality of walls and a partition. The plurality of walls extend between the floor and the roof and include a front wall, a rear wall, and side walls between ...
02/04/1997
5588711Side dumping container
A container 10 for use in the transportation of goods mounted or mountable on a load carrying vehicle 12. The container 10 includes a floor 18 and a pair of opposed side walls 20, 22 each of which is supported for displacement about a pivotal axis adjacen...
12/31/1996
5520496Conveyor sheet cargo container and method
This invention generally relates to cargo containers; and more specifically, to cargo containers of the type from which bulk cargo is discharged by pulling a bottom or floor liner out from the container....
05/28/1996
5482425Conveyor sheet cargo container and method
An unloading apparatus for use with a cargo container. The unloading apparatus having a supporting frame with a mandrel rotatably supported by the supporting frame and laterally extending across the frame. The unloading apparatus having devices to detacha...
01/09/1996
5456521Unloading gate for a dump truck body
An unloading gate for a dump truck body which is movably mounted on rails in the dump truck body so that it can be actuated to scrape and clean the body during unloading and which has a positive locking means for locking the unloading gate in a fixed posi...
10/10/1995
5454685Conveyor sheet cargo container
Unloading Apparatus for Use with a Cargo Container. The cargo container defines an interior cargo space and has a floor, left and right side walls, a front wall between the left and right side walls at the end of the floor and an opening at another end of...
10/03/1995
5447361Portable dumping insert for a pickup truck
A detachable dumping apparatus comprises a frame including a pair of spaced-apart elongate rails. A rearwardly disposed hitch is attached to the frame and adjustably attachable to the rear bumper of the pickup truck. A plurality of adjustable biasable sta...
09/05/1995
5437499Convertible truck body
A dump truck having a dump body with a central longitudinally extending conveyor and elongated internal panels moveable between upright storage positions next to the opposed parallel side walls of the truck body and inclined hopper positions extending dow...
08/01/1995
5407390Basket structure for a cotton harvester
A cotton basket is pivotally connected to a harvester frame for rocking about a fore-and-aft extending axis located a substantial distance above the basket floor on the side of the basket opposite the dump side. Simple single beam mast structures at the f...
04/18/1995
5312162Particulate handlers
An improved particulate handler that includes one or more elastic sheets that are particularly effective in facilitating the easy and complete removal of particulate from transporters or containers such as railroad cars, dump trucks, chutes and the like. ...
05/17/1994
5265940Flexible bowl tip truck
A tipping system for use in a vehicle including a container having an upper perimetrical frame with an open top and a bowl made of flexible material is suspended from the frame and including means to interact with the bowl in the discharge position to con...
11/30/1993
5228750Rotating head frame and load ejector with controlled rotation system
A rotating head frame and load ejector assembly having a pair of opposing and parallel rotating side arms which can rotate between a loading and dumping position is disclosed. The bottom ends of the side arms are pivotally attached to the side walls of th...
07/20/1993
5040807Combined beach chair and wheelbarrow apparatus
A combined wheelbarrow and beach chair apparatus (10) comprising pivotally attached framework units (11) and (12) having a flexible cargo unit (14) suspended between them and a pivoted wheel assembly unit (13) attached to one of the framework units (11) a...
08/20/1991
5002340Bed cleaner for dump trucks
A bed cleaner for dump trucks utilizing a scraping carriage located in the bed of a dump truck and operated by cables connected to a winch assembly to dislodge and remove adhering materials from the dump bed while the dump bed is in an inclined position. ...
03/26/1991
4995773Spreader and dump truck construction
A lightweight salt and sand spreader dump truck box having a first sub-frame with elongated longitudinal channel members formed from sheet metal and a conveyor frame on which a conveyor is mounted longitudinally of the dump box at the floor thereof near a...
02/26/1991
4962966Automatic tailgate assembly
In a tailgate assembly for a dump box of the type comprising a front inner section and a rear outer section adapted for telescopic movement one with respect to the other with the inner section slidably engaging an interior surface of the outer section. Th...
10/16/1990
4917558Variable-volume bin for storing and dispensing particulate materials
A device and method for holding and delivering a load of particulate material such as wood blocks, wood chips--dry or moist--, and briquettes. A main bin has an open upper end, closed side walls, and a closed bottom wall. A pair of drive shafts are journa...
04/17/1990
4861215Bulk storage bin with pneumatically assisted discharge
A bin for storing and handling bulk material includes a fill opening through which material is introduced into the bin for storage and a discharge opening in a bottom portion of the bin through which material stored in the bin is discharged. The bin inclu...
08/29/1989
4854801Bulk storage bin with pneumatically assisted discharge
A bin for storing and handling bulk material includes a fill opening through which material is introduced into the bin for storage and a discharge opening in a bottom portion of the bin through which material stored in the bin is discharged. The bin inclu...
08/08/1989
4722655Bulk storage bin for freight vehicle or other storage facility
A bin for storing and handling bulk material includes a fill opening through which material is introduced into the bin for storage and a discharge opening in a bottom portion of the bin through which material stored in the bin is discharged. The bin is er...
02/02/1988
4691959Refuse pickup and compactor body
A refuse compactor body has a tank section of an irregular polygonal right section that is uniform from end to end. The tank wall is made of rectangular pieces of thin very high tensile strength sheet metal and externally reinforced at spaced intervals lo...
09/08/1987
4637320Articulated gondola railcar
The railcar includes two car units interconnected by a drawbar. The drawbar and conventional outboard end couplers are mounted at the locations spaced apart along the longitudinal center lines of the car units. Each car unit is made up of a gondola carbod...
01/20/1987
4629390Truck bed unloader
A device which unloads materials from a vehicle cargo area such as the bed of a pickup truck. A pair of mounting brackets are bolted to opposite sides of the vehicle bed. Pivoted to the brackets are the front ends of rigid frame arms which carry a rotatab...
12/16/1986
4601631Unloading system for street sweeper
A motorized vehicular vacuum street sweeper (2) has a hopper (12) for receiving suctioned debris and includes unloading devices (36) provided by a flexible sheet-like wrapper (38) in the hopper forming a receptacle cavity (76). The wrapper is flexed by ac...
07/22/1986
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