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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6234739 | Compaction mechanism for refuse and recyclables collection vehicles A compaction mechanism for mounting to a storage body for refuse or recyclables includes a tailgate apparatus mountable to a rearward opening of the storage body. The tailgate apparatus includes a receiving hopper and a movable panel which in a compaction... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6146078 | Refuse body having single-stage packing and full ejection This invention relates generally to refuse collecting and disposal vehicles. In one aspect, it relates to a refuse body adapted to be mounted on a conventional refuse vehicle chassis for loading, compacting and ejecting refuse without tilting of the body.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5386770 | Installation for compacting waste and waste assembly Installation for compacting waste. This installation consists of a partition pump fitted in a chamber, the changing volume being determined by the partitions and the wall of the chamber. A closable inlet is fitted, while the wall of the chamber can be des... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5316430 | Material collecting and hauling apparatus A waste hauling apparatus including a truck body divided into two separate compartments by a movable dividing wall. A bucket assembly having separate side-by-side bins is operative to transfer trash material loaded into the bucket by an operator at ground... | 05/31/1994 |
| 4892454 | Refuse collecting vehicle A refuse-collecting utility vehicle with a refuse-charging system located behind the driver's cabin has an adjoining refuse-compacting device and a refuse-collecting bin arranged behind the compacting device. A dual compaction system makes it possible to ... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4482283 | Refuse collecting vehicles This invention relates to improvements in refuse trucks and similar vehicles comprising a removable or upwards pivotable collecting container (7) for the waste or refuse as well as a loading hopper (15) or the like which is located beside the container on... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4310279 | Trash handling system A trash handling system including apparatus to pick up, dump, compact and store refuse material, all of which may be provided on a single vehicle such as a trailer assembly. The trailer assembly may be connected through a suitable trailer coupling to a pi... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4290352 | Refuse bin lid unit A lid unit for a portable refuse bin adapted to be engaged and inverted, by the lift mechanism of a refuse truck, to discharge a load of refuse from the bin and into the receiving body of the truck; the lid unit being hinged to the bin and normally but re... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4271756 | Load retraction preventing finger array A load retraction preventing finger array for a unitary heavy-duty refuse compactor which includes a hopper from which pre-deposited refuse is forcefully thrust by a power-advanced packing blade through an intermediate throat and into a large, normally cl... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4221527 | Refuse truck body A refuse truck body has an ejector which, in its forward position, divides the interior of the body into a loading compartment and a storage chamber. A compactor plate on the lower portion of the ejector is movable between a first position in which a lowe... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4201508 | Platen slide cover for refuse handling systems A refuse collection vehicle has a hopper and a compacting platen. A slide cover is disposed behind the platen and automatically moves rearwardly and forwardly therewith when the platen is short stroking or otherwise moving in at least a portion of the hop... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4104853 | Hay baler A baler for making large sized rectangular bales of agricultural crops, has a bale chamber the size and shape of the bales to be formed. At one end of the chamber the crop is introduced into the chamber by feed means which compresses the crop. A restraini... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4096956 | Refuse vehicle A refuse compaction apparatus adapted to be mounted upon a vehicle chassis. The apparatus is constructed as an integral unit and includes a refuse loading compartment and a refuse storage compartment. Movable longitudinally within the storage compartment ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096959 | Garbage collecting and transport vehicle A garbage collecting and transport vehicle, includes a chassis supporting a changing container which receives garbage which is picked up by a pivotal garbage can loader arm which is mounted on the chassis so as to be pivotal through an arc to raise the ga... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4091944 | Front end loader refuse collection body A front end loader refuse collection body for a motor vehicle including vertically movable container lifting arms for raising refuse containers over the body and dumping the contents thereof through an opening in the top of the body. The improvements incl... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4088234 | Front end loader A front end loader includes a refuse storage body mounted on a supporting vehicle with the storage body having an upper opening for the deposit of refuse within the body. Closure members are movable between opened and closed positions adjacent the upper o... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4074787 | Safety device for a fork-lift equipped refuse vehicle In a trash-collecting vehicle in which fork lifts raise the trash container into an elevated dumping position, a safety device is proposed which applies the vehicle parking brakes and thus immobilizes the vehicle against movement when the fork lifts are r... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4069929 | Mechanism for compacting material A material handling apparatus having a storage body, a hopper communicating with it through material compacting or crushing means in which said means comprises a cylindrical roller and a substantially planar material-holding tray capable of movement benea... | 01/24/1978 |
| 3968891 | Unitized two stage compactor apparatus for refuse collecting trucks or the like A trash hopper comprises part of a unitary structure including a housing that is formed, in part, by a swingable pre-compactor panel that in a retracted position slopes downwardly and rearwardly to gravitationally feed refuse toward the collection bin. Al... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3966096 | Satellite refuse packer A container adapted to receive refuse materials is pivotally mounted at the lower front end thereof to a truck body. The rear end of the refuse container is made adjustable in vertical height by means of a pair of hydraulic cylinders for pivoting the cont... | 06/29/1976 |
