Apparatus for lifting and removing garbage containers from garbage trucks

US4728241A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Edelhoff Polytechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gustav D. Edelhoff · Iserlohn, DE
• Fred T. Smith · Lomita, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1985
• Grant date: Mar 1, 1988
• Expiry date: May 14, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G63/004
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Garbage can be collected and fowarded in an economical manner by garbage trucks on which containers are detachably mounted. The containers can be lifted and removed from the garbage trucks and transferred to forwarding trucks in a simple operation. This is accomplished by the provision of a conveyor for transversely conveying the containers the conveyor having a receiving end which is dispsoed approximately on the level of the load platforms of the garbage trucks and which is provided at that end with tine-like arms, which are adapted to be moved under the containers when they have been unlocked. The arms are adapted to be lifted and lowered and to be extended from and to be retracted into the receiving end of the conveyor.