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Top mounted container handling apparatus

US5419671A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 24, 1993
Grant dateMay 30, 1995
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Expiry dateMar 24, 2013

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S414/13
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A container handling apparatus having a mounting platform a lifting arm extending from the mounting platform and terminating in a gripper mechanism, mounted on top of a body of a refuse collection vehicle and configured to include three four-bar linkages which interact to produce a reach cycle and a hoist cycle.

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