Abstract:
There is disclosed a refuse system in which a conventional truck chassis includes a conventional garbage loading receptacle with a compaction device therein. The system provides additional compartments for reception of recyclable material. The compartments are individual modules and each include a lateral access opening and a lateral discharge opening with a device located within each for moving material located therein from one opening to the other.
Abstract:
A trash compactor is provided that has a single ram that simultaneously precompacts trash in an auxiliary precompacting chamber and compacts trash that has already been precompacted in a main compacted and storage chamber. The ram has a single actuating device and efficiently provides for both precompacting in the auxiliary precompacting chamber and for compacting in the compacting and storage chamber with each stroke of the ram.
Abstract:
An improved waste collection system having an on-site container which is internally compartmented to receive and separately store the various waste components such as aluminum, glass, paper and land-fill trash. The route collection vehicle is divided into chambers and has a compaction system for compacting the contents of at least some of the collection vehicle chamber. The vehicle has a loading apparatus which lifts the container to an inverted dumping position in which position the container is positioned with respect to the chambers to cause the waste to be inherently separated or classified within the collection vehicle chambers. The loading apparatus may be side or front loading.
Abstract:
A refuse compaction system in a refuse collection vehicle having a movable plate inside the vehicle body against which refuse may be compacted; a hydraulic ram to hold and move the plate, and a variable valve having means to regulate the fluid pressure in the ram according to the position of the plate in the vehicle body.
Abstract:
A refuse carrying vehicle receives refuse into a receptacle mounted thereon. An aperture extends through a wall of the receptacle for alignment with a carrying chamber pivotally mounted on the vehicle for movement between a horizontal position and a tilted dumping position. A hydraulic ram pushes refuse horizontally from within the receptacle through the aperture into the chamber, a second hydraulic compacting ram is located in said carrying chamber to plunge vertically onto the refuse in said chamber. A hydraulic pressure system is mounted on the chassis for operating the loading ram and the refuse-compacting ram and is controlled by electric switch means including ram movement limiting switches and pressure limit switches to cyclically activate and deactivate solenoid operated valves in said pressure system whereby said loading ram and said compacting ram are continuously synchronously reciprocating.