EP0244732B1 - Véhicule pour la collecte d'ordures - Google Patents

Véhicule pour la collecte d'ordures Download PDF

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EP0244732B1
EP0244732B1 EP87106110A EP87106110A EP0244732B1 EP 0244732 B1 EP0244732 B1 EP 0244732B1 EP 87106110 A EP87106110 A EP 87106110A EP 87106110 A EP87106110 A EP 87106110A EP 0244732 B1 EP0244732 B1 EP 0244732B1
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Gustav-Dieter Edelhoff
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/02—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto
    • B65F3/04—Linkages, pivoted arms, or pivoted carriers for raising and subsequently tipping receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/02—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto
    • B65F3/04—Linkages, pivoted arms, or pivoted carriers for raising and subsequently tipping receptacles
    • B65F3/06—Arrangement and disposition of fluid actuators
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F3/00—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
    • B65F3/02—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto
    • B65F2003/0223—Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse with means for discharging refuse receptacles thereinto the discharging means comprising elements for holding the receptacle
    • B65F2003/024—Means for locking the rim

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  • the invention relates to a refuse collection vehicle with a pouring unit, consisting of a pouring opening arranged in the front area of the vehicle and a lifting and tipping device for receiving and emptying refuse containers into the pouring opening of a receiving space, the lifting and tilting device being pivotable at least one about a transverse axis of the pouring unit or the chassis Lift arm which carries at its free end a base rail parallel to the transverse axis, which can be pivoted between its receiving area in front of the driver's cab and its dumping area behind the driver's cab and on which a carrier is displaceably supported by at least one end thereof by a pressure medium piston-cylinder unit is, and wherein a swivel arm is mounted on the support, which can be pivoted via a handlebar and a pressure-piston-cylinder unit between its folded position on the support and its position approximately at right angles to it un d who carries at its free end a coupling piece for coupling and / or gripping garbage containers.
  • the swivel arm together with an auxiliary link articulated at a distance from it on the carrier, together with the coupling piece articulated at its outer ends as a coupling member, forms a four-bar system which is operated by a hydraulic piston-cylinder Unit, one end of which is articulated on the carrier and the other end of which is articulated on the swivel arm, and can be swiveled out and in.
  • a pressure medium-piston-cylinder unit is provided, by means of which the carrier is displaced relative to the base rail on which it is guided.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a device which is simpler than the known device for extending and swiveling the coupling piece.
  • this object is achieved in a refuse collection vehicle of the generic type in that a link or lever is articulated on the carrier in its front region in the direction of extension, which carries a sliding block or a roller at its free ends, which is connected in a curve guide firmly connected to the base rail run, and that with the handlebar or lever a transmission rod is connected as a gear member which is directly or indirectly articulated to the swivel arm and this gives a pivoting movement according to the rotation of the handlebar or lever.
  • a coupling rod is connected to the handlebar at a distance from its pivot axis, the other end of which is articulated on the pivot arm at a distance from its pivot point on the carrier.
  • the pivoting of the swivel arm carrying the coupling piece takes place depending on the displacement of the carrier on the base rail only by the handlebar provided with the roller, which is connected to the swivel arm by a coupling rod in the manner of a toggle lever.
  • no special drive in the form of a hydraulic cylinder therefore needs to be provided for pivoting the swivel arm carrying the coupling piece. Since the pivoting movement of the pivot arm is derived from the extension movement of the carrier, only a hydraulic cylinder displacing the carrier need be provided.
  • the coupling piece expediently consists of a triangular receiving claw with wedge-shaped or spherically curved gripping edges, which can be inserted centering into a complementary receiving pocket of the refuse containers to be gripped, and is preferably rigidly connected to the gripping arm. Since the receiving claw is provided with a substantially flat front surface, this aligns the waste container to be grasped with a slight displacement by pivoting the gripping arm relative to the latter.
  • a guide rod which passes through a bore of a slide plate fastened to the swivel arm and onto which a coiled compression spring clamped between an abutment plate provided in its swivel area and the slide plate is pushed onto the carrier at a distance from the pivot axis of the handlebar , is mounted such that the compression spring is increasingly tensioned at the end of the pivoting movement of the swivel arm.
  • the spring acts as a damping element and prevents the swivel arm from being struck into its swiveled-in end position by the hydraulic cylinder displacing the carrier with excessive force.
  • the carrier consists of two telescopically pushed and guided profiled carrier pieces and that two hydraulic piston-cylinder units are arranged in parallel in the inner carrier piece, both cylinders connected to a bottom plate of the outer carrier piece and one piston rod each is connected to the base rail and an end plate of the inner support piece.
  • the lever as in the Carrier-mounted crank is formed and that a lever is connected to the crankshaft, the free end of which is articulated to a coupling rod, the other end of which is articulated on the swivel arm at a distance from the articulation point on the carrier.
  • the base rail 1 is pivoted about axes 4, 5 parallel to it. Furthermore, the base rail 1 is articulated in the manner known from EP-A-163 859 with an auxiliary linkage which pivots the base rail 1 in accordance with the respective pivot position of the lifting arms 2, 3.
  • the carrier piece 6, which has a rectangular box profile, is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner.
  • the carrier piece 7 is telescopically guided, which has a correspondingly smaller box profile.
  • the outer support piece 6 is closed on the right side by a bottom 7 '.
  • the cylinders 8, 9 of the hydraulic piston-cylinder units 10, 11, which extend into the profile of the inner support piece 7, are fastened to the base 7 '.
  • the lower cylinder 9 is attached with its piston end to the base plate 7 ', while the piston rod 12 passes through the base plate 7' and is attached to the base rail 1 by the abutment part 13.
  • the upper cylinder 8 is fastened to the base plate 7 'with its end opposite the piston rod 14.
  • the front end of the piston rod 14 is fastened to an end plate 15 which closes the front end of the profile of the inner carrier piece 7 at its front end.
  • the longitudinally displaceable guidance of the outer carrier piece 6 in the base rail 1 is shown schematically by the tabs 16, 17 fastened to the outer carrier piece 6, which engage behind the base rail 1 with guide rollers 18, 19.
  • the link 21 is pivotally articulated about a vertical axis 20 and carries a freely rotatable roller 22 at its free end.
  • the pivot arm 25 is furthermore pivotably mounted at a distance from the pivot axis 20 about a vertical axis 24 parallel to this.
  • the coupling rod 27 is pivotally mounted thereon, the other end of which is articulated in the joint 28 on the pivot arm 25.
  • the pivot arm 25 carries the approximately triangular receiving claw 30 at its outer end.
  • the roller 22 mounted on the free end of the handlebar 21 runs in the channel-shaped curve guide 31, which is firmly connected to the base rail 1.
  • the swivel arm 25 is pivoted clockwise by the link 21 and the coupling rod 27 into its approximately rectangular position with respect to the carrier pieces 8, 9. 1.2, the support arm 25 is shown in its pivoted-in position, in which the receiving claw 30 is located in the middle between the lifting arms 2, 3. In the pivoted-out position (not shown), the area of the inner support piece 7 which carries the joints 20, 21 is extended to the left beyond the lifting arm 2.
  • the pivot points 20, 24, 26, 28 of the handlebar 21, the lifting arm 25 and the coupling rod 27 and the curvature of the curve 31 are selected so that the lifting arm 25 is pivoted out in the desired manner by extending the carrier pieces 8, 9.
  • the rod 41 is pivotally mounted about the axis 40, which slides through the plate 42, which is fixedly connected to the front region of the pivot arm 25, in a bore.
  • the rear end of the rod 41 is connected to an abutment plate 43.
  • a helical compression spring 44 is clamped between the abutment plate 43 and the slide plate 42.
  • the articulation point 40 of the rod 41 and the bore in the slide plate 42 are selected such that the spring 44 is increasingly tensioned when the lifting arm 25 is pivoted into the pivoted-in end position.
  • the spring thus has a damping effect on the piston-cylinder units, so that undesired beating of the swivel arm with high kinetic energy into the swiveled-in end position is avoided.
  • an abutment plate 48 is provided above the receiving claw 30 in its pivoted-in end position, which is supported on the upper side of the upper edge of the waste container to be emptied.
  • This holding plate is pivotally mounted against spring force by a small angle and the end positions of the holding plate are secured by abutments forming stops.
  • 6 to 8 is another Embodiment of the control for the swivel arm 125 described.
  • the curve guide 131 is provided in the front end face of the base rail 1.
  • a roller 122 runs, which is mounted on the free end of the lever 121, which is fastened to the inner end of the shaft 120 mounted on the telescopic support 107 and thus forms a crank.
  • Crankshaft 120 is attached to a lever 128, the free end of which is articulated to a coupling rod 127, the other end of which is articulated to the swivel arm 125 at a distance from its articulation point 124 on the telescopic support 107.
  • the crank When the carriers 106, 107 are extended, the crank thus transmits a connecting rod-like movement to the coupling rod 127, which thus swivels the pivot arm 125 between the end positions of the crank roller 122 in the cam guide 131.

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1. Véhicule à ordures comportant une unité de déchargement constituée d'une ouverture de déversement placée à l'avant du véhicule et d'un dispositif élévateur-culbuteur servant à réceptionner et à vider les récipients à ordures dans l'ouverture de déversement d'un compartiment de décharge, le dispositif élévateur-culbuteur présentant au minimum un bras de levage (2, 3) pivotant autour d'un axe transversal de l'unité de déchargement ou du châssis du véhicule, bras de levage, qui porte à son extrémité libre un rail de base (1) parallèle à l'axe transversal, rail, qui peut pivoter entre sa zone de réception devant la cabine du conducteur et sa zone de déversement derrière la cabine du conducteur et dans lequel est logé un support (6, 7) translatable qui, par l'intermédiaire d'une unité piston-cylindre à fluide (10, 11), peut être poussé jusqu'à une extrémité au moins du rail et tandis qu'est logé sur le support un bras pivotant (25, 125), lequel, par l'intermédiaire d'un bras oscillant (21) et d'une unité piston-cylindre à fluide, peut pivoter entre sa position repliée contre le support et sa position pivotée sensiblement perpendiculaire au support et porte à son extrémité libre une pièce d'accouplement (30) pour accoupler et/ou saisir des récipients à ordures, caractérisé en ce que sur les supports (6, 7; 106, 107) et dans leur zone avant, dans le sens de la poussée vers l'extérieur, est articulé un bras oscillant (21) ou un levier (121), qui porte à son extrémité libre un glisseur ou un rouleau (22; 122), qui se déplace dans un guide incurvé (31; 131) relié de manière fixe au rail de base (1; 101) et en ce qu'une barre de transmission (27; 128), en tant qu'élément d'entraînement, est reliée au bras oscillant (21) ou au levier (121), barre de transmission, qui est reliée de manière articulée directement ou indirectement au bras pivotant (25; 125) et lui confère un mouvement pivotant correspondant à la rotation du bras oscillant (21) ou du levier (121).
2. Véhicule à ordures selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'une barre de couplage (27) est reliée à la manière d'une genouillère au bras oscillant (21) à distance de l'axe de pivotement (20) de celui-ci, l'autre extrémité de la barre de couplage étant articulée sur le bras pivotant (25) à distance du point d'articulation (24) de ce dernier sur le support (7).
3. Véhicule à ordures selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que sur le support (7), à distance de l' axe de pivotement (20) du bras oscillant (21), est logée une tige de guidage (41), qui traverse un alésage d'une plaque coulissante (42) fixée sur le bras pivotant (25) et sur laquelle est encagé un ressort de pression (44) boudiné comprimé entre une plaque de butée (43) prévue dans sa zone de pivotement et la plaque coulissante (42), cette tige de guidage est logée de manière que la compression du ressort de pression (44) soit la plus forte à la fin du mouvement de pivotement interne du bras pivotant (25).
4. Véhicule à ordures selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le support est constitué par deux pièces support profilées (6, 7) coulissant l'une dans l'autre de manière télescopique et guidées l'une dans l'autre et en ce qu'à l'intérieur du profil de la pièce support interne (7) sont placées parallèles entre elles deux unités piston-cylindre hydrauliques (10, 11), dont les deux cylindres (8, 9) sont reliés à une plaque de fond (7') de la pièce support externe (6), tandis que les tiges de piston (12, 14) sont reliées respectivement au rail de base (1) et à une plaque frontale (15) de la plaque support interne (7).
5. Véhicule à ordures selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le levier (121) est une manivelle logée dans le support (106, 107) et en ce qu'un levier (128) est relié à l'arbre (120) de manivelle, lequel levier est articulé à son extrémité libre sur une barre de couplage (127), dont l'autre extrémité est articulée sur le bras pivotant (125) à distance du point d'articulation (124) de celui-ci sur le support (107).
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