ES368734A1 - Stationary loading device for trash transportation containers. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Stationary apparatus for feeding refuse dropped from a shaft 2 into a mobile refuse container 3 having a pivotally mounted tamping wall 4, comprises a plate 8 which is adapted to be coupled by members 6, 7 to the wall 4, is pivoted on a shaft 20 carried by support bars 19, and is swingable about the shaft 20 by means of a pair of double-acting hydraulic cylinders 23. After the apparatus has been connected to the container 3, by means of hooks 16, which are pivotally mounted on the ends of a tube 15 which extends between the container side walls 9 and carries the support bars 19, and the wall 4 has been coupled to the plate 8, any accumulation of refuse, which is large enough to influence a photo-electric cell 30 connected to a time delay, causes the hydraulic cylinders 23 to be actuated and move the plate 8 and wall 4 inwardly, from its originally outwardly inclined position, to shift the refuse forwardly into the container 3 and compact it therein. Where the apparatus 1 and the container 3 are connected together, trunnions 5, which pivotally mount the wall 4, are co-axial with the pivot shaft 21 for the plate 8. The latter has a recess 26, or a slot, to receive a handle on the wall 4, and carries an arcuate segment 29 which resiliently engages a guide shoot plate 28. Hydraulic pressure supply is cut off from the cylinders 23 when the back pressure of the compacted material in the container rises above a predetermined limit, final compacting being carried out manually. The shaft 2 has a manually operable blocking member 31.