System for the handling of solid waste

• US 4,044,664 A
• Filed: 09/18/1975
• Issued: 08/30/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hybud Equipment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hybud Equipment Corporation
• Inventors: Budoff, Hyman
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilhite, Billy J.
• Application Number:
  US05/614,357
• Time in Patent Office: 712 Days
• Field of Search: 100/53, 100/48, 100/49, 100/99, 100/193, 100/209, 100/215, 100/50, 100/229 A
• US Class Current: 100/48
• CPC Class Codes: B30B 9/3042 Containers provided with, or connectable to, compactor means

Abstract

A system for the handling of solid waste involving multiple solid waste handling stations. Each station has a hopper unit for receiving waste, a storage unit, and a compactor unit for transferring and compacting the waste. Each station is provided with detector means for detecting a packed storage unit. Adjoining stations are operatively interconnected by station selector means. The station selector means responds to the detector means to deactivate a station having a packed storage unit and to activate an adjoining station having an empty storage unit.

Claims

1. A solid waste handling system having multiple and operatively interconnected stations, each said station having a hopper unit with an opening in a side thereof for receiving such waste, a removable storage unit for such waste, and a compactor unit having a reciprocally driven compactor means, for transferring such waste from said hopper unit and compacting such waste in said storage unit, and an associated control means for actuating said compactor means,

each said hopper unit having a door pivotally mounted for opening and closing movement relative to said side opening therein and an associated hopper unit control means for actuating said movement of said door, the mounting of said door including a projection oscillating between an upper position when said door is open and a down position when said door is closed,

each said hopper unit further having (1) an upper limit switch operatively connected with said hopper unit control means and positioned for engagement with said mounting projection when in said upper position whereby opening movement of said door is stopped, and (2) a lower limit switch operatively connected with said hopper unit control means and said compactor unit control means and positioned for engagement with said mounting projection when in said lower position whereby closing movement of said door is stopped and said compactor means is reciprocated through said hopper unit,

each said compactor unit having associated therewith a detector means responsive to the density of such accumulated waste in each said storage unit for detecting when said storage unit is packed with such waste having reached a predetermined density,

3. A system according to claim 1 having a sensor means capable of determining the presence of a vehicle adjacent one of said hopper units and actuating said hopper unit control means associated therewith to open said door.

2. there being a station selector means in said operative interconnection between said stations, said selector means being responsive to a signal generated by one of said compactor unit detector means when a storage unit associated therewith has been packed with such waste having a predetermined density.

4. A system according to claim 2 wherein said stations are arranged in parallel pairs symmetrical about a common access road for said vehicle.

5. A system according to claim 2 wherein the free edge of said door has secured thereto a yieldable flap.