Waste collection system for segregating solid waste into preselected component materials

• US 5,205,698 A
• Filed: 06/27/1991
• Issued: 04/27/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Armand G. Mezey
• Original Assignee: Armand G. Mezey
• Inventors: Mezey, Armand G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bucci, David A.
• Application Number:
  US07/722,156
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 414/406-409, 414/512, 414/517, 220/909, 220/553
• US Class Current: 414/406
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/004 the receptacles being divided in compartments by partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/0269 capable of moving along the side of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/0279 the discharging means mounted at the front of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/001 for segregated refuse collecting, e.g. vehicles with several compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/04 Linkages, pivoted arms, or pivoted carriers for raising and subsequently tipping receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/08 Platform elevators or hoists with guides or runways for raising or tipping receptacles pivotable guides or runways B65F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/201 the charging pistons, plates or the like moving rectilinearly
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/60 Glass recycling

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.

Claims

1. An improved waste collection system of the type for collection of waste from on-site locations along a route and transporting the collected waste to a centralized dumping station, said system comprising:

(a) at least one on-site waste storage container having a bottom and an upstanding side wall defining an interior chamber, an interiorly extending divider means in said chamber forming at least first and second waste-receiving compartments adapted to receive first and second types of waste, said first and second waste receiving compartments respectively having first and second openable covers, said container defining a third compartment adjacent said first and second compartments adapted to receive a third type of waste;

(b) a mobile waste collection vehicle having a trailer with upstanding side walls, a front wall, a rear wall and at least a partially open top defining a waste-receiving hopper, said hopper having divider means extending therein dividing the trailer into first and second separate mobile waste storage chambers;

(c) a bin positioned on said trailer adjacent said hopper to receive the waste from said container third compartment;

(d) loader means for said waste storage container associated with said vehicle, said loader means having container pick-up means for releasably holding said container and lift means for elevating said container from an on-site, lowered position to a dump position in which the container is partially inverted over said hopper, said container in said dump position being positioned relative to said chambers and bin to move said first and second covers to an open position each adjacent one of said first and second chambers to substantially cause the waste contained in said first and second compartments to be respectively emptied into said first and second separate mobile waste storage chambers and the waste contained in said third container compartment to be emptied into said bin thereby separating the waste into separate components.

2. The waste collection system of claim 1 wherein said waste storage container is provided with hinged doors associated with each of said first, second and third compartments which doors assume an open position when said container is inverted to a dump position.

3. The waste collection system of claim 2 further including waste compaction means associated with at least said first and second separate mobile waste storage chambers.

4. The waste collection system of claim 1 wherein said bin includes a sump for reception of liquid waste and further including compactor means associated with said sump.