Method of collecting and recording refuse

• US 5,209,312 A
• Filed: 02/21/1992
• Issued: 05/11/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jensen, Asger R.
• Original Assignee: Jensen, Asger R.
• Inventors: Jensen, Asger R.
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER JR, GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US07/839,587
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 177/136, 177/145, 177/139, 414/21, 414/408
• US Class Current: 177/136
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2210/184 Weighing means
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/08 for incorporation in vehicles

Abstract

A method of recording refuse in a container, where the refuse is poured into a container suspended in weighing cells on a refuse collection truck makes the weighing cells give an input to a computing device which calculates and records the weight of the refuse. The weighing container is then emptied, after which a new quantity of refuse can be weighed. For identification purposes each container is fitted with a transponder signalling to the computing device. The quantity of refuse in each container is hereby recorded thus permitting billing by quantity.

Claims

1. A method of collecting and recording refuse, said refuse being placed in small containers which are lifted by means of a lift on a refuse collection truck;

and the refuse is dumped from the container into a refuse container of the truck, and wherein the refuse is first led to a weighing container suspended in weighing cells in such a manner that the weight of the refuse is recorded, whereupon the refuse is discharged from the container and down onto a compressor which moves the refuse into a storage chamber of the refuse container.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein each container is provided with an identification transponder and the truck is provided with a radio system for identification of the individual container,

and wherein the weighing cell is a transducer which indicates the weight of the dumped refuse,

and wherein for each emptying a recording takes place in the truck of the container as well as of the contained refuse weight.

3. The weighing container for use by the method as defined in claim 2, wherein the container is configured as a vessel with sides and bottom, and where one side is provided with a slide, which can be moved from the bottom and upwards so as for the refuse to be emptied out through the opening formed in the container when the slide is raised.

4. The weighing container for use by the method as defined in claim 1, wherein the container is configured as a vessel with sides and bottom, and where one side is provided with a slide, which can be moved from the bottom and upwards so as for the refuse to be emptied out through the opening formed in the container when the slide is raised.

5. The weighing container as defined in claim 4, wherein the slide is moved by means of two hydraulic cylinders which are secured partly to the container and partly to the slide.

6. The weighing container as defined in claim 5, wherein four suspension bearings are attached on the outside of the container, preferably two at the top of the one side of the container and two approximately in the centre of the opposite side of the container, and to which bearings a bar transducer, preferably of the strain-gauge-type, is secured the opposite end of which being secured to the actual refuse container in a side member or a similar stationary part.

7. The weighing container as defined in claim 5, wherein each bar transducer, preferably in the suspension side, has a spherical surface, in which a spherical body being secured to the suspension by means of a bolt can rest.

8. The weighing container as defined in claim 4, wherein four suspension bearings are attached on the outside of the container, preferably two at the top of the one side of the container and two approximately in the centre of the opposite side of the container, and to which bearings a bar transducer, preferably of the strain-gauge-type, is secured the opposite end of which being secured to the actual refuse container in a side member or a similar stationary part.

9. The weighing container as defined in claim 8, wherein each bar transducer, preferably in the suspension side, has a spherical surface, in which a spherical body being secured to the suspension by means of a bolt can rest.

10. The weighing container as defined in claim 4, wherein each bar transducer, preferably in the suspension side, has a spherical surface, in which a spherical body being secured to the suspension by means of a bolt can rest.