Detachable side dump body

• US 6,089,670 A
• Filed: 02/10/1999
• Issued: 07/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Side DUMP Industries LLC
• Original Assignee: Ralph R. Rogers
• Inventors: Rogers, Ralph R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dayoan, D. Glenn
• Assistant Examiner(s): CARPENTER, SCOTT A
• Application Number:
  US09/248,126
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 298/11, 298/17.5, 298/17.6, 298/17.8, 298/18, 298/17.7, 414/470, 414/486, 414/487, 414/498, 414/500, 414/546, 414/550, 414/552, 414/555
• US Class Current: 298/11
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/165 tipping movement about a fore and aft axis
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/486 using pivoted arms shifting the load-transporting element in a crosswise direction

Abstract

A side dump body for use on a truck or trailer is described wherein the side dump body may be pivoted to either side of the truck or trailer to dump the contents thereof. The side dump trailer is operatively connected to a pair of pivotal body mounts which may be utilized to remove the body from the truck or trailer and place the same on the ground adjacent either side of the truck or trailer.

Claims

1. In combination:

an elongated wheeled frame having a front end, a rear end, a first side, and a second side;

a side dump body positioned on said wheeled frame having a front end, a rear end, a first side, and a second side;

said side dump body including a front wall, a rear wall and opposite side walls having upper ends which define an open upper end;

a front body mount positioned on and pivotally secured to said wheeled frame forwardly of said front end of said side dump body;

a rear body mount positioned on and pivotally secured to said wheeled frame rearwardly of said rear end of said side dump body;

said front body mount having an upper end, a lower end, a first side, and a second side;

said rear body mount having an upper end, a lower end, a first side, and a second side;

said front body mount being pivotally secured, at its lower end adjacent said first side of said front body mount, to said wheeled frame whereby said front body mount is selectively movable between first and second positions with respect to said wheeled frame;

said rear body mount being pivotally secured, at its lower end adjacent said first side of said rear body mount, to said wheeled frame whereby said rear body mount is selectively movable between first and second positions with respect to said wheeled frame;

said front and rear ends of said side dump body being selectively detachably secured to said front and rear body mounts, respectively, whereby said side dump body moves with said front and rear body mounts when attached thereto and whereby said side dump body may be detached from said front and rear body mounts to permit said side dump body to be moved with respect thereto;

front and rear actuators connected to said front and rear body mounts, respectively, for pivotally moving said front and rear body mounts between their said first and second positions;

a first extendible mast assembly mounted on said front body mount;

a second extendible mast assembly mounted on said rear body mount;

said first and second extendible mast assemblies being selectively detachably connected to said side dump body whereby said mast assemblies may lift said side dump body from engagement with said wheeled frame, when said side dump body is detached from said body mounts and said body mounts are in their said first positions, and whereby said mast assemblies may place said side dump body on the ground adjacent said first side of said wheeled frame when said body mounts are in their said second positions;

said side dump body being positioned in a side dumping position whereby the contents of said side dump body may be dumped therefrom through said open upper end when said side dump body is attached to said body mounts and said body mounts have been pivotally moved to their said second positions.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said body mounts may be selectively pivoted towards either said first or second sides of said wheeled frame and whereby said mast assemblies may position the side dump body at either said first or said second side of said wheeled frame when said dump body is detached from said body mounts.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said side dump body is detachably fixed to said front and rear body mounts so that said side dump body does not move with respect to said front and rear body mounts when said front and rear body mounts are moved between their said first and second positions.