Galbreath, Inc.

Dann L Bailey, Sr

Kent Kruzick

Christopher P Steinman

A waste handling, intermodal container includes a container body having left and right sides, a rear, a top, an upwardly facing top opening in the top, and a rear opening in the rear; a lid sized to cover said top opening and having a closed and clamped position tightly covering and sealing the top opening and an open position including said lid being vertically positioned along one side of the container body; a lid control and support mechanism connected with the lid and the container to support the lid and to permit the lid to be slid and pivoted between the closed and clamped position and the open position; a rear door hingedly connected along one side of the container to close off the rear opening; and, a retractable hinge assembly operable to retract the door tightly against the rear of the container body to seal the rear opening and to extend the door rearwardly to enable the door to be pivotally opened at the hinge assembly to a position alongside one side of the container body.

Waste handling intermodal container with sliding lid, side-hinged, end-mounted dump door and swing-away header

An apparatus for remotely locking and unlocking a door on a transportable container, the container sized and configured to ride atop a vehicle, includes latch means mountable to the container for locking shut and unlocking the container door relative the container, linkage means mountable to the container, connected with the latch means and being for actuating the latch means, and drive means mountable to the vehicle and being for driving the linkage means, the drive means being operable remotely by a driver of the vehicle.

Apparatus and method for remotely locking and unlocking a transportable container

A self dumping hopper includes a base; a container having a pair of runners sized and configured to enable the container to rock upon the base, along a path and between a non-dumping rest position and a rearwardly angled dumping position; a guide assembly connected to either the base or the container, the guide assembly defining at least one guide path opening and being for engaging with a guide pin to restrain the container to rock within a desired path; at least one guide pin connected to the other of the base and the container and positioned to extend into and follow the at least one guide path opening; and, a latch mechanism connected to the base and container for releasable holding the container in the rest position, the latch mechanism having latched and unlatched positions and having a biasing assembly for urging the latch mechanism to the unlatched position when in the unlatched position.

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Knox, IN, United States of America

Dann L Bailey, Sr