University of California

Blackwelders

George E Marshall, Jr

Darryl G Bettencourt

Lewis W Schmidt

Charles F Dietz

Daniel L Freeman

A lid unit for a portable refuse bin adapted to be engaged and inverted, by the lift mechanism of a refuse truck, to discharge a load of refuse from the bin and into the receiving body of the truck; the lid unit being hinged to the bin and normally but releasably latched in closed position, and a hinged loading lid is included in the lid unit and normally but releasably latched in closed position; the loading lid--when unlatched--being manually swingable, relative to the remainder of the lid unit, to open position to permit manual deposit of refuse in the bin, and the entire lid unit gravitationally swinging to open position when unlatched and upon such inversion of the bin, whereupon the load of refuse dumps from the bin and into the receiving body of the truck; the loading lid remaining in latched, closed position during said inversion of the bin.

Refuse bin lid unit

An improved trash separation mechanism at the rear cross-conveyor assembly of a tomato harvester. A frame of the harvester supports a centrally located fruit collecting conveyor for delivering fruit rearwardly to the rear cross-conveyor assembly. A blower directs a strong rearward airstream from adjacently below the rear end of the collecting conveyor across the rear cross-conveyor assembly. A rearwardly rotating roller is mounted adjacently behind the cross-conveyor assembly and moves vegetative and mineral trash away from the cross-conveyor. A slide plate behind the roller may deflect the trash to the ground. A series of resilient fingers depending downwardly from above the roller move in circular vertical patterns to agitate the trash as it collects at the roller to prevent accumulation of the trash upon the roller and to enhance rearward movement thereof upon the roller and deposit of the trash on the ground.

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Sacramento, CA, United States of America

George E Marshall, Jr