Galbreath, Inc.

Other

Kent Kruzick

Dann L Bailey, Sr

Donald E Galbreath

Brooks Roudebush

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.

Self dumping hopper with container locking mechanism

A vehicle mounted hoist includes container supporting roller assemblies configured to support a container for loading, unloading, transporting and/or dumping wherein the roller assemblies are vertically adjustable to provide for a variety of differently sized containers. The hoist includes a tilt frame and a plurality of brace devices mounted to the tilt frame and being for supporting a plurality of rollers in at least two different vertical positions, and includes a plurality of rollers sized and configured to be mounted to the brace devices to collectively support a container thereon.

Vehicle mounted hoist with adjustable container supporting roller

For a container having sides, a top and an upwardly facing opening in the top, a lid assembly includes a lid member having a width and being sized to cover and seal shut the opening; elements for mounting the lid to the container including a pair of guide rails mountable to the top of the container and at least one guide channel mountable to the top of the container; a plurality of rollers mounted to and at opposite ends of the lid member, the rollers being sized, configured and positioned to ride upon and follow the guide rails; at least one follower roller mounted to the lid member to one of the inside and the outside of the plurality of rollers, the follower roller being sized, configured and positioned to follow and stay operably engaged with the at least one guide channel; and wherein the guide rails and plurality of rollers and at least one guide channel and at least one follower roller all mutually coact to permit the lid member to be moved between a closed and clamped position wherein the lid member is positioned over and tightly clamped to the container to seal shut the opening and a closed and unclamped position wherein the lid member is positioned over the opening but is free to be slid laterally along the guide rails, and to permit the lid member to be moved between the closed and unclamped position and an open position wherein the lid member is positioned away from the opening along either side of the container.

Lid assembly for a container

A truck and hook hoist combination for picking up and manipulating a container having a grasping ring includes a vehicle having a frame with a rear; a hook hoist including a hoist frame with a rear, a roller frame having a rear and being connected to and at the rear of the hoist frame, and a jib assembly having inboard and outboard ends and being pivotally connected about an axis to the hoist frame, the roller frame including at least one roller rotatably mounted to the rear of the frame and being configured for variable slidable longitudinal extension relative to the rear of the hoist frame prior to the roller frame being rigidly connected to the hoist frame, and wherein the jib assembly includes a hook at its outboard end, the hook defining a base with a front and a rear, a post extending up from the front of the base and a main arcuate hook body extending up from the rear of the base, wherein the base, post and hook body together define a saddle sized to engage with and receive a container grasping ring therein and to transmit both forward and rearward movement of the hook to a container substantially entirely through the contact in the saddle between the hook and the grasping ring; hydraulic cylinders for pivoting the jib assembly about its axis; and, at least two hoist connecting bracket assemblies each including a lower bracket fixed to the vehicle frame and a mating upper bracket fixed to the hoist frame, and wherein the mating upper and lower brackets are connected together and each upper bracket includes a container seat configured to support a portion of a container thereon.

Vehicle mounted, variable length hook hoist

A waste handling container includes a container body having sides, a top and an upwardly facing opening in the top; a lid having a width and being sized to cover and seal shut the opening; a pair of guide rails mounted to the top of the container; at least one guide channel mounted to the top of the container; a plurality of rollers mounted to the lid, the rollers being sized, configured and positioned to ride upon and follow the guide rails; and, at least one follower roller mounted to the lid, the follower roller being sized, configured and positioned to follow and stay operably engaged with the at least one guide channel. The guide rails and plurality of rollers and at least one the guide channel and at least one follower roller all mutually coact to permit the lid to be moved between a closed and clamped position wherein the lid is positioned over and tightly clamped to the container to seal shut the opening and a closed and unclamped position wherein the lid is positioned over the opening but is free to be slid laterally along the guide rails, and between the closed and unclamped position and an open position wherein the lid is positioned away from opening along one side of the container.

Waste handling container with sliding lid

A vehicle mounted hoist for loading, transporting and dumping containers including a tail frame pivotally mounted at a tail frame pivot pin to the rear of a vehicle; a jib assembly pivotally mounted to the tail frame at a jib assembly pivot pin forwardly of the tail frame pivot pin, the jib assembly including a telescopically extendable jib with an outboard end to which is connected a hook configured to engage with a complementary configured apparatus on a container; a pair of hydraulic cylinders connected between the vehicle and the jib assembly and operable to pivot the jib assembly about one of the pivot pins; and, a locking assembly connected with the tail frame and the jib assembly and having a locked condition wherein the jib assembly is locked to pivot as a unit with the tail frame about the tail frame pivot pin, and having an unlocked position wherein the jib assembly is unlocked from the tail frame and able to be pivoted about the jib assembly pivot pin, and wherein the locking assembly is operably connected with the jib so that complete retraction of the jib changes the locking assembly from the locked to the unlocked condition only when the first hydraulic cylinders are retracted and the jib assembly and the tail frame are both in a rest position lying substantially horizontal atop the vehicle.

Vehicle mounted hook hoist for loading, transporting and dumping

A waste compactor apparatus having a front, a back and sides, includes a compactor adapted to receive waste materials through an opening in the front and to compress the waste materials into a waste container positioned therebelow; a waste container defining an upwardly facing opening; a support frame supporting the compactor above a channel defined by the support frame, the channel sized for receiving the waste container in a position substantially subjacent the compactor; and, a stop header adapted for variable attachment to the support frame for defining the direction from which the container may be inserted and withdrawn from the channel of the frame.

Waste compactor apparatus with compactor and removable subjacent

A waste handling container includes a container body with a top and an opening defined therein, the opening having opposite sides; a lid adapted to cover and seal shut the opening; and, a lid control assembly for supporting and guiding the lid and enabling the lid to be moved between a horizontal, closed position covering and sealing the opening and a vertical, open position away from the opening and pivoted to either side of the container body. The lid control assembly includes a pair of guide rails mounted to the container body along opposing sides of the opening, and includes a pair of roller hinge mechanisms mounted to the lid and adapted to correspondingly engage with the guide rails and allow the lid to slide laterally along the top of the container body and to hingedly pivot at either of opposite edges of the container body. The guide rails are mounted to the container body for vertical reciprocation and each includes a pair of suspension units for biasing the guide rails in the up position. Sealing channel extends around the periphery of the lid and contains gasket material adapted to engage with an upstanding sealing flange surrounding the opening of the container body. A longitudinal bulbous edge extends upwardly and outwardly from the sealing channel and is adapted to engage with pull down clamps mounted to the container body.

A roll-off hoist includes a trailer main frame having a forward end defining a first pair of tracks and having a rearward end; a roll-off hoist frame hingedly connected at its rearward end to the rearward end of the main frame to pivot between a horizontal transport position and a rearwardly inclined loading position, the hoist frame adapted to receive a container directly atop and adjacent thereto, the hoist frame defining a second pair of tracks which align with the first pair of tracks when the hoist frame is in the horizontal transport position; a trolley mounted to slide within the first and second pair of tracks; trolley stop means mounted on the trolley for engagement with coacting container stop means on a container; a cable which apparatus anchored to the hoist frame and adapted to pull the container onto the hoist frame; and actuator means interposed between the trolley and the hoist frame for moving the trolley within the first and second pairs of tracks and moving a container connected to the trolley forwardly of the hoist frame.

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Winamac, IN, United States of America

Kent Kruzick