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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
The Heil Co., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Shane Peek, Pisgah, AL (US);
Richard Ford, Fort Payne, AL (US);
Chad Gentry, Fort Payne, AL (US);
John Smith, Flat Rock, AL (US);
Bobby McKinney, Fort Payne, AL (US);
John Bedwell, Southside, AL (US);
Brian Parker, Fort Payne, AL (US);
Ken Beaver, Fort Payne, AL (US);
The Heil Co., Chattanooga, TN (US);
Abstract
A multi-use garbage truck has an ability to not only to front load containers of garbage into a hopper in a refuse collection body, but also an ability to swap out the forks, if not arm connection assemblies, or even entire frame arms, to be replaced with one of a plurality of attachments which connect to at least one, if not both frame arms with attachments for various uses such as snow plow, leaf blower, street sweeper, bucket, grapple, etc. Furthermore, an ability to independently operate the left frame arm relative to the right frame arm can now be provided so that the left frame arm can utilize and perform one function and the right frame arm provide another or at least be independently operable from one another.