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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1996
Zoltan Szinte, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Kann Manufacturing Corporation, , IA (US);
Abstract
A refuse collection vehicle for collecting refuse contained in refuse receptacles includes a storage body having a plurality of segregated refuse compartments, an intermediate container having a plurality of bins corresponding to the plurality of refuse compartments, an intermediate container dumping assembly supported proximate the storage body for lifting and emptying contents of each of the plurality of bins into corresponding refuse compartments of the storage body and an automated refuse collection assembly supported adjacent the plurality of bins of the intermediate container. The automated refuse receptacle collection assembly is configured for engaging a refuse receptacle and is selectively movable so as to engage refuse receptacles curbside, streetside and anywhere in between the curbside and the streetside of the refuse collection vehicle. The automated refuse receptacle collection assembly is also configured and selectively movable for selectively dumping contents of the refuse receptacle into a selected one of the plurality of bins.