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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1999
Mark D. Anderson, Ottawa, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A leaf pick-up and transport bin assembly comprises a truck with a truck box and a trailer with a trailer box pulled behind, a swivel mounting platform between the truck and trailer, a blower operated leaf pick-up machine mounted on the swivel platform whereby its vacuum intake port opening to one side can be rotated so its vacuum intake port faces and opens to the opposite side, a flexible elongated conduit extends from the vacuum intake port to suck in and pick up leaves throughout the area reachable by such flexible elongated conduit, and a rotatable airflow discharge port with a flexible discharge conduit connected thereto which can be rotated to face the truck and truck box in one position and to face the trailer and trailer box when rotated to a second position. The rear wall of the truck box includes an intake aperture to receive the discharge end of the flexible discharge conduit for blowing leaves into the truck box. The front wall of the trailer box includes an intake aperture to receive the discharge end of the flexible discharge conduit for blowing leaves into the trailer box. The truck and trailer boxes include vertically extending sideboards. Each box has an open top wall covered by a mesh cover to keep the leaves in the boxes while at the same time allowing blown in air to escape. Stowing brackets are provided on the right hand side wall of the truck box in the form of spaced apart J-shaped brackets to receive and hold the flexible elongated conduit connected to the vacuum intake port of the leaf pick-up machine when not in use and during transport to unload the picked up leaves.