Separated discards carrier with safety features

Claim 1

A separated discards carrier of the type comprising a conventional trash and garbage compactor vehicle, with an elongated space between cab and compactor, for a can bin and a glass bin on one side of said space, and for a newspaper receptacle between a can hopper means and a glass hopper means on the other side of said space, said bins each having an outside wall and an inner wall, and a hinged, latched, outside wall closure for discharging the contents thereof, said carrier characterized by: carriage means on said vehicle supporting said bins for lateral movement to a dumping location at a spaced distance away from the side of said vehicle; first power means, on said vehicle, operably connected to said carriage means for moving said bins to said dumping location; second power means on said carriage means, operably connected to said bins for tilting said bins into inclined discharge position at said dumping location; said carriage means including a pair of horizontally movable wheeled carriages, one supporting each bin and said second power means includes a pair of hydraulic pistons and cylinders, each having one end pivoted to one of said carriages and thence extending upwardly to an opposite end pivoted to the inner wall of the bin supported on that carriage; and operator actuatable control means, remote from said dumping location, for actuating said first and second power means and unlatching the outside wal closures on said bins to laterally translate, outward tilt and discharge said bins.