US Patent:
20210053757, Feb 25, 2021
Inventors:
- Chattanooga TN, 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
International Classification:
B65F 3/04
A47L 11/00
B65F 3/06
B65F 3/14
E01H 6/00
E01H 1/02
E01H 1/08
E01H 5/06
E02F 3/34
E02F 3/413
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.