Land vehicles: dumping – Two-wheel – With cover or end gate control
Patent
1991-07-15
1993-10-05
Huppert, Michael S.
Land vehicles: dumping
Two-wheel
With cover or end gate control
298 23C, 298 23S, A01D 9010
Patent
active
052498425
ABSTRACT:
A collector cart includes a body having an open rear end closed by a canopy pivotally connected to the body adjacent their front ends. A tow bar, which has the body pivotally connected thereto, has a support, which has caster wheels connected thereto for support, for the body. The tow bar has a quick hook-up requiring no tools at its forward end for connection to a hitch on a riding lawn mower. When the cart is to be dumped, a first handle is rotated by an operator, who remains on the mower, to initially cause pivoting of a rear portion of a frame of the canopy, which includes a cover on the frame, relative to the body and the remainder of the canopy frame to unlock the rear portion of the canopy from the rear of the body. After unlocking is accomplished, a second handle, which is pivotally mounted on the body and has a portion engaging the tow bar to prevent pivoting of the body, is rotated by the operator to disengage its engaging portion from the tow bar. A gas cylinder, which is pivotally attached to the body and has its piston rod pivotally attached to the tow bar, aids pivoting of the body to a dumping position while the canopy pivots away from the body due to a chain connecting the top front portion of the canopy frame to the mower. The gas cylinder holds the body in the dumping position.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4158279 (1979-06-01), Jackson
patent: 4836610 (1989-06-01), Doering et al.
patent: 4922696 (1990-05-01), Burns et al.
patent: 5080442 (1992-01-01), Doering et al.
Doering Charles W.
Scobee James D.
Brinly-Hardy Co., Ltd.
Huppert Michael S.
Krizek Janice
Leach, Jr. Frank C.
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