US 11,999,562 B2
Front and side loading packers for electric refuse vehicle
Joshua D. Rocholl, Rochester, MN (US); Derek A. Wente, Austin, MN (US); John T. Kellander, Oronoco, MN (US); Cody D. Clifton, Mapleton, MN (US); Vincent Hoover, Byron, MN (US); Zachary L. Klein, Rochester, MN (US); Clinton T. Weckwerth, Pine Island, MN (US); Skylar A. Wachter, Doge Center, MN (US); Andrew Kotloski, Oshkosh, WI (US); Wallace Buege, West Bend, WI (US); Caleb Binder, Oshkosh, WI (US); and Martin J. Schimke, Red Granite, WI (US)
Assigned to Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, WI (US)
Filed by Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, WI (US)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/851,429.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/843,293, filed on May 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0346861 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. B65F 3/14 (2006.01); B65F 3/20 (2006.01); B65F 3/24 (2006.01); B65F 3/28 (2006.01); B65F 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65F 3/201 (2013.01) [B65F 3/14 (2013.01); B65F 3/207 (2013.01); B65F 3/24 (2013.01); B65F 3/28 (2013.01); B65F 2003/006 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refuse vehicle comprising:
a chassis;
a body assembly coupled to the chassis and defining a refuse compartment configured to store refuse material, the refuse compartment including a track extending adjacent a floor of the refuse compartment from a front of the refuse compartment toward a rear of the refuse compartment;
a battery system;
a tailgate moveable between an opened position and a closed position;
a conveyor belt ejector mechanism embedded within the floor of the refuse compartment and configured to eject the refuse material from the refuse compartment when the tailgate is in the opened position, the conveyor belt ejector mechanism including a conveyor belt and a conveyor belt scraper, the conveyor belt scraper disposed at a rear end of the refuse vehicle, arranged adjacent to the conveyor belt, and configured to scrape refuse material off of the conveyor belt as the conveyor belt is actuated; and
a refuse interaction mechanism comprising:
a refuse interaction element configured to selectively apply a force onto the refuse material within the refuse compartment, the refuse interaction element being moveable along the track within the refuse compartment between a receiving position, in which the refuse compartment is configured to receive refuse material, and a force-exerting position, in which the refuse interaction element is configured to exert the force on the refuse material stored within the refuse compartment;
an electrically driven actuator configured to selectively move the refuse interaction element between the receiving position and the force-exerting position, the electrically driven actuator powered by the battery system; and
an impulse generating mechanism configured to selectively apply linear impulse to the refuse interaction element.