Appeal No. 1999-0711 Page 5
Application No. 08/876,869
The obviousness rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Matsumoto discloses a recyclable refuse handling truck comprising a truck body (22)
having lateral sides (28) formed at the front of the body with an inset (39) which accommodates
a hoisting apparatus for a bin (84). The body is separated into three longitudinally extending2
compartments (57, 59 and 73) separated by partitions (29, 41), as shown in Figure 5. The bin
(84) is divided into three parts for separate types of refuse by bin partitions (110) and is
pivotally mounted at a pivot shaft (83) to a frame comprising upper and lower horizontal frame
members (166, 167) and vertical members (168). Rollers (102) are rotatably connected to the
member (168) and slide in channels (81), which include a vertical portion and an
inward/downward slanted portion (82) to guide the bin from a position (Figure 17) wherein it is
tucked under the truck body to a dumping position wherein the pivot shaft (83) is disposed at
the top of the channels (81). When the bin reaches the dumping position, a cylinder (121) is
actuated to pivot the bin to a dumping orientation, as shown in Figure 7A. The upper front
region of the truck body is provided with a plurality of downwardly and inwardly extending
chutes (56, 58, 71) separated by chute partitions (48, 51) for directing refuse dumped from the
respective parts of the bin (84) into the various compartments (see column 4, line 21, to column
5, line 12). When the truck is proceeding along a highway, the overall width of the truck body
2The hoisting apparatus used to lift the bin comprises side channels (86), chains (92) anchored to a
crosshead (91), a hydraulic cylinder (88) operatively connected to the crosshead (91) via a rod (89) and lower sheaves
(94) around which the chains run.
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