Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing debris from a vehicular debris collection hopper and transferring it to a debris receptacle.

Abstract: A mobile sewer and catch basin cleaning vehicle dislodges and removes debris in a conventional manner. The dislodged debris is then conveyed into a debris-receiving compartment where it undergoes a two-stage filtration process. The first stage removes the coarser debris from the reclaimed contaminated water. The second stage filters out the finer particulate debris by drawing such water through a finely filtered media surrounding a rotating drum. This filtered reclaimed water is then re-used in the cleaning operations. The extremely fine filtration media is continually cleaned by small amounts of clean water being applied at high pressure through nozzles designed to spray the entire media area as the drum rotates.

Abstract: An industrial loader vehicle, handling both wet and dry materials, has a single engine driving the vehicle to a pick-up site, powering all of the components to load the vehicle at the site, driving the vehicle to an unloading site and dumping the materials as desired at the unloading site. A powerful blower develops a high velocity air stream through a pick-up inlet conduit and a collector chamber tiltable on the vehicle for easy dumping of the collected material. A swingable and tiltable boom mounted on top of the collector presents the conduit for easy access to material located around and above the vehicle. The high velocity air stream sweeps the material through the conduit into the top of the collector chamber where it drops to the bottom of the chamber. The blower and surrounding environment are protected from materials entrained in the air stream by bag filters and cyclone separators mounted on the front end of the collector to tilt therewith.

Abstract: A mobile vehicle having self-contained apparatus for classifying, cleaning and reconstituting granular or pelletized materials, such as catalysts used in chemical plants, without polluting the surroundings, is adapted to travel from plant to plant over conventional highways and quickly placed in operating condition to remove contaminated granular materials from their beds or towers in chemical plants even when hot and process the materials to remove dust and undersized particles, to classify the granules into batches of different sizes for reuse and to filter out pollutants to protect the surrounding atmosphere.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting a hose storage reel and mounting it to a vehicular platform to allow a high degree of rotational and lateral positioning alignment of hose dispensal to and retrieval from a selected dispatch point. .Iadd.