Patents by Inventor Shane Peek
Shane Peek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230312240Abstract: A refuse vehicle body includes a hopper configured to receive refuse and a storage container configured to store compacted refuse. A tailgate is coupled to a rearward facing side of the refuse vehicle body and is movable between closed and opened positions. The refuse vehicle body includes a rear loading assembly configured to (i) engage a refuse container at a rear side of the refuse vehicle body, (ii) lift the refuse container over a top end of the tailgate, and (iii) rotate the refuse container above the hopper such that the refuse container is unloaded into the hopper. The refuse vehicle body further includes a refuse packing assembly configured to transfer refuse from the hopper and compact said refuse in the storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Mark Fraas, Evan Tyler Whitten, Michael Shane Peek
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Publication number: 20230076113Abstract: A rear loading refuse vehicle includes a tailgate coupled to a rearward end of the body. The tailgate includes a modular refuse packing assembly removably mounted therein and configured to compact refuse received in a hopper into a storage chamber located in the body. The modular refuse packing assembly may include a frame supporting an actuator and a blade. The frame is removably coupled to the tailgate. The actuator is configured to move the blade between extended and retracted positions and thereby compact the refuse received in the hopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Michael Shane Peek, Mark Fraas, Tapankumar Pandya
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Publication number: 20230011695Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a packer system with an auger screw, one or more refuse support panels, one or more sensing devices, and a refuse support panel actuator system. The refuse support panel(s) support refuse while characteristics of the refuse are sensed. The refuse support panel actuator system moves the refuse support panels such that refuse is released from the refuse support panels in to the packer system. A driver of the packer system rotates the auger screw such the refuse is packed into a storage compartment of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: David C. Gentry, Eric Evans, Bryan Stewart, Anthony B. Giles, Michael Shane Peek
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Publication number: 20230008771Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle having a packer system, a hopper, and a storage compartment. A wall between the storage compartment and the hopper defines an opening that allows refuse to pass from the hopper to the storage compartment. The packer system includes an auger screw and a driver. The driver rotates the auger screw such that refuse is packed into the storage compartment through the opening. A door can be positioned to cover the opening in the wall to inhibit refuse from passing back through the opening. A door actuator system moves the door to selectively open and close the door on the opening. A packing actuator can push an ejector panel across the floor of the storage compartment while the door is closed on the opening in the wall to further compact refuse in the storage compartment or to eject refuse from the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Mark Fraas, Eric Evans, Michael Shane Peek, Tracy Mason, Tapankumar Pandya, Bryan White, Taher Taiyeb Basrai
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Publication number: 20220410688Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a vehicle chassis and an all-electric vehicle body on the chassis. The body includes a hopper, a refuse storage container, and a plurality of electrically powered body systems. The body systems include an electrically actuated tailgate, an electrically actuated refuse loading assembly, and an electrically actuated refuse packing assembly configured to remove refuse from the hopper and to pack said refuse in the storage container. The vehicle (e.g., vehicle body) further includes a power management module configured to regulate energy usage of the body systems and/or to record and track electrical energy usage in the body systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Brian T. Parker, Savannah G. Chandler, Brian Huston Ham, Stanley L. Maroney, Rebecca B. Palmer, Michael Shane Peek, John Forrest Smith, Bryan Stewart
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Publication number: 20220363473Abstract: A refuse vehicle body includes an electrically actuated, rack and pinion tailgate actuation system. A tailgate is rotationally coupled to the body and configured to rotate between closed and open positions. The tailgate actuation system may be supported by the body and/or tailgate and is configured rotate the tailgate between the closed and open position. The tailgate actuation system may further optionally include a locking mechanism configured to lock and unlock the tailgate in the closed position using the same electrically powered rotary actuator that opens and closes the tailgate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Michael Shane Peek, Andrew J. Yuds, Garrett J. Eckerl, Nitesh S. Shroff
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Publication number: 20220363474Abstract: A refuse vehicle body includes a tailgate coupled to the body. The tailgate is movable between closed and open positions. An ejector is deployed in the body and configured to translate between forward and rearward positions. An actuator is configured to translate the ejector between the forward and rearward positions and is further configured to provide an actuation force that moves the tailgate from the closed position towards the open position and thereby at least partially opens the tailgate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Mark Fraas, Michael Shane Peek, Bryan Stewart, Eric Evans
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Patent number: 11479406Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Publication number: 20210053757Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Patent number: 10745197Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Publication number: 20190308811Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Patent number: 10239689Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Publication number: 20180327183Abstract: 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 aim 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
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Patent number: 9624033Abstract: A bolt-on shaft and gear system includes a body assembly defining two spaced apart mounts. A powered grasping assembly includes a first pivot pin pivotally positioned in a first of the two mounts and a first gear section fixedly coupled to the first pivot pin. An actuating driver is attached between the body assembly and the powered grasping assembly for controllably rotating the powered grasping assembly about the first pivot pin. A follower grasping assembly includes a second pivot pin pivotally positioned in a second of the two mounts and a second gear section fixedly coupled to the second pivot pin, the second gear section is meshed with the first gear section so as to rotate with the powered grasping assembly in an opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Thomas L. Price, Michael Shane Peek