Patent ID: 9719230
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: E01H,E02F

Claim:
1. A mobile vacuum system comprising: a mobile support frame; a primary collection tank mounted to the mobile support frame, the primary collection tank including an inlet port; a vertical post having a top end and a bottom end, the bottom end connected to and extends upwardly from the mobile support frame and separate from the primary collection tank; a horizontal boom having a first end and a second end, the first end being rotatably coupled to the top end of the vertical post and the second end cantilevered out from the top end of the vertical post; a secondary collection tank having a top surface connected directly to the second end of the horizontal boom and the secondary collection tank suspended from the second end of the horizontal boom by its top surface and configured for rotation relative to the primary collection tank, the top end of the vertical post extending above a top of the primary collection tank and configured for the horizontal boom to rotate over the top of the primary collection tank; the secondary collection tank including a suction port and an outlet port, wherein the secondary collection tank is configured so that debris is vacuumed into the secondary tank through the suction port and into a bottom of the secondary collection tank as air is drawn out through the outlet port to the inlet port of the primary collection tank; and a vacuum source carried by the mobile support frame in fluid communication with the primary collection tank.