Patent ID: 8196735

Claim:
A trash-and-recyclables collection and lowering system including a structure subsystem, a vehicle subsystem and a control subsystem wherein said structure subsystem includes a frame, two sets of loop-shaped guide means, a pair of loop-shaped chains and two pairs of sprockets and at least one motor, said structure subsystem includes a top segment, a pair of middle segments, a bottom segment, in said top segment and bottom segment, said two sets of loop-shaped guide means are curved, in said pair of middle segments, said two sets of loop-shaped guide means are vertically extending and straight-shaped, two of said sprockets are disposed in said top segment and the other two sprockets in said bottom segment, said loop-shaped chain is rotatably connected to a pair of said sprockets, one in said top segment and another in said bottom segment, said structure subsystem is disposed next to a multi-story building's wall that has a plurality of trash or recyclables disposal windows, said vehicle subsystem includes a plurality of gondolas serially connected to said chain, each of said gondolas is connected to said chain generally at bottom mid point of each side of said gondola by a pin, each of said fin penetrate through a guide means that moves along one set of said two sets of loop-shaped guide means, wherein said guide means is a guiderail, said structure subsystem includes a plurality, grouped in pairs, of a means to control tipping of said gondola in each side, each of said means to control tipping of said gondola in said structure subsystem is another set of said guide means, each of said gondolas is equipped with one of said pair of means to control tipping of said gondola in each upper corner of each side of said gondola, and said gondolas in building-facing half of said loop created by said chain are in upright position, and receive trash or recyclables from said trash or recyclables, and accumulate trash or recyclables, and periodically moved in the downward direction to empty said trash or recyclables in said gondolas.