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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1975
William A Herpich, Galion, OH (US);
Peabody Galion Corporation, Galion, OH (US);
Abstract
A side loading refuse truck having a reciprocable ram in the bottom of a loading compartment at the front of the truck for pushing rubbish from the loading compartment through an opening therefrom at the bottom of the rear wall of the loading compartment into a larger rear body section. Hydraulic mechanism moves the ram in short strokes through the loading compartment for packing refuse rearwardly into the larger body section. The body has an openable rear wall. The hydraulic mechanism also can be actuated to move the ram rearwardly through the opening and along the bottom of the larger rear body section to the rear thereof for ejecting refuse from the larger body section. There is a vertical guide track up which at least the greater part of an articulated sliding shield extends when the ram is forward of or in the bottom of the loading compartment. The sliding shield is pulled along with the ram when it moves into and through the larger body section in order to prevent refuse from falling down in front of the ram as it moves backwardly. When the ram is moved forwardly to the loading compartment, the sliding shield moves back up the vertical track.