Vehicle for clearing and loading manure

Claim 1

A VEHICLE FOR CLEARING AND LOADING MANURE FROM BENEATH POULTRY HOUSES ELEVATED APPROXIMATELY THREE FEET ABOVE THE GROUND, SAID VEHICLE COMPRISING: A CHASSIS FRAME SUPPORTED BY WHEELS INCLUDING A PAIR OF WHEELS MOUNTED AT THE OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF; A SCOOPE DISPOSED IN TRANSVERSE RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID FRAME AND MOUNTED AT ONE END THEREOF, SAID SCOOP INCLUDING ONE SIDE WALL DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH ONE SIDE OF SAID CHASSIS FRAME AND INCLUDING A BOTTOM TERMINATING IN AN ELONGATED LEADING EDGE FOR SCOOPING MANURE; POWER MEANS FOR DRIVING AT LEAST ONE OF SAID WHEELS TO MOVE SAID VEHICLE LONGITUDINALLY FORWARD; AN OPERATOR''S SEAT MOUNTED ON SAID CHASSIS FRAME AND DISPOSED IN OUTBOARD RELATION WITH RESPECT THERETO, OUTWARDLY OF SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF, SAID OPERATOR''S SEAT BEING THEREBY DISPOSED IN LATERALLY OFFSET RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF SAID SCOOP; AND STEERING MEANS DISPOSED IN LONGITUDINAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID SEAT AND ADJACENT THERETO, SAID STEERING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO AT LEAST ONE OF SAID WHEELS TO STEER SAID VEHICLE, THE PORTION OF SAID VEHICLE, INCLUDING SAID SCOOP AND SAID FRAME, DISPOSED INWARDLY OF SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID FRAME BEING OF SUFFICIENTLY LIMITED VERTICAL DIMENSIONS TO PERMIT FREE MOVEMENT BENEATH SAID POULTRY HOUSES AND SAID OPERATOR''S SEAT BEING DISPOSED GENERALLY AT THE SAME LEVEL AS THE UPPER EXTREMITIES OF SAID SCOOP AND SAID FRAME, WHEREBY SAID VEHICLE MAY BE DRIVEN INTO LOADING POSITION WITH RELATION TO AN ELEVATED POULTY HOUSE WITH SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE EXTENT OF SAID FRAME AND SAID SCOOP BEING DISPOSED THEREUNDER AND WITH AN OPERATOR MOUNTED ON SAID SEAT IN A POSITION OUTWARDLY OF THE ADJACENT WALL OF SAID POULTRY HOUSE TO CONTROL THE OPERATION OF SAID VEHICLE.