Portable apparatus for baling trash

Claim 1

A PORTABLE TRASH BALING APPARATUS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION: A FRAME, A TRASH RECEIVING ENCLOSURE MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME AND HAVING A LOWER FRONT GATE HINGED ALONG THE LOWER FRONT LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID ENCLOSURE FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT OUTWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY AND AN UPPER REAR GATE HINGED ALONG THE UPPERREAR LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID ENCLOSURE FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT OUTWARDLY AND UPWARDLY; A REAR GATE ACTUATING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER AND PISTON MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID REAR GATE FOR OPENING AND CLOSING THE SAME; A MOVABLE PLATFORM IN SAID ENCLOSURE; A PAIR OF PLATFORM RAISING AND LOWERING HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME ADJACENT TO SAID ENCLOSURE IN VERTICAL POSITIONS; PISTON RODS ADAPTED TO BE RAISED AND LOWERED FROM ENDS OF SAID CYLINDERS; ROD MEANS CONNECTING THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID PISTON RODS TO OPPOSITE SIDE PORTIONS OF SAID PLATFORM FOR MOVING SAID PLATFORM FROM A LOWER POSITION IN SAID PISTON JUXTAPOSED TO SAID FRONT GATE TO AN UPPER POSITION IN SAID ENCLOSURE JUXTAPOSED TO SAID REAR GATE WHEREBY TRASH MAY BE RECEIVED ON SAID PLATFORM THROUGH SAID LOWER FRONT GATE WHEN SAID PLATFORM IS IN ITS LOWER POSITION, COMPRESSED INTO A BALE WHEN SAID PLATFORM IS RAISED TO ITS UPPER POSITION, AND DISPOSED OF THROUGH SAID REAR GATE WHILE SAID PLATFORM IS IN ITS UPPER POSITION; MEANS ON SAID ENCLOSURE FOR MOISTENING SAID TRASH AFTER IT IS RECEIVED THROUGH SAID FRONT GATE PREPARATORY TO BEING COMPRESSED; AN UNLOADING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER AND PISTON POSITIONED EXTERIORLY OF SAID ENCLOSURE IN A DIRECTION FACING A FRONT WALL OF SAID ENCLOSURE ABOVE SAID FRONT GATE, SAID FRONT WALL INCLUDING A SLOT OPENING FOR RECEIVING A PISTON ROD PROJECTING FROM SAID CYLINDER WHEREBY ACTUATION OF SAID CYLINDER PROJECTS SAID PISTON ROD INTO SAID ENCLOSURE TO URGE SAID TRASH BALE PAST SAID REAR GATE FREE OF SAID ENCLOSURE AFTER OPENING OF SAID REAR GATE; A SOURCE OF HYDRAULIC FLUID CONNECTED TO SAID REAR GATE ACTUATING CYLINDER, PAIR OF PLATFORM RAISING AND LOWERING CYLINDER, AND SAID UNLOADING CYLINDER; AND CONTROL MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY ACTUATING SAID CYLINDERS.