Rubbish collecting vehicle with loading and packing apparatus

Claim 1

A REFUSE COLLECTING VEHICLE OF THE FRONT LOADING TYPE HAVING MOTOR PROPELLED CHASSIS EQUIPPED WITH A DRIVER COMPARTMENT AT ITS FORWARD END, A REFUSE HANDLING COMPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY REARWARD OF SAID DRIVER COMPARTMENT EQUIPPED WITH POWER DRIVEN PUSHER MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING REFUSE REARWARDLY INTO THE BOTTOM OF A LARGE CAPACITY STORAGE COMPARTMENT MOUNTED ON THE REAR OF SAID CHASSIS, A PAIR OF FLUID-POWERED CYLINDERS CONFINED TO THE BOTTOM OF SAID REFUSE HANDLING COMPARTMENT OPERATING IN PARALLEL TO RECIPROCATE SAID PUSHER MEANS AND ARRANGED IN A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE WITH THEIR AXES LYING AT AN ANGLE TO ONE ANOTHER, PIVOT MEANS CONNECTING THE FORWARD ENDS OF SAID CYLINDERS TO THE OPPOSITE LATERAL SIDES OF SAID REFUSE HANDLING COMPARTMENT AND THEIR REAR ENDS TO THE CENTRAL PORTION OF SAID PUSHER MEANS, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING PRESSURIZED FLUID TO EITHER END OF SAID CYLINDERS AND SELECTIVELY OPERABLE TO EXTEND AND TO RETRACT SAID PUSHER MEANS, SAID CYLINDERS BEING OPERBLE TO RECIPROCATE SAID PUSHER MEANS BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE REARWARD HALF OF SAID REFUSE HANDLING COMPARTMENT, SAID PUSHER INCLUDING AN UPWARDLY PIVOTING TOP WALL AT ITS FORWARD END, AND MEANS FOR PIVOTING SAID TOP WALL INTO A GENERALLY VERTICAL PLANE AT THE REAR OF SAID DRIVER COMPARTMENT AS SAID PUSHER MEANS IS WITHDRAWN TO ITS RETRACTED POSITION AT THE FORWARD END OF SAID REFUSE HANDLING COMPARTMENT.