Loading and ejecting mechanism for refuse vehicles

Claim 1

IN A REFUSE VEHICLE INCLUDING A HOLLOW BODY HAVING A REAR END OPENING, A TAIL GATE MOVABLY MOUNTED ON THE BODY FOR MOVEMENT INTO AND OUT OF CLOSING RELATION TO THE OPENING, A REFUSE TROUGH CARRIED BY THE TAILGATE IN POSITION TO HOLD A CHARGE OF REFUSE TO BE MOVED FROM THE TROUGH INTO THE BODY THROUGH THE OPENING WHEN THE GATE IS CLOSED, APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING REFUSE FROM THE TROUGH TO THE BODY COMPRISING A SWEEP PANEL ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON A HORIZONTAL AXIS ON THE TAILGATE FOR ROTATION IN ONE DIRECTION THROUGH THE TROUGH TO MOVE REFUSE FROM THE TROUGH TO A SUPPORTED POSITION ON THE SWEEP PANEL, A RAM PANEL ROTATABLY CONNECTED AT ITS UPPER END TO THE TAIL GATE FOR HORIZONTAL SWINGING MOVEMENT ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS ON THE TAILGATE ABOVE AND IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE AXIS OF THE SWEEP PANEL FOR MOVEMENT FORWARDLY ACROSS THE SWEEP PANEL TO MOVE REFUSE FROM THE SWEEP PANEL INTO THE BODY, SEPARATE MOTOR MEANS FOR MOVING THE PANELS, AND MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY OPERATING THE MOTOR MEANS TO ROTATE THE SWEEP PANEL IN SAID ONE DIRECTION AWAY FROM REFUSE SUPPORTING POSITION WHILE THE RAM PANEL IS IN ITS FORWARDMOST POSITION AND TO THEREAFTER ROTATE THE SWEEP PANEL IN SAID ONE DIRECTION AND MOVE SAID RAM PANEL REARWARDLY SIMULTANEOUSLY UNTIL THE RAM PANEL REACHES SAID REARMOST POSITION, SAID TAIL GATE BEING FORMED OF UPPERR AND LOWER DETACHABLE PORTIONS, THE LOWER OF WHICH COMPRISES SAID REFUSE TROUGH, AND THE RAM PANEL BEING MOUNTED IN SAID UPPER PORTION, A SHAFT EXTENDING ALONG AND ATTACHED TO ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF THE SWEEP PANEL AND BEARING MEANS FOR THE ENDS OF THE SHAFT, EACH FORMED IN SEPARATE PARTS ATTACHED TO SAID UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS OF SAID TAIL GATE TO SUPPORT THE SWEEP PANEL SHAFT FOR ROTATION WITH THE SHAFT, WHEREBY SAID SWEEP PANEL AND SHAFT MAY BE REMOVED AS A UNIT FROM THE TAIL GATE FOR REPLACEMENT OF REPAIR.