Refuse handling and transporting apparatus

Claim 1

REFUSE HANDLING AND TRANSPORTING APPARATUS, COMPRISING: A RECEPTACLE BODY HAVING FORWARD AND REARWARD ENDS AND A LOADING OPENING AT ITS REARWARD END; DOOR MEANS ON SAID BODY FOR CLOSING SAID OPENING; A PUSHER BLADE ASSEMBLY ARRANGED TRANSVERSELY IN SAID BODY AND MOVABLE LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION ADJACENT ITS FORWARD END AND AN EXTENDED POSITION ADJACENT ITS REARWARD END; A TRAVELLING ANCHOR MOUNTED IN SAID BODY FORWARDLY OF SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND MOVABLE LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN, SAID ANCHOR BEING UNATTACHED WITH RESPECT TO THE FORWARD WALL OF THE BODY; LOCKING MEANS ON SAID ANCHOR AND BODY FOR RELEASABLY LOCKING SAID ANCHOR IS A FORWARD POSITION ADJACENT THE FORWARD END OF THE BODY AND A REARWARD POSITION INTERMEDIATE THE FORWARD AND REARWARD ENDS OF SAID BODY; TRACK MEANS IN THE BODY FOR MOUNTING SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND ANCHOR FOR MOVEMENT MAS AFORESAID, THE FRICTIONAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND TRACK MEANS BEING GREATER THAN THAT BETWEEN SAID ANCHOR AND TRACK MEANS, SO THAT WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS IS RELEASED AND RELATIVE MOVEMENT IS EFFECTED BETWEEN SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND ANCHOR BY A FORCE ACTING SIMULTANEOUS THEREON SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY REMAINS SUBSTANTIALLY STATIONARY RELATIVE TO SAID BODY AND SAID ANCHOR MOVES; AND POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND ANCHOR FOR EXERTING A FORCE ACTING SIMULTANEOUSLY THEREON AND EFFECTING LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY AND ANCHOR TOWARD AND AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, THE MAXIMUM STROKE OF SAID POWER OPERATED MEANS BEING AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE LONGITUDINAL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE FORWARD AND REARWARD POSITIONS OF SAID ANCHOR, BUT LESS THAN THE LONGITUDINAL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE RETRACTED AND EXTENDED POSITIONS OF SAID BLADE ASSEMBLY.