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Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE TYPE DESCRIBED COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A GENERALLY ELONGATED HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING FRAME, A GENERALLY ELONGATED TURNTABLE, MEANS SUPPORTING SAID TURNTABLE ON SAID FRAME FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT IN A HORIZOTNAL PLANE, MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID TURNTABLE FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE ACCESS THERETO, HOPPER MEANS SUPPORTED ON SAID FRAME ADJACENT TO AND FOR ACCESS FROM SAID TURNTABLE AND INCLUDING MEANS DEFINING A DISCHARGE PASSAGE ADJACENT THE LOWER END OF SAID HOPPER MEANS, MEAN CONNECTED WITH AND CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF SAID TURNTABLE IN SAID HORIZONTAL PLANE FOR POSITIONING A VEHICLE SUPPORTED ON SAID TURNTABLE FOR DISCHARGE OF SAID MATERIAL INTO SAID HOPPER MEANS, GENERALLY ELONGATED CONVEYOR MEANS, MEANS INCLUDING ELONGATED GUIDE MEANS ON ONE OF SAID FRAME AND SAID CONVEYOR MEANS EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LOINGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FRAME AND ROLLER MEANS ON THE OTHER OF SAID FRAME AND SAID CONVEYOR MEANS ARRANGED FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID GUIDE MEANS AND SUPPORTING SAID CONVEYOR MEANS FOR MOVEMENT BELOW SAID HOPPER MEANS BETWEEN A POSITION EXTENDED FROM SAID FRAME AND A POSITION WITHIN SAID FRAME, THE MOVEMENT OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS BEING IN THE PATH IN GENERAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE DISCHARGE OPENING OF SAID HOPPER MEANS, AND HITCH MEANS ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID CONVEYOR MEANS TO AN EXTERNAL SOURCE OF MOTIVE POWER TO PROVIDE MOVEMENT OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS BETWEEN ITS POSITIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH MOVEMENT OF SAID EXERNAL SOURCE.