Garbage collecting truck

Claim 1

A garbage collecting truck comprising a truck chassis mounted on front and rear wheels, a driver cabin mounted at the front of said truck chassis, two separate elongated refuse collecting compartments mounted side by side longitudinally of said truck chassis and rearwardly of said driver's cabin, each compartment comprising a bottom and upstanding side walls, each compartment open at its rear end, the bottom of each compartment being longitudinally straight and inclined upwardly in the forward direction relative to said truck, each bottom terminating at its rear end at a level below the top of said rear wheels and behind said rear wheels, a refuse pushing power-operated ram mounted in each compartment longitudinally movable along the bottom and between the side walls of the respective compartments from a rearmost loading position adjacent the rear end of the bottom in which the top edge of the ram is at a low enough level to permit manual refuse loading of the compartment over and ahead of said ram by persons standing on the ground behind the truck, one of said compartments serving to receive recyclable refuse mainly consisting of paper and fabric, the other of said compartments serving to receive mainly non-recyclable refuse, the bottom of said one compartment terminating short of said driver's cabin at its front end, a platform carried by said truck chassis and extending longitudinally of said truck intermediate said driver's cabin and the front end of said bottom of said one compartment and a lower level than the front end of said last-named bottom, said front end forming part of a discharge opening at the front of said one compartment, said one compartment, together with its ram serving to form successive bales of said recyclable refuse, whichare pushed by said ram in said one compartment past said bottom front end and dropped onto said platform in a position to be unloaded from said truck, said other compartment extending longitudinally forward of said truck alongside said platform and forming a closed chamber at its front end portion, said front end portion having a side door in its side wall facing exteriorly of the truck, said other compartment power tiltable transversely of said truck for unloading of said other compartment upon opening of said side door.