Tilting dump truck with receptacle discharging means and directional chute

Claim 1

A TRUCK BODY OF THE TYPE WHICH TILTS ABOUT A FIXED TRANSVERSE AXIS ADJACENT TO ITS REAR TO A DISCHARGE POSITION WITH ITS FORWARD END ELEVATED SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR DISCHARGE OF ITS CONTENTS, THROUGH A REARWARDLY FACING OPENING IN ITS UPPER REAR END, TO THE RECEIVING PAN OF A DISTRIBUTING CHUTE, SAID BODY BEING CHARACTERIZED BY: (A) A ROUNDED SUBSTANTIALLY CONICALLY SURFACED BOTTOM THAT SLANTS CONVERGENTLY UPWARDLY AND REARWARDLY TO SAID DISCHARGE OPENING AND DEFINES THE LOWER EDGE THEREOF; (B) OPPOSITE SIDE WALLS JOINED BY SAID BOTTOM WALL AND LIKEWISE CONVERGING REARWARDLY TO SAID DISCHARGE OPENING TO DEFINE THE SIDE EDGES THEREOF; (C) REINFORCING KEEL STRUCTURE FIXED ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE BODY AND INCLUDING (1) A RIGID YOKE EMBRACING THE ROUNDED BOTTOM OF THE BODY AND EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THEREACROSS AT A LOCATION NEAR TO BUT A DISTANCE FORWARDLY FROM THE LOWER EDGE OF THE DISCHARGE OPENING SO AS TO PROVIDE A SPACE DIRECTLY UNDER THE REAR OF THE BODY AND BEHIND THE YOKE IN WHICH A PORTION OF THE RECEIVING DISTRIBUTING CHUTE CAN BE RECEIVED, SAID YOKE HAVIN OPPOSITE ENDS WHICH PROJECT LATERALLY BEYOND THE ADJACENT SIDE PORTIONS OF THE BODY; (D) OUTBOARD BEARINGS FIXED TO THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE YOKE AT ITS REAR, SO AS TO BE LOCATED OUTWARDLY OF THE ADJACENT SIDE PORTIONS OF THE BODY AND OF SAID PAN RECEIVING SPACE, SAID BEARINGS HAVING PIVOT ENGAGING MEANS THEREON WHICH ALIGN ON A COMMON TRANSVERSE AXIS PASSING THROUGH SAID SPACE REARWARDLY OF THE YOKE AND DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE DISCHARGE OPENING TO PROVIDE FOR MOUNTING THE BODY FOR TILTING DISCHARGE MOTION; (E) AND POWER DRIVEN MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN THE REAR END PORTION OF THE BODY AND HAVING DISCHARGE BLADE MEANS AT THE REAR EXTERMITY OF THE BODY TO OPERATE IN SAID DISCHARGE OPENING.