Patent ID: 8702367

Claim:
A method for preparing material, comprising the steps of: providing a transport vehicle including a horizontal ejector and a basin that at least partially defines a basin opening, wherein the horizontal ejector engages at least one of a first material and a second material disposed in the basin; loading the first material into the basin proximate the horizontal ejector; loading the second material into the basin proximate the basin opening; and without changing a vertical orientation of the basin, evacuatin both of the first material and the second material from the basin by actuating the horizontal ejector for causing horizontal stroke movement of the horizontal ejector from a retracted position toward a deployed position for horizontally ejecting at least a portion the second material through the basin opening before any of the first material is ejected in response to the horizontal stroke movement of the horizontal elector and then subsequently horizontally ejecting the first material through the basin opening in response to the horizontal stroke movement of the horizontal ejector.