Patent ID: 7360843

Claim:
In combination: a wheeled frame means having a rearward end, a forward end, and first and second sides; said frame means including first and second longitudinally extending frame members; a first upstanding support having upper and lower ends; said first upstanding support secured to said first frame member and extending upwardly therefrom; a second upstanding support having upper and lower ends; said second upstanding support secured to said first frame member and extending upwardly therefrom in a spaced-apart relationship with respect to said first support; first and second cross members secured to said first and second frame members and extending therebetween inwardly of said first and second supports respectively; a first dump body positioned between said first and second supports and being pivotally secured thereto so as to be movable from a transport position to a dumping position at said first side of said frame means; said first dump body including a front wall portion, a back wall portion, a bottom wall portion, and first and second side wall portions; said bottom wall portion of said first dump body having a centrally located rectangular-shaped opening formed therein which extends generally parallel to said front and back wall portions; a first elongated, hollow upstanding casing member having an open bottom portion, a closed top portion, a front wall, a back wall spaced from said front wall, a first end and a second end; said first casing member being positioned in said dump body and secured thereto so that said open bottom portion thereof is positioned above said rectangular-shaped opening in said bottom wall portion of said dump body; a third upstanding support secured to said first frame member and extending upwardly therefrom and having upper and lower ends; a third cross member secured to and extending between said first and second frame members between said first and second cross members; a first hydraulic cylinder having a base end and a rod end; said base end of said first hydraulic cylinder being operatively pivotally secured to said third cross member and extending upwardly and transversely therefrom towards said first side of said frame means so as to be received by the interior of said casing member; said rod end of said first hydraulic cylinder being pivotally secured to said casing member adjacent said first end beneath said closed top portion thereof; extension of said first hydraulic cylinder causing said first dump body to pivotally move with respect to said first and second supports from its said transport position to its said dumping position; retraction of said hydraulic cylinder causing said first dump body to pivotally move with respect to said first and second supports from its said dumping position to its said transport position.