摘要 |
A vehicle having a side-loading bucket assembly. The bucket is mounted on arms attached to a shaft which pivots to move the bucket from a lower material-receiving position to an upper material-discharging position. The bucket is capable of limited rotation with respect to its mounting arms when it reaches the discharging position in order to compress the material in the vehicle. A locking mechanism normally holds the bucket in a fixed position with respect to its mounting arms and this mechanism is automatically released when the bucket reaches the discharging position. A hold down bar is normally positioned to retain material in the vehicle and is retracted out of the path of the bucket as it reaches its material-discharging position.
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