ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,959, issued on June 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Container lifting and emptying device" was invented by Jorg Hausecker (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Thomas Kurz (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container lifting and emptying device (1), including a movable frame (2), a slide (18) which can be moved on the frame (2) in a vertical direction, and a container pivoting device (19) which is mounted on the slide (18) and which is designed to grip a container (8) located on a container stack (6, 7) from above via multiple latches (24, 25)."
The patent was filed ...