US Patent Issued to The Heil on Sept. 8 for "Bi-stable band actuator" (Alabama, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,057, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Bi-stable band actuator" was invented by Mark Fraas (Centre, Ala.) and Phillip Kendrick (Statham, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front-loading refuse vehicle includes: a chassis; a cab coupled to a portion of the chassis, a hopper coupled to the chassis of the cab, and an arm assembly configured to move a refuse container from a location on one side of the refuse collection vehicle. The arm assembly includes a refuse container holder and a boom configured to move the refuse container holder relative to the chassis between an extended position and a retr...