US Patent Issued to Con-Tech Manufacturing on Aug. 12 for "Robust grabber arm for refuse collection vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,617, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Con-Tech Manufacturing Inc. (Dodge Center, Minn.).

"Robust grabber arm for refuse collection vehicle" was invented by Grant McNeilus (Dodge Center, Minn.), Garwin McNeilus (Dodge Center, Minn.) and Brian Meldahl (Dodge Center, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robust grabber arm for use as part of a refuse collection vehicle has an inner arm member and an outer arm member which are designed to have parallel beams coupled to one another so that a wide operating profile is created. Further, care is taken in configuring compounds so that each of the hinge points and coupling points are access...