US Patent Issued to MR. FILL HOLDING on May 27 for "Refuse distribution and compaction devices and methods" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,163, issued on May 27, was assigned to MR. FILL HOLDING B.V. (Culemborg, Netherlands).

"Refuse distribution and compaction devices and methods" was invented by Jacob Joost Luinstra (Culemborg, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A top loading refuse distributing and compacting device for mounting above or in the top of a refuse collection container is operable to receive, compact and distribute refuse collected with the container. The device includes a pivotal handling member, which is pivotal between a leftward and rightward guiding position, in which left and right opposed inclined surfaces of the handling member alternating...