US Patent Issued to The Heil on June 3 for "Mechanical arm system for collecting garbage from a garbage container" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,497, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Mechanical arm system for collecting garbage from a garbage container" was invented by Claude Boivin (Levis, Canada), Eric Boivin (Quebec, Canada) and Hugo Marsan (Drummondville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mechanical arm system can include a garbage container holder and at least one mast. The holder can have guiding wheels engaged with adjacent tracks of the mast, the two adjacent tracks both having a lower portion extending upwardly along the mast, the lower portion of the first track being located forwardly of the lower portion of the second tr...