US Patent Issued to The Heil on Sept. 30 for "Refuse packer system with auger" (Alabama, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,223, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Refuse packer system with auger" was invented by Mark Fraas (Centre, Ala.), Eric Evans (Fort Payne, Ala.), Michael Shane Peek (Pisgah, Ala.), Tracy Mason (Mentone, Ala.), Tapankumar Pandya (Doltewah, Tenn.), Bryan White (Fort Payne, Ala.) and Taher Taiyeb Basrai (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse collection vehicle having a packer system, a hopper, and a storage compartment. A wall between the storage compartment and the hopper defines an opening that allows refuse to pass from the hopper to the storage compartment. The packer syste...