US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Asparagus lifting apparatus with interfering members, asparagus collection and storage apparatus, and asparagus harvesters formed therewith" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,869, issued on Aug. 12.

"Asparagus lifting apparatus with interfering members, asparagus collection and storage apparatus, and asparagus harvesters formed therewith" was invented by William J. Lund (Seaside, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asparagus harvester includes a chassis movable over a bed of growing asparagus. Spears above a selected height are severed at the ground by a severing assembly. A conveyor receives from a pick-up apparatus and conveys away the severed asparagus spears to bin. In one embodiment, counter-rotating rollers of the pick-up apparatus have interfering members configured to disable the severed aspara...