US Patent Issued to UNIVERCO (1978) on July 14 for "Tractor-assisted multi-row harvester for root vegetables" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,732, issued on July 14, was assigned to UNIVERCO (1978) INC. (Napierville, Canada).

"Tractor-assisted multi-row harvester for root vegetables" was invented by Carl Bisaillon (Napierville, Canada) and Serge L'Heureux (Napierville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tractor-assisted multi-row harvester for root vegetables includes adjacent pairs of a lifting share and a picker and a pair of traction assemblies, for example in the form of endless track assemblies, one of which being behind and registered with at least one of the adjacent pairs of a lifting share and picker and being motorized and energized so as to compensate at le...