ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,754, issued on April 7, was assigned to Vermeer Manufacturing Co. (Pella, Iowa).
"Round baler crop pickups" was invented by Grant Hoppes (Pella, Iowa), Calvin Meinders (Pella, Iowa) and Andrew Irlbeck (Pella, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A round baler includes a bale formation chamber and a rotor device having a plurality of teeth, the teeth having outer tips that define a circumferential path of travel of the rotor device. The round baler also includes a crop pickup device including a plurality of pickup tines connected to a rotating pickup reel and a plurality of stripper bands, each of the plurality of pickup tines passing ...