patent invention disclosure

patent invention disclosure
I have money for this machine twice, once in about 1974 and then again in the last four years or so. Let's start back in the early'70s, when I first started the project. I was in my early 20s and one day, bored, and I asked my father if he invent something that is needed. He told me, ' ", an asparagus harvester". "He was a farmer and an asparagus producers.

I have some interesting ideas, how could you go about building a selective asparagus harvester, and went to my friends and family begging for money. I was in a position to several thousand dollars in seed money. I have the money to a rudimentary prototype. I built it from angle iron and motorcycle wheels. It had a Sears air compressor, 4 air cylinders with blades, and a house in the electronics package with an optical sensor system. It could detect and Spears for them, but I have not found out how it still up in time.

I went to a local accountant who had found the funding for my brother, a book about the local agricultural community, and asked him if he knew of anyone who might be willing to finance our machine.

He has in fact know someone. He took me into contact with the widow of the owner of a local computer shop that she runs. They saw a demonstration of my little prototype depressed that I have the row with Asparagus simulated with the hand. It impressed them enough that they told me if I could show a way of picking up the spears and cut them to finance the project. Two weeks later I demonstrated a rudimentary pickup system, and we cut a deal. You pay me a salary and her shop split the ownership of the harvester with my original group of investors.

We have several prototype machines over a period of 10 years, and we were at the beginning of some real progress. Selective harvesting asparagus is a very difficult task. Many inventors over the years have tried, and millions of dollars have been spent in the pursuit of a selective asparagus harvester, but so far no success.

Unfortunately we realized too late that there is simply no market for an asparagus harvester. Hand labor was inexpensive and easy to find, and so there were no farmers in the slightest interested in a mechanical harvester. In 1984, we parked the machine in a shed at Geiger Manufacturing in Stockton California and I moved on.

It was in 2003, I think when I spoke to an asparagus producer, and he told me he would be his right arm for a selective asparagus harvester. That led me to think, and I drove into the city behind and through the gate at Geiger Manufacturing. It was a Saturday and the store was closed, but I could see through the gate that the harvester still parked in the hall, where we are almost 20 years ago.

The patents, which we based our previous joint venture on had expired years, and has a long way in the last 20 years. I approached Geiger production and develop an agreement. They would work the workshop, and we could call the old machine, and I would make the engineering and patented several new features.

We have a small maintenance work on the machine a couple of air in the tires and took it to the asparagus fields. I wanted to implement some of the new technology available, but we do not have the means. I have a website and clear, what I'm trying to do, along with my contact details.

My site has attracted the attention of the Washington State University, and professor came to see my machine run, even though it is outside of the season. I was in a position to make a series of shoots in a local farm, and by lowering the ferns, the spears began to grow again. I have the device a number of shoots and excuses for the problems.

Washington State University was impressed and could see the potential of the machine. It ended funding me for the last 4 or 5 years for which total more than $ 200,000. They decided to fund a machine from New Zealand last season instead of my computer, and I think they now have all the expenses of the funds they had.

It would have been nice to take another year of funding, but we are now ready to market the harvester anyway, and we are about to do exactly that. Wish me luck.

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