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This article is great, thank you. The Gyropalette is attributed in this article as a spanish invention but I believe the patent holders are french.
Hi Sandeep, The Gyropalette is French, but it's based off of the Spanish machine, the Girasol. This is confusing because there was patent filed in 1968, but this was not a patent for the Gyropalette; it was a patent for a wire cage that would allow many bottles to be turned at once. After this "idea" was patented it took several years before it was fully developed. The main difference between the Girasol and the Gyro is that the former still required a person to run the machine, while the latter was fully automated. The Spanish were using this Girasol as early as the 1970s while the Gyropalette wasn't being used in France until the late 1970s.
In just looking this article over, I had the same question as Sandeep in that I was under the impression the gyropallette was French invented, Spanish used initially.
In searching through patents, I can't find any reference to any 'girasol' machine that's not being used for sunflower production. The only thing that eventually comes up is when searching 'gyropalette' and seeing its patent date as 1980, FR2473546A1.
Just curious as I'd like to have the correct information as so many sources state that it's French.