The Twister Fruit Picker® was invented by a wheat farmer from Montana who retired to southern California. Norris had many different fruit trees in his backyard, many of which required a ladder to get to the fruit. He and his wife, Dorothy, enjoyed having fresh orange juice for breakfast, but he did not like having to climb a ladder to pick fresh oranges every day. He bought a wire basket fruit picker but was very dissatisfied with it because he felt it was cumbersome, it inevitably damaged his trees, and he often ended up with punctured and damaged fruit. Norris, having other patented inventions under his belt, was convinced that there was a better way to pick fruit. Through much trial and error, The Twister Fruit Picker® emerged as a new innovative way to easily and correctly pick his fru