by
George Langford, Sc.D.
Updated December 30, 2016
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| Other inventors/makers |
Here is a selection of leftover designs, some of them one-off hybrids (such as 182), some single examples (such as 181, 165, 174, 155, 164, 169, and 166) some owner-made (such as 144 and 45)
and one pair of braces with two equivalent patents by different
inventors but made by the same company, a violation of patent law: 114 and 154; both inventors claimed to be the sole inventor. |
| Patentee/ Associate | Representative Images (right-click & view image) | Examples Found by GB | Patents (same order as examples) | Patent Dates (chronological order) | Directory
of American
Toolmakers: active years |
| Cook |
 |
RansomCookPatentAugerBits.htm | 8,162 RE2513 13,780 |
June 17, 1851 March 19, 1867 |
1852-1868 (Ransom Cook) |
| Jennings |
 |
RussellJenningsAugerBits04232008.htm | 12,318 | January 30, 1855 |
1853-1944 (Russell Jennings Mfg. Co.) |
| Isaac Davidson; Arthur Jennings/ Russell Jennings Co. |
 |
Russell Jennings patent brace & bits | 753,241 1,004,572 1,127,007 |
Mar. 1, 1904 Oct. 3, 1911 Feb. 2, 1915 |
1904 (Isaac Davidson) 1911-1915 (Arthur Jennings) |
| William Tucker; Quimby Backus unknown |
 |
182 | 23,326 132,791 |
March 22, 1859 November 5, 1872 |
1859-1865 (Tucker Mfg. Co.) 1868-1880 (Quimby Backus) |
| Milton Nobles/ Nobles Mfg. Co. |
 |
181 | 48,346 |
June 20, 1865 |
1857-1876 (Nobles Mfg. Co.) |
| A.W. Streeter/ Shepardson & Co. |
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165 | 61,113 |
January 8, 1867 |
1855-1876 (Shepardson & Co.) 1855-1871 (A.W. Streeter) |
| H.S. Bartholomew/ H.S. Bartholomew |
 |
174 | 103,281 |
May 24, 1870 |
1861-1879 (H.S. Bartholomew) |
| H.S. Shepardson/ Shepardson & Co. |
  |
155 | 100,458 |
March 1, 1870 |
1855-1876 (Shepardson & Co.) |
| Sylvester Wright/ unknown maker |
  |
164 | 145,710 |
December 16, 1873 |
1873 (Sylvester Wright) |
| William Clarkson/ unknown maker |
 |
168 | 286,388 |
October 9, 1883 |
1850 (William Clarkson) |
| Hiram Fuller; or William Bullard/ Fuller Bit Brace Co. or Fuller Mfg. Co. |
  |
114, 154 | 320,868 347,417 |
June 23, 1885 August 17, 1886 |
unknown (Fuller Bit Brace Co.) 1885 (Fuller Mfg. Co.) |
| Unknown/ unknown |
 |
139 | 293,957 612,712 |
February 19, 1884 October 18, 1898 |
The ratchet mechanism remains unidentified ... |
| Steward |
 |
JFSteward084.htm | 460,256 | September 29,1891 |
Located in remote storage |
| Unknown/ A.T.W. |
 |
169 | 12,289 |
January 23, 1855 |
Abel Streeter's patent used for illustration of technique only. |
| Unknown/ McLaughlin |
 |
166 | 935,047 175,105 103,281 |
September 28, 1909 March 21, 1876 May 24, 1870 |
Too much prior art ... |
| Unknown/ Winkelhouse |
  |
65 | 95,060 |
September 21, 1869 |
Winkelhouse patent used only for illustration. |
| Unknown/ Millers Falls |
  |
144 | None |
Not applicable |
May be a Millers Falls ball-bearing chuck. |
| Unknown/ blacksmith |
  |
45 | None |
Not applicable | Blacksmith-made; patterned after Spofford design. |
| Unknown/Consol. Toolworks |
 |
ConsolidatedToolworks383.htm | None |
Not applicable |
"Pat.App'd For" |
| John Leland; William Ruger/ Millers Falls ? |
  |
Ruger-D151719-braces-01252008.htm | D151,719 912,582 |
November 9, 1948; February 16,1909 |
Three braces: Ruger; A.R.T.I.S.A.N.;Seymour Smith. |