Wagon-Mounted Fire Escape Ladder

Joseph R. Winters

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Born

1824

Birthplace

Leesburg, Virginia

U.S. Patent(s)

US203517

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Inventor

Joseph R. Winters

U.S. Patent No. US203517

Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824– November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number US203517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number US214224 for an improvement on the ladder. On May 16, 1882, he received U.S. Patent number US258186 for a fire escape ladder that could be affixed to buildings.

Joseph R. Winters was born in Leesburg, Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee Indian mother, who was the daughter of a noted herbalist and medical practitioner referred to as the “Indian doctor woman.” The family relocated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania around 1840. Joseph Winters worked as a farmer, and later as a mechanic for the Cumberland Valley Railroad.

As local cities and towns began to erect taller builders, Winters noted that firemen were required to remove ladders from horse-drawn wagons to access windows on higher floors to aid residents and battle fires. Winters was inspired to invent the necessary tool to meet the required specifications of fire fighters, specifically, the ladders would have be extendible from their mounting on fire wagons.

Winters built a fire wagon made with a mounted ladder that could be folded for his hometown of Chambersburg and received a patent for it on May 7, 1878. He received a second patent for an improved design on April 8, 1879.

Three years later in 1882, Winters received a patent for a fire escape ladder that could be attached to buildings.

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Wagon-Mounted Fire Escape Ladder

Joseph R. Winters

Black Inventors, Black Inventions, African American Inventors, African American Inventors, African American Newspaper, Black Newspaper, African American Magazine, Black Magazine, African American History, Black History, African American Wealth, Black Wealth, African American Health, Black Health, African American Economics, Black Economics, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN Books, KINDR'D Magazine, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter, African American Art, Black Art, African American Politics, Black Politics, African American City, Black City, African American People, Black People, Allegory, Segregation, Racism, Reparations
U.S. Patent No. US203517

Biography

Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824– November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number US203517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number US214224 for an improvement on the ladder. On May 16, 1882, he received U.S. Patent number US258186 for a fire escape ladder that could be affixed to buildings.

Joseph R. Winters was born in Leesburg, Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee Indian mother, who was the daughter of a noted herbalist and medical practitioner referred to as the "Indian doctor woman." The family relocated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania around 1840. Joseph Winters worked as a farmer, and later as a mechanic for the Cumberland Valley Railroad.

As local cities and towns began to erect taller builders, Winters noted that firemen were required to remove ladders from horse-drawn wagons to access windows on higher floors to aid residents and battle fires. Winters was inspired to invent the necessary tool to meet the required specifications of fire fighters, specifically, the ladders would have be extendible from their mounting on fire wagons.

Winters built a fire wagon made with a mounted ladder that could be folded for his hometown of Chambersburg and received a patent for it on May 7, 1878. He received a second patent for an improved design on April 8, 1879.

Three years later in 1882, Winters received a patent for a fire escape ladder that could be attached to buildings.

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Born – 1824

Birthplace – Leesburg, Virginia

U.S. Patent(s) – US203517

Source(s) – Wikipedia