Inventors bring plenty of new ideas at Wyoming Conference

POWELL – Build a better mousetrap, the saying goes, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Billings inventor Joseph Grooms is hoping the same is true of lobster traps.

"I’ve been inventing all my life," said Grooms, who has applied for a patent on a new kind of trap for lobsters, crabs, crawfish and other crustaceans. He also is trying to patent a dog harness he fashioned from a modified horse halter.

"I even invented a better way to get a good fit for my false teeth. I can eat corn on the cob, or anything I want," said Grooms, a retired painter, as he removed his teeth to show off his handiwork.

By RUFFIN PREVOST
Gazette Wyoming Bureau

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