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Inventors BUSINESS CARD 11/8cm 1950s era
SALLY INVENTED AND PATENTED A CHAIR FOR SEWING SEWING MACHINE STORAGE AND ALL YOUR NEEDLEWORK ETC
SHE DID NOT COMMERCIALLY PRODUCE AS HER CAT RESCUE EFFORTS TOOK UP TOO MUCH CAPITAL!
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DEC. 1957
Cats keep fortune awa
Empire News Reporter MRS. SALLY STIGWOOD (56) should have fortune all sewn up. the trouble is. a But CATS.
She has invented a comfortable fireside chair which any house- wife can switch into a sewing machine in 15 seconds. Since she showed it on TV's
Inventors' Club. scores of orders have poured into her home in Albert-street, Oldham.
But she can't afford to market it because she spends so much money on looking after stray cats.
A dozen
Sally's home became a private hotel for cats the night she picked up a stray. Word spread in the neighbourhood. Children took more cats for her to look after.
Sally always advertises to try to find the owners. If her telephone doesn't ring the cats stay on as residents. She has a dozen at the
moment. Sometimes she has a score. They cost her more than £5 a week. "If I saved that cash I could soon market the invention.
But I couldn't turn the cats away;"
she said.
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HER INVENTION WAS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS FOR PATENT
This invention relates to chairs.
A chair in accordance with the invention has connecting means whereby a sewing machine is or can be connected to and supported by the chair so as to be movable from an inoperative position where it does not interfere with the use of the chair as a chair into a position where can be conveniently used whilst the chair serves as
it
its support or stand.
HARDY
ACE LAND
anecting means may be a cradle-like member The conne pivoted to the chair hair sides and enabling the sewing machine to be swung from either of the said positions into the other whilst being carried by by the said member.
HER PATENT WAS AS FOLLOWS
Patent No. 723126.
RIGHT
☑lizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith: To all to whom these presents shall come greeting:
WHEREAS Sarah Ann Stigwood, of 59, Alfred Street, Werneth, Oldham in the County of Lancaster, a Subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
(hereinafter referred to as the said applicant) hath prayed that a patent advantage of an invention for in or Improvemen may be granted relating to chair her to hinx for the sole unto use and
her