NEW ELDORADOS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 9

NEW ELDORADOS

People with Ideas There 's money — tens of thoueands of pounds— awaiting people who can go the right way about earning it now that Britain is enjoying a great prosperity wave. Especially for women — in eocial • lifo of London as weU as in the sphere of invention anywhere. So great are the opportunities in the inventive field to-day that the Institnte of Patentees is making a drive, particularly in the Midlands and the North,.te find women who have ideas for domestie "gadgets." Tho sums whieh women inventors can collect for their brain-waves vary from a few hundred ponnds to fivefigures fortunes. "It is nothing unusual, ' ' an oflicial of the Institute told a reportcr, "for a really clever patent with a wide application to net a profit of £50,000. "The most productive field at the moment is domestic. There are a dozen major domestic needs which call for fresh ideas, and it is here that women inventors have the advantage over men. Try These — "Here are some of the everyday needs which women inventors might concentrate upon: — "A garden chair which automatiealiy adjusts itself to uneven ground. "Inexpensive dish and plate-washing j machine. "A card-ihdesing system in which each card can be turned over without handling— and turned fast or slow at will (for office work.) ' 'Device to make windows clos® automatiealiy when it rains. "Non-alcholic drink which won't pall on. the palate. - "Simple, tidv, antomatie shoe-clean-ing machine. "Automatic cradle-roeking machine. "A dart-board which automatiealiy registers the score after every throw." Any one of these ideas, successfully tackled, would mean hundreds or thousands to the patehtee. "In October we shall hold an exhibi* tion in Sheffield and the next month in Leeds. ' 'These are areas whieh hitherto have been scarcely tapped for inventive talent. Wfi believe that the natural shrewdness of north- eountry people, aUied to years of technical experience, will produce jnst the type of practical ideas for which we are searching."