June Eudora Kroenke (October 19, 1925 - November 11, 1993) of

Hartland, Wisconsin Hartland is a village along the Bark River in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States, that is a suburb of Milwaukee. The population was 9,110 at the 2010 census. Geography Hartland is located at (43.100180, −88.344452). It is in the ...

, U.S., was the inventor of several

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

sewing Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era. Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabr ...

tools and founded June Tailor, Inc. in 1962. Kroenke began sewing as a child and her frustration with pressing garments of various shapes led her to design a pressing board out of cardboard. She had the final design constructed out of wood and obtained a patent on her invention. Kroenke founded June Tailor in 1962 and began selling the pressing board and other pressing aids, first out of her basement, and then from a manufacturing facility in Richfield, Wisconsin. In 1976, her business had expanded to 24 products and the original pressing board, which had 12 different-shaped surfaces, remained the most popular item. Kroenke's patented inventions include: * Contour pressing forms (sold as "June Tailor Board", a type of pressing buck), patent number , issued 1965 * Contour pressing boards, patent number , issued 1966 * Contour pressing board, patent number , issued 1966 * Universal pressing ham support, patent number , issued 1979 * Cushioned needlework blocking board, patent number , issued 1982 * Integrated cutting and pressing board including marking scale on the handle, patent number , issued 1995

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* 1925 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American inventors People from Hartland, Wisconsin Women inventors {{US-inventor-stub