Born: 30 December 1924, Australia
Died: 30 December 2015
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Joan Mosely
This biography has been shared from The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Joan Stuckey was the inventor of three separate award-winning air cushions designed for pressure relief. These are now used around the world by hospitals and by people in wheelchairs. The first was the Push Cush which was designed in 1980 to reduce the incidence of deep vein thrombosis for air travellers. Next came the C’AireCush seat used by the wheelchair-bound to reduce the incidence of pressure sores and improve balance and comfort. These cushions have since discovered a wider market which includes people suffering from haemorrhoids and by women after childbirth. In response to numerous requests Stuckey later came up with the C’AireCush Pressure Distributed Mattress Overlay which was used to improve the comfort of the bedridden. The latter two inventions won gold Medals at the Exhibition of Inventions.
She was a member and active committee member of the Inventors Association of Australia.
Chronology
1951
Life event – Married Allan Eric Stuckey, in Sydney, New South Wales
1959
Patent – Improvements in and relating to fly screens [54786/1959]
1980
Award – Push Cush received a silver medal, 1980 International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland
1981
Patent – Inflatable multi-compartment exercise device [69433/1981]
1981 – 2013
Trade mark – Push Cush, Trade mark registered [362466]
1982
Award – Second Individual Inventor, Techex 1982, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1983 – 2005
Trade mark – C’AireCush, Trade mark registered [388424]
2015
Buried – Cremated, Macquarie Park Crematorium