"Most of my designs are problem led," writes a designer who only goes by the name Product Tank, "and come about because friends of friends and family of family mention that they struggle to do this or that, they say 'Why hasn't some bright spark managed to solve the problem of...?'"
To that end, Mr. Tank has redesigned the clothes pin, seen above.
Inspired by watching a neighbour struggle to hang out her washing using traditional pegs because she suffers from arthritis, I have redesigned the clothes peg. My design features a locking mechanism and a flexible rubber grip that rests against the clothes. If clothes try to slip off the line, the rubber grip is displaced, increasing the pressure on the clothes. This allows a very light spring (the same type used in push top pens) to be used, so that anyone with weak/painful grip can more easily open and close the peg.
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