Servicing washrooms is a tough job. You never really know how much paper towel is going to be used. When the roll runs out, it just sits empty until a janitor can get to it to service it again. When the janitor is a service, it becomes even more difficult to keep the supply of paper flowing and the washroom serviced effectively.
This patented design featured a mechanism to automatically join the end of a roll of paper towel onto the beginning of the next roll so that the serviceman would have the length of an entire roll to come and replace the paper before it would run out. A huge big fat margin of a few hundred wipes versus it just running out and sitting empty.
It took eighteen months to develop the mechanism to be reliable and cope with the stretchy nature of paper towel. Simple solutions for the consumer, can often require a lot of development and refinement in the background, but in the end it delivers a vastly improved experience for users of washrooms and a sense of satisfaction for the janitor.
This product was designed as one in a range of new products for Calmic which included a Sanitary Towel Bin, Air Freshener, Bug Spray, Urinal Sanitizer, Soap Dispenser and the Paper Towel Dispenser.