Sound Approach Ltd is developing dispensers for wet wipes for use in medical and commercial establishments.

该项目基于这样一个事实，即医疗和商业部门对可靠的湿纸巾机的需求被压抑。以前的TSB拨款导致了湿巾的密封软包（HSSPs）的设计，湿巾以单片分发，并且湿巾始终保持新鲜，现在使得从分配器内部署这些软包湿巾是可行的。金伯利克拉克（K-C）正在正式评估他们的婴儿湿巾和可冲洗湿巾市场。因此，该项目现在将解决与如何在分配器内部署这些hssp和湿巾桶相关的技术挑战和设计问题。将特别强调开发一个防傻瓜系统，以确保特定的分配器只接受正确的擦拭类型。这种“区分系统”将确保，例如，含有刺激性化学浸渍物的湿巾不会被错误地放置在婴儿换尿布区域的分配器中，也不会被错误地放置在用于清洁卧床病人的湿巾的分配器中。这样的错误可能会对婴儿或卧床病人的皮肤造成伤害，甚至导致法律诉讼。该公司已经为这种差异化系统申请了专利，该系统具有保护消耗品形状免受模仿者的额外好处，从而保护被许可方的长期消耗品业务。K-C对即将开发的分配器的样品非常感兴趣，如果原型能够按照预期优雅地交付，他们可能会对分配器进行市场测试。

The project is predicated on the fact that there is pent up demand for reliable wet wipedispensers within the medical and commercial sectors.A previous TSB grant has resulted in the design of hermetically sealed soft packs (HSSPs) ofwet wipes from which wipes dispense in single sheets and within which the wipes alwaysremain fresh now makes deploying these soft packs of wipes from within dispensers feasible.Kimberly Clark (K-C) is officially evaluating them for their baby wipes & flushable wipesmarketsThis project will therefore now address the technical challenges and design issues relating tohow to deploy these HSSPs and tubs of wet wipes within dispensers. Particular emphasis willbe paid to developing a fool proof system to ensure that specific dispensers will only acceptthe correct wipe types. This 'differentiator system' will ensure that wipes with, say, a harshchemical impregnate cannot be erroneously placed into a dispenser located within a babychanging area or into dispensers reserved for wipes that are to be used to cleanse bed boundpatients. Such mistakes could result in harm to the skin of the baby or bed bound patient - andeven law suits.The company has patented such a differentiator system which has the added benefit ofprotecting the shape of the consumable from imitators thereby safeguarding the licensees longterm consumable business.K-C are keenly interested in seeing samples of the dispensers to be developed which couldlead to them possibly market testing the dispensers if the prototypes can be shown to elegantlydeliver as per expectations.