One-Piece Adjustable, Reusable, Washable, Biodegradeable, Face-Shield Visor Head Bands

一件式可重复使用面罩头带应对COVID-19个人防护装备短缺，不仅适用于临床和护理人员，还适用于交通、零售和公众。该项目将扩大目前使用3D打印的高效设计，在英国使用注塑成型实现更实际的商业批量。这种新设计避免了额外的组件，如吸收性材料，使消毒和重复使用成为可能。它将由生物可降解材料制成，以尽量减少个人防护装备对环境的影响。这些综合策略意味着遮阳帽带可以多次重复使用，并被负责任地处理，节省了许多一次性遮阳帽的成本和它们造成的浪费。该项目不仅将创建工具，而且将生产目标的第一批50,000遮阳板带。影响延期将允许我们做四件事：1。与特定的英国生物聚合物供应商合作，将高清晰度PLA转换为面罩面罩所需的厚度。PLA薄膜通常只用于20-50微米厚度的包装。我们需要150-200微米以上的薄膜来制作有效稳定的遮阳板。将这种薄膜转化为可消耗的遮阳板将为我们提供一个完整的产品和100%生物降解的面罩，由一种具有共同报废策略的材料制成，同时在欧盟创造库存，在替代塑料方面有其他应用。对我们现有的生物聚合物遮阳板头带和新的遮阳板进行测试，以符合相关的可堆肥性和PPE安全性标准。为我们的第一阶段工作申请专利和外观设计注册。资助我们正在进行的开发工作，并支持我们利用第一阶段成果的工作，包括安排分发个人防护装备。（在第一阶段，我们92%的预算分配给了工具和生产PPE，而不是我们的劳动力。）

One piece reusable visor head bands responding to the COVID-19 PPE shortages not just for clinical and care staff but wider adoption by transport, retail, and the general public. This project will scale up an efficient design currently made using 3D printing, to more practical commercial volumes with injection moulding in the UK. This new design avoids extra components such as absorbent materials, making it possible to sanitise and reuse. It will be made with bio-degradeable materials to minimise the environmental impact of PPE. These combined strategies mean the visor band can be reused multiple times and be disposed of responsibly, saving the cost of many disposable visors and the waste they'd cause. This project will not only create the tooling but manufacture a target an initial batch of 50,000 visor bands. The Extension for Impact will allow us to do 4 things:1. Work with a specific UK Biopolymer supplier to convert high clarity PLA to the thickness required for face visor shields. PLA film is commonly available for packaging only in 20-50micron thickness. We require 150-200+ micron film for an effective and stable visor shield. Converting this film into consumable visor sheets will give us a complete product and 100% bio-degradeable faceshield made from one material with a common end-of-life strategy, as well as creating stock in the EU that has other applications in replacing plastics.2. Testing of our existing Biopolymer Visor Headband and new visor sheets against relevant standards for compostability and PPE safety.3. Apply for a patent and design registrations for our Phase 1 work.4. Fund our ongoing development work and support our work to exploit the results of Phase 1 including arrangements to distribute PPE. (In phase 1 our budget was 92% allocated to tooling and manufacturing PPE not our labour.)