Sign makers worldwide often use a corrugated plastic board known as Twinflute (or Correx) when printing temporary signs for clients.
The result is a fit-for-purpose professional sign, promptly vandalised by the client.
Struggling to effectively mount the sign onto a post, clients have no choice but to puncture the board by hand to allow for fixing holes. To make matters worse, it is then further ruined when tied tightly to a post with cable ties, string or wire as if not tied tightly, it will; slip to the ground, spin around or face backwards.
The once perfect sign is finally displayed as a careless message, wrapped haphazardly around a telegraph pole or lamppost, barely seen and unsuitable for re-use. It is certainly not fit-for-purpose and yet, this is the only means available.
That was until SignClip, the Buckinghamshire-based inventors, designed a clear two-part plastic clip that cleverly pierces straight through the board - allowing the sign to be sandwiched and strengthened between the two parts.
Pat Lennard was walking home one day when he stopped to read the notice that would prompt him to find a solution to the poorly displayed signs across Britain. The local authority were advertising an upcoming road closure and because it had been spiral wrapped with adhesive tape, Pat had to walk round and round the sign pole to read the details. "Having to go to all the effort of walking around the post to read the sign fired my thoughts to find an answer and I began to look how notices were displayed," says Pat.
After fixing with these new clips, taking the sign down is just as straightforward; no need to spend ages pulling off twisted tape just a quick snip of the cable tie. If necessary, the sign can be used again - just attach new cable ties.
This very clever piece of engineering allows cable ties, wire or even string to secure the still-perfect sign to a post. Signs have never been presented so expertly.
