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Becoming undeformable.
Last week, we posted a horizontal version of this video to YouTube (check it out) and learned from our audience that two pens use a similar wire gate clip - the UniBall One and the Tombow Airpress. We made this video without knowledge of their existence. "If you build it, they will come" - "they" being the pen experts of the world to explain that we weren't the first.
So, we aren't the first to make a wire gate pen, but we are the first to make a cool video about it. May it serve as a guiding light to pen manufactures worldwide.
We want more wire gates.
Let us know what you think of this direction because it could become the clip on our next pen design.
Transcript
When you pass that point, the clip is now plastically deformed, and it's not gonna spring back. Somewhere in my subconscious, I have wanted a pen clip that does not suffer this problem, that you can clip around thick stack of papers that you can fiddle with to your heart's content. We've kind of indirectly, I think, arrived at a way to achieve that in a way that I haven't seen on a pen before, and that's because we came across it while we were exploring rank different type of clipped object. Your most basic type of carabiner is pretty much exactly like your pen clip. It's just a flexure. Suffers from the same problem what the clip has. More common solution you see is the spring assisted assembly. Inside the hollow cavity of that bar is the compression spring. You're no, like, bending the actual gate open. You're just compressing the spring that's within there that is designed to be compressed that amount. But it's, like, an assembly that requires four, sometimes five components. Every component that you add to some assembly is a point of failure, is another part that has to be manufactured, is another step in the assembly
