Product

[Pearcyy]

I’ve had an idea of a new product that would fit onto the end of a certain type of aerosol that already exists with a few different manufacturers to solve a specific problem.

I think it would work and would be cheap to make as its basically just a cap on an aerosol, it won’t be a massive product but i think people of a certain trade would find it useful.

I wouldn’t like to throw alot of money at it and assume it wouldn’t be patentable or even worth patenting.

Do you think i should try and make this myself and just sell on tiktok shop or something similar or maybe approach one of the manufacturers with my idea?

Haven’t done anything like this before but the idea popped into my head and the odd person i’ve mentioned it to seemed to think it was a good idea so thought i would explore it a little bit.

Thanks.

[Jon39]

Sounds to be something that could be helpful.

For ages I have been annoyed by those supplied plastic tubes, which can be inserted (with difficulty) into the aerosol cap.
Then easily lost.
A eureka moment must have happened at WD40.
They now incorporate a hinged tube, which enables much more accurate squirting.

Just wondered whether your invention might fulfil a similar function.
Good luck. The UK desperately needs new entrepreneurs.

[Pearcyy]

Jon39 said:

Sounds to be something that could be helpful.

For ages I have been annoyed by those supplied plastic tubes, which can be inserted (with difficulty) into the aerosol cap.
Then easily lost.
A eureka moment must have happened at WD40.
They now incorporate a hinged tube, which enables much more accurate squirting.

Just wondered whether your invention might fulfil a similar function.
Good luck. The UK desperately needs new entrepreneurs.

Not quite as useful as that, i am being quite vague at the minute but its a special type of aerosol for a specific job that lots of trades use, but i think with a different cap could make a task easier for trade i’m in.

The only concern really is that people have been doing it a different way for years and are probably used to doing it that way and if they’d see it as a worthwhile thing to buy as its not something you’d use all the time. People that do the job commercially would probably use it a fair bit but not alot domestically but they’d all probably already have the aerosol already as its widely used.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Can you patent it and then look to license it with one of the big manufacturers / brands

[StevieBee]

Pearcyy said:

assume it wouldn t be patentable or even worth patenting.

Why do you think that? If the idea is original then it can be patented.

I suggest you think differently about how to monetise the idea. If you have several different manufacturers making a very similar product then they will each be looking for ways to out-market their competition. If your idea offers the consumer an advantage or benefit that doesn't cost that much, then offering your invention to one of those manufacturers would, I would think, be attractive to them.

Whatever you do, you will need to spend your own money to get it to a marketable stage so do you sums early!