The Paper towel pump is an all-in-one cleanup kit that integrates a paper towel holder with a removable spray pump.

The paper towel pump was designed to be a space saving and convenient cleanup kit for your kitchen and any room that needs cleaning and sanitizing. Some of the challenges we faced was to design a spray pump that fit into the center of a tube that a paper towel roll could slide onto, while still maintaining enough volume to be useful. We also wanted to make it portable, so the product had to have a handy way of carrying it around from room to room.

Our solution was to make the spray pump lock into place for carrying, but with a gentle press on the top be released so that it could be removed from the center rod for usage. The paper towel holder has a mechanical arm that creates friction to make tearing paper towels off easy, and much time was spent studying the user experience of the pump itself, with factors taken into account such as the amount of force needed to press the button, the distance necessary to make it work, the amount of liquid that was to be dispensed when pressed, and the actual pattern of the spray.

The base is weighted to create stability and the top of the base was simplified from the previous generation to make it easier to clean.

Category:HouseholdYear:2024Designers:Myk Lum, LDA Design Team, LDA, Irvine, California, USA and Frank Yang, simplehuman, Torrance, California, USAManufacturer:simplehuman, Torrance, California, USA