Caulco by Robert Jeeves

Born from the bright mind of student Robert Jeeves, the concept behind the Caulco gun was initially developed to serve as a final year project at his university, the Loughborough Design School in Leicestershire, UK.

For those who are not accustomed with the most basic house maintenance works, the purpose of the gun would not be straightforward if not through an explanation: these devices are the ones used to fit sealing cartridges and are, for the most part, especially uncomfortable to handle. The innovative design applied to Caulco however, optimizes the functionality of the caulking instruments by eliminating common problems found in both manual and electric guns, having to do with being excessively heavy and therefore cause of wrist fatigue. Jeeves’s creation is still capable of dispensing standard sized tubes of sealant or adhesive by using disposable carbon dioxide canisters, material which greatly improves the weight problem.

In addition, the innovative design of the gun confers to it excellent portability, which is essential to keep a good balance of the machine during use and to produce a smooth, unbroken bead of caulk.
The idea for Caulco was elaborated after a thorough study of the existing market for caulking guns, which led to the interesting discovery that none of the products available were both cheap and easy to use. After working on a series of prototypes, the final version design, which is now patent pending, proved to be very successful. It has in fact been recently selected for the New Designers exhibition in London, one of the most important graduate exhibitions in the UK introducing over 3,500 examples of innovation and fresh thinking, and is also one of the two projects chosen to represent the Loughborough University in the 2012 Individual Degree Prize Award, through which excellence in engineering and design is prized each year.