How Can a Plastic Pen Cap Save Your Life?

Seemingly the most casual and the cheapest pen, for which you have surely never thought about, how is it like and why the cap. It has a detail which can not be seen by anyone and we don’t know why is it for, but it can save many human lives.

If you take a good look at the cap, you will see that its top is hollow.

We all know that little children put everything in their mouths, but also the adults can often chew it when they are in deep thinking or simply rotate it into their mouths.

The most horrifying thing can happen precisely in these unaware situations: to swallow the cap into your trachea and not to be able to breathe clearly.

Because of this caution, the designers of “Cristal Pen” came up with the perfect idea: to make the cap shallow, so that in case you swallow it, you will be able to have enough oxygen through that opening and not choke until the ambulance comes.

From the same reasons, also the sticks made for lollipops are shallow.

This solution is supported by all of the pen manufacturers and the British Standards Institute made corrections in their manuals for manufacturing and usage.

"A good design can be seen immediately, while a great design is not even noticed".