Blaine Lilly Part of Team That Prototypes New Child-Resistant Spray Bottle

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Blaine Lilly is part of a team of researchers from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University who have developed a prototype for child-resistant spray bottles for household cleaning products. If produced, the prototype would provide an alternative to current, more harmful child-resistant spray bottles while still meeting U.S. Consumer Product Safety commission standards for child resistance.

To develop concepts and design a child-resistant spray bottle, Dr. Lara McKenzie’s research group at Nationwide Children’s hospital partnered with Ohio State Professors Carolina Gill, MS, BSID, and Scott Shim, MA, BFA, from the Department of Design and Professor Blaine Lilly, PhD, from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Together, they developed a distinct method for making spray bottles essentially unusable by children younger than six years of age.

“The two-stage trigger mechanism design restricts the ability of young children to trigger spray bottles because they lack the development capability to perform the correct operational sequence and because their hand size and strength are not sufficient to activate the mechanism,” said Dr. Lilly. “The spray mechanism is designed to be extremely challenging for young children to operate, yet will allow adults comfortable use.”

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