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Liquid Shade Inc
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Inventor’s design to cool GU8 soccer team evolves into portable misting station now sold retail
Liquid Shade reduces risk for heat-stressed sports teams of all ages
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Liquid Shade is a self-contained battery operated cooling system provides instant relief for heat-stressed athletes of all ages by lowering ambient temperature up to 30 degrees. It refreshes and energizes up to eight people within a 10-foot radius of the unit.
Ideal for outdoor sports teams competing in warm weather, Liquid Shade improves any lineup’s performance since athletes play better when they feel better. The rugged, durable self-contained unit is lightweight and its large thread rubber wheels and retractable pull handle make it easy to roll from the car onto any field. Liquid Shade’s reservoir holds 2.9 gallons of water and delivers hours of misting relief. The Mister achieves evaporative cooling by transferring water molecules as it sprays mist into the air. At the top of a telescopic riser that extends up to 70” high, is a quick disconnect mist head with four brass mist nozzles.
The patent pending product evolved over several years of design improvements from an inauspicious yet ingenious start. The Company’s Vice President of Engineering, Edic Sliva, was assistant coach for his daughter’s Girls Under
8 soccer team in Northern California, and could see his team constantly distressed by the Indian Summer heat wave sweeping the area during a weekend tournament. Between games, he scoured his garage workshop and cobbled together a self-contained system to help refresh and revitalize the team. Using spare parts from a hand-pumped sprayer, a drip system hose, some PVC tubing and a sprinkler head Sliva unknowingly created his first prototype. He appeared at the next game with his invention and began misting his players as they came off the field to help cool them down. Soon girls from the other team were circling the field asking for relief. By the end of the game, parents wanted to know where they could purchase that device. Sliva knew he was on to something big and began work
on the design now available.
“A few years ago, I was very pleased to offer my girls immediate relief with what turned out to be the very first prototype of Liquid Shade,” said Sliva. He added, “With Spring/Summer sports seasons in full swing or about to get underway and Fall sports training camps around the corner, we’re confident that Liquid Shade provides major league quality relief to any team working out in hot weather.”
Sliva went on to reference reports of a recent wrongful death lawsuit filed against a coach and a school working with underage athletes. He said,
“Unfortunately in our litigious society, coaches today need to be aware of the risk they incur personally when working with players under extreme conditions. Liquid Shade is one more tool in their arsenal of good health solutions to help reduce risk of injury due to overheating.
Coaches need to be aware of surrounding
conditions and their individual athletes’ reaction to them,” said Sliva. For example, The Heat Index, a calculation of relative heat and humidity shows that when the environmental temperature is 85 degrees Fahrenheit, if relative humidity is at 60% the apparent temperature is 90 degrees, the cross point at which heat stress risks start to arise including cramps or exhaustion. At 95 degrees and 60% humidity, the apparent temperature is 114 degrees and heat stroke is now possible. Liquid Shade has assembled a cross section of reference tools for coaches, athletes and their parents on the Company’s website to help bring attention to and educate the community about heat related injuries.
See Liquid Shade at www.liquidshade.com or call (877)497-4463.
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