Put-In Cups for Customized Ads, Banners, Logos, Team Names & Mascots on Chain-link Fence
Posted on July 20, 2008
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Randall Hunt was a Texas electrician four years ago when he invented Put-In-Cups. The small, plastic squares fit snug in the spaces of a chain-link fence and work the same way as a banner.The idea came to Hunt after passing by a Fort Worth-area school and seeing foam cups in a fence spelling out “God Bless America.” That was cool, Hunt thought, but the next day most of the cups had been blown out of the fence.
This new, exciting product will do away with using plastic cups to decorate your chain link fence. Now, you can purchase these small, plastic devices from Put-In-Cups and get your message across again and again. Hunt’s ashtray-shaped cups, which come in seventeen different colors, have been “sun-tested in Arizona, freeze-tested in Maine and hurricane-tested in Florida.” Moreover, each cup proudly displays “Made In Texas.”
“It’s really taking off,” Hunt said from his booth at the Arlington Convention Center during the second day of the Texas Girls Coaches Association summer clinic. “Business triples every year.”
Hunt’s cups, which cost about $360 for a big box of 2,000, are on display around the Fort Worth area, including Fort Worth Cats’ LaGrave Field and the Aledo High School.
Put-In-Cups can be used as a cheaper alternative to banners. Generally banners cost about $10 per square feet. At that price, a 3′ x 15′ banner would cost $450. The same amount of coverage in Put-In-Cups would cost about $100. That’s less than a quarter of the price of a banner!
Put-In-Cups is a great way to decorate your school fence or the fence around your playing field with team names and logos, mascots, mottoes or just sayings.
Put-In Cups can be used at home for increasing privacy and security of your house.
Hunt, 44, said his patent is coming soon after more than 2.5 million cups have been sold in less than four years. He has sold cups to European US military bases as far away as Italy and Germany.
Hunt’s largest one-time order for Put In Cups was for 150,000 (about $27,000) to a major Canadian fence manufacturer.
[via Put-in-Cups.com & star-telegram.com]
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