(Overview)

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Introduction:

The patent holders have created an effective cleaning system that permanently fits commercial

and residential solar panels, windows and skylights. This completely water powered system travels

elliptically up and down the exterior of a window, applying brush, squeegee and existing water pressure.

The brush and water loosen any dirt or grime on the way up, followed by direct squeegee pressure being

applied to the glass as the brush bar reaches the peak of the track, resulting in an automatically rinsed,

scrubbed and dry surface all in the same cycle. The KlearvieW System utilizes existing water pressure

(instead of electricity) as its sole power source for both safety and cleaning proficiency. The same water

that drives the brush bar up the track is wetting the solar panel, window and skylight in cooperation with the brushes scrub, followed by downward squeegee pressure for a clean and dry window every time.

High rise operators and high end residential home owners are spending billions annually on building and home solar panel, window and skylight maintenance, only for the glass to accumulate more dirt within the following day. Put simply, the KlearvieW System will put these expenditures directly back in the customer’s pocket as well as eliminating the majority of the fatalities and injuries associated with manually cleaning view glass.

The patent holders are seeking investors, or an acquirer to fund initial manufacturing, sales and marketing efforts.

The Company:

The present KlearvieW Systems is a start-up company with five key individuals working full and part time. KlearvieW Systems.  Klearview Systems intellectual property is exclusively owned by Tom Kirven and C.A. White, JR. KlearvieW's management team is comprised of: Greg Rose, Marketing Executive; Sam Gold, Sales Executive; Bill Beard, Business Consultant.  KlearvieW Systems has a single office located in Vancouver, WA.  

Our key competitive advantage is that the KlearvieW System’s cleaning mechanism does not require electricity to operate, which significantly saves energy and greatly simplifies installation since electrical wiring to the mechanism is not needed. While an electrically actuated control valve is desirably used to control the flow of pressurized water to the motor, such a valve can be installed at any convenient location inside of the building. Another advantage is that water discharged from the motor is rinsing the window surface, which further simplifies installation and construction of the device since a separate mechanism for wetting the window is not required. Another advantage of the apparatus is that it does not utilize bulky or unsightly devices mounted to the sides of the window, as in conventional devices. The tracks can be mounted directly to the casing of the window and do not have any moving parts, which further simplifies installation.

ADDITIONAL POINTS OF DISCUSSION TO HIGHLIGHT THE ADVANTAGES OF THE KLEARVIEW SYSTEM

‘GREEN FEATURES’

Green building definition

• The practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — While reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better sitting, design, construction, operation and maintenance.

• Water - KlearvieW’s self-sustaining approach to cleaning windows is unlike anything the world has ever seen.  We capture rain water that would otherwise be unused; flowing directly into our oceans, rivers and streams. This capture rain water is stored in an underground storage tank, ultimately to be used to clean the exterior windows on your home or business.
• Energy - We combine the captured rain water resource with solar power.  By placing a small, inexpensive photovoltaic panel on your roof we are able to continually charge the 12-volt battery that powers the submersible pump inside of the rain water capture storage tank.  The combination of ‘Captured Rain Water and Solar Power’ makes the KlearvieW System a completely “Green, Self sustaining System”.
• Materials - KlearvieW takes it a step further by utilizing 75% recycled plastics during initial construction of this window cleaning system.  Additionally, all the scrap pieces that are cut in the field from extrusions of standard lengths are gathered up and recycled directly back into the plastic extrusion process, furthering our effort to help lessen the impacts on the environment.
• Maintenance – The KlearvieW System’s impact on overall maintenance costs are immense.  The labor dollars saved with implementation of the KlearvieW System will be placed directly back into the pockets of the building owners, allowing this money to be invested somewhere else or realized as a pure value engineering cost savings to the building owner.

• Water Usage – We Think Green!
• The next generation KlearvieW System will use 1/8th of a gallon of water to clean a single 4’x5’ window.  Or one gallon of water to wash (8) 4’x5’ windows once.
• In today’s world it is extremely important to take our environment into consideration.  That is why the KlearvieW System inventors have developed a completely self-sustaining “Green” window cleaning system.
• This system is designed to utilize captured rain water as its power source.  Even in a very arid climate of 12” of water per year KlearvieW’s rain water capture system will collect ample water from the roof of a single family home to clean (10) 4’x5’ windows, once daily, 365 days per year.  This is accomplished is by installing an underground storage tank that is connected to your roof gutter system.  Rain water that flows through your gutter is conveyed to the underground tank (approximate size 250 gallons).  Inside of the tank is a line pump that can deliver up to 80psi and is powered via a 12-volt battery pack. This battery pack is charged utilizing a photovoltaic – Solar panel system to keep the battery energized at all times.  You can now clean your windows without any worries of wasting potable water or power plant generated power, a completely GREEN self-sustaining system. (See preface page xii for illustration)

• Solar Panel – From the beginning KlearvieW Systems has always been a green company.  KlearvieW Systems has targeted solar panels as being a key component of the green future.  KlearvieW is the perfect fit for the solar panel industry.
• Solar panel utilization / implementation are not without challenges.  As a solar panel collects dust, leaves and bird droppings they become dramatically less efficient. 
• The KlearvieW system is adaptable to numerous different applications, with quick and easy change of brushes and squeegee blades to perfectly fit the end-users needs.
• Utilizing the Green self sustaining system shown on page xii. The KlearvieW Systems uses the captured rain water that sheets off of the solar panel surface into a gutter system conveying the captured rain water into a storage tank.  Inside of the storage tank is a simple line pump powered directly from the solar panels themselves.

• KlearvieW takes this one step further by recycling; utilizing the initial captured rain water as the power source to drive the mechanism.  Once expelled from the unit we capture the water and recycle so it can be used again to drive the mechanism.  It is safe to say, you can’t get any greener than that!
• Solar panels will sustain maximum efficiency with the KlearvieW System in place.
• Return on investment will take place within the first year the KlearvieW System is installed and placed into operation on a solar panel array.

In Summary: The purpose of this system is four fold

• To make cleaning of exterior windows, skylights and solar panels convenient for all.
• To reduce the labor costs associated with exterior window, skylight and solar panel cleaning.
• To dramatically reduce the inherent risk of cleaning exterior windows, skylights and solar panels by hand.
• To greatly lessen the impacts manual window skylight and solar panel cleaning has on our environment through the use of self-sustaining “Green” Technologies

Products and Services:

KlearvieW Systems will be offering a steadily increasing product line for the following applications:

• Solar Panel - Single solar panels to entire arrays of utility style solar panel farms
• Fixed Picture Retro-Fit: High end residential beach homes, Low-rise office buildings.
• New Fixed Picture: High end residential/commercial low rise, mid rise, high rise.
• New Flat Façade: Building integration including flat façade building construction.
• Niche Markets: Glass carwash, public aquarium, air traffic control tower cabs.

The Market:

The KlearvieW System provides a permanent, unique solution for:

• Countless building owners spending multi-millions of dollars (individually) annually on solar panel, window and skylight maintenance (i.e. flat façade structures, structures with all floors containing picture windows worldwide).

• High end home owners spending thousands of dollars (individually) every year on professional window and skylight cleaning services and/or home owners frustrated with the reoccurring chore/risk of cleaning these windows themselves (i.e. beach front homes, condo’s, resorts and hotels of which daily cleaning of the glass is desired if not required, due to the constant salt spray inundation that inhibits these luxurious views daily).  

• Specialty/Niche markets such as glass carwash manufacturers with daily water/soap spotting issues. Public aquarium owners hiring underwater divers to clean the view glass by hand (i.e. Sea World tanks, or other aquatic wildlife attractions with these issues).

• Architecture firms, window and skylight manufacturers seeking to capitalize on the demand for integrated, sustainable, green building products or cutting edge window cleaning outfits that would profit from retrofitting units as a service.

Ideal International Markets:

The city of Dubai is one of the wealthiest and most modern locations anywhere; boasting the highest skyline in the Middle East, including the two tallest hotels in the world (primarily made of glass).  Also, a project called “The World Islands” which is an archipelago of artificial islands shaped like the continents of the Earth is currently being constructed off the coast of Dubai. The world will consist of 250 to 300 smaller private artificial islands divided into four categories- private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands that will all experience the same salt spray issues for their windows. This and other current/future projects prove Dubai to be an ideal market venue for the KlearvieW System.

There’s currently an Austrian based company called iku-windows (Google iku windows) that have an electrically powered, integral window cleaning system that is similar to the KlearvieW System, but has no scrubber and is powered by electricity, not water. This product is currently on the market and selling in Austria, Germany, and the Middle East (currently on buildings). Industry trends show that automatic window washing is most popular in these regions. We believe that introducing an Integrated, water powered, building cleaning ecosystem in these territories would create a much greater interest with architects and building owners since electrically powered window washing apparatuses consume much more energy and greatly complicate installation.

Mission:

To greatly eliminate the inherent dangers and reoccurring costs associated with manually washing commercial and residential solar panels, windows and skylights while providing the owner/customer the ability to clean these surfaces at their convenience.

Keys to Success:

We forecast the KlearvieW System’s success depending on the following approaches to manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of the system to the previously mentioned market segments including the eventual integration of the automatic building cleaning ecosystem into new flat façade construction.  

Manufacturing:

The KlearvieW System has gone through the earliest stage of development via mechanical engineering of each part and piece of the fixed picture system in the form of CAD. Each component has been professionally quoted by its respective manufacturer/distributor. The KlearvieW system will be tooled and assembled using highly durable plastics (i.e. PVC) ensuring resistance to diverse climatic conditions and the elements. This will allow maintenance to be very infrequent.

Distributing:

Companies in the glass carwash enclosure industry have requested distributorships for wholesale selling purposes. These companies have offered to provide letters of intent to become distributors once the manufacturing agreement is in effect. We will endeavor to rekindle these and future distributorship opportunities. Optimally, the Klearview System will be strategically introduced into the US market place through several key distributorships such as Lowes, Home-Depot, Sears and Wal-Mart.  Additionally, most of the large home improvement companies previously listed have the ability to install the KlearvieW System as well as selling to the general public (DIY customers).  Based upon on-going conversations with several window manufacturers, we anticipate one of the larger, vinyl residential window manufacturers formulating a partnership for integration of the Klearview System into the frame of a fixed picture, vinyl window.

Marketing:

KlearvieW will immediately begin marketing the system to all previously mentioned market segments whether the conditions are collaborative with a company or independent. We’ve conceived personally introducing ourselves and the system to home and resort owners on the Oregon coast (locally). Based on individual conversations with beach front resort operators and residents, we are more than confident that we can personally sell and install the KlearvieW System to the previously mentioned prospects that are spending unnecessary time and money every day to maintain these luxurious view that are inhibited constantly by salt spray inundation. This coupled with testimonials from satisfied customers will indisputably prove the market for the fixed picture retrofit system and its worldwide potential in addition to validating our commercial integration conceptions.

1.3.3.1. Integrated Building Cleaning Ecosystem:

We forecast the integration of the KlearvieW system in a flat façade capturing the interest of architecture firms and curtain wall window manufacturers after the fixed picture retrofit and new fixed picture integration applications are working on homes and proven cost effective and customer recommended. Whether our efforts are collaborative with a company or independent, we will diligently market the system to the firms that are consistently designing new projects that when complete, will require frequent manual glass maintenance, or buildings that when complete, should be cleaned regularly and are not due to the reoccurring costs and liabilities that the building operators would incur from daily or weekly washing. Industry trends prove that green and sustainable architecture is a crucial competitive advantage that all chief organizations in the industry continuously pursue. The KlearvieW System will demonstrate sustainability by using existing water to concurrently serve three functions: Water powers the system, wets the glass, and irrigates the surrounding landscape. These conceptions are described on page 12.

1.3.3.2. Service/Installation:    

During final development, (whether independently or collaboratively) KlearvieW will publish a comprehensive, user friendly installation guide and owner’s manual. This will be used as a training tool for technicians and sales representatives as well as the DIY customer. Our working prototype has run over 3000 cycles, maintenance free. If that same system we’re on a customer’s window and used once per week, the equivalent would be fifty seven years of maintenance free service. Based on this, Klearview will publish a one year guaranteed warranty assuring repair and/or part replacement for the consumer.  An extended 5 year warranty may be purchased as an option to the customer (pricing for this option to be confirmed at a later date).

Company Summary:

The present Klearview Systems is a start-up company with three key individuals. We are a high powered team of creative individuals with extensive backgrounds in mechanics as well as business. The company creates an exclusive, patent-protected automatic window washing product that is unlike anything else in the world.

Ownership:

KlearvieW Systems intellectual property is exclusively owned by Tom Kirven and C.A. White, JR.