Local Inventor Hopes to 'Get on the Shelf' at Walmart

Wiper Sleeve the creation of a Moon resident who has entered the product in a competition that he hopes will lead to shelf space at the giant retailer.

Jack Rees said the idea was so simple he should have thought of it sooner.  One winter day Rees watched his wife slide plastic grocery bags over her car's windshield wipers to prevent ice from building up on them.  "And so I started to do the same thing, but plastic bags didn't fit on my [vehicle's] wipers," he said.  So instead, Rees, a 59-year-old retired postal worker from Moon, bought some fabric from a local store to craft his own wiper cover — and Wiper Sleeve was born.  "Think of it as a sleeve that you would slide up over your arm, but instead, you put it on your wiper," Rees said. "It's a very simple product." The Wiper Sleeve is now one of more than 4,000 products in the running in Walmart's Get on the Shelf competition. …

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