Entrepreneur Ken Post speaks April 8 about his invention of the GlassMaster windshield cleaning tool while living in Lincoln Park, explaining how he would sell it from a booth at auto shows across the country.
By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
LINCOLN PARK – Inventor and entrepreneur Ken Post spoke April 8 at the Lincoln Park Historical Museum explaining his invention, production and evolution of the GlassMaster, a unique windshield cleaning tool.
The tool was created by Post in the 1990s from an idea he tinkered with when he was between jobs. He and his friend Rob Laskos formed K & R Industries, LLC, in 1998, and started marketing the tool in earnest.
By the early 2000s, they were selling it at car shows throughout the country, including the 2004 Detroit Autorama.
Today, the tool has evolved into the Invisible Glass Reach and Clean Tool, which is sold across the country at major auto supply and retail stores.
Along the way, he learned how to market his product, fight off poachers who tried to illegally mimic his patented product and even learned how to package his product so that it could be optimally placed on store shelves where it would be easily spotted by potential customers.
Post’s early version of the GlassMaster is now on display at the Lincoln Park Historical Museum, and car buffs may even remember buying the early version at a car show, possibly with Post delivering the spiel.
Current versions of the cleaning tool come with interchangeable cloth heads, and can be used to clean hard-to-reach surfaces in homes and offices.
An original version of Ken Post’s GlassMaster windshield cleaning tool is now on display at the Lincoln Park Historical Museum.