I really commend you on all the work and dedication you put into your concept! I teach in an engineering innovation program and it's a big deal to get to the prototyping stage. Congrats!

Don't let the above poster's negativity bug you. You might be onto a whole new market niche. After all, innovation is what got us transitional styles, modern styles, farmhouse styles, etc.

Food for thought: the location of the faucet handle isn't great - I'm not sure people want to reach through water spray to adjust temp or turn it of, or have to swing the faucet out of the way to do so.

I strongly suspect there is a market for this, so ignore Verbo (the first poster), his hobbies are making babies cry and monitoring his yard for trespassing kids to yell at.

I agree that a side mount lever would be preferable, but not sure what that means for installation.

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I'm not crazy about the lever in the front and that seems to be inherent in this design, however, that is minor compared to your overall approach.

This should be kept completely secret until it goes to market because if it did experience a resurgence, I promise you the Delta's and Kohler's of the world will attempt to bury you. Even then you aren't in the clear. You not only need money for development, you need 10x as much money to defend your patent.

I did the countertops for the guy who invented those popular quirky bird clocks that chriped a different bird every hour over twenty years ago. He invested money in bird research at a top university and was shocked to find Chinese clones of his clocks at a local flea market.

He called his lawyer who wisely told him to forget suing, as the Chinese have already calculated the cost of his lawsuit into their theft and to move on to the next idea. He got a licensing deal with Harley Davidson and made clocks that growl a different Harley every hour and made more money.

Dino Rachiele, a world-renowned sink manufacturer, participant here, and a friend of mine, has butted heads with a major production sink manufacturer over design issues.

Same thing here. All the work you've done so far is the relative easy part, unless you want to go Elon Musk and just give it away. Good luck.

The technology sounds really impressive, and like you've solved a problem! If it's able to be patented, hope you run out and get it! But I would like to see that tech married with a more traditional style because I think for most people this would be an aesthetic choice, and the aesthetic of a wall-mount faucet is usually traditional.

Thirty years or so ago, a guy invented an electronically-activated brake that stopped a table saw blade the instant human flesh completed the circuit, preventing hundreds of thousands of injuries. He couldn't get the major saw manufactures to buy his technology because it would have meant that they were admitting their technology was flawed. The lawyers and courts struck again.

He ended up manufacturing his own saws, the Sawstop. I've got one, it's great, but unfortunately 43 years too late for my left index, middle, and ring finger tips:

Even if you perfect this, even if it's a hit in the marketplace, you may still have a difficult time getting the big boys to buy you out. Good luck.

Just adding to the chorus: your concept is great, the handle location is problematic. Wishing you lots of luck, as this seems like a great idea.

Thank you all for the comments, I appreciate the time you took to write them

I'll try to respond to a few points thrown out:

1) The lever placement is not fixed for eternity. To simplify construction of the prototype we placed it in front, but it could also be mounted on the side. However, since the faucet body is set back slightly due to being mounted on the wall, moving the handle location to the front allows for easy reach. I won't go into it now, but forward facing handles have several advantages over side ones, and I believe more faucets will move in that direction. Big names such as Vola and Waterstone utilize forward facing handles, try it for yourself, you may be pleasantly surprised!

2) Please don't get hung up on how the design looks, I was limited by time and money while producing this, as well as the capabilities of the fabrication shop. With enough resources, the exterior of the faucet could be matched to any style. This was definitely just proving the concept. And @course411 is right, even with a basic design it took a long time just getting to this point.

3) @HU-291315178 (Verbo) is right about wall mounts having a "traditional" atmosphere about them, but I don't think we have to limit ourselves to that rigid view. It is easy to come to that idea because faucet manufacturers tend to clothe wall mounts in "traditional" exteriors, but if the same advancements were put to wall mounts that are applied to deck mounts, nobody would raise an eyebrow.

I am not against deck mount faucets, but I have seen enough cases where the area around them is hard to clean, and ends up growing yucky stuff. I have browsed enough websites and forums to learn that there is a significant number of people who want the benefits a wall mount affords, but wish they didn't have to forgo advancements from the last 70 years - okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration :)

Thank you again for your comments

I know you aren't looking for style input at this point, but what would really excite me would be a pull-out style wall mount, where the faucet extends out and upward from the wall at a slight angle. Like the one below, but wall mounted. Goosenecks don't have a real point when the entire faucet is well above the countertop. They just hint at that traditional look, even when the styling is clean and modern.

For a handle, I would love to see it mounted on the wall too, off the the side, but with a forward-facing handle like the one on your faucet.