Exel Xtel System™
Telescope System

red dot: best of the best
red dot award: product design 2008

Mastering height
Hollywood film producers seem to love them, those mysterious characters who while cleaning the glass façades on the outside of a building happen to overlook important incidents in other people’s lives. However, the everyday life of hi-rise cleaners and other people whose job it is to clean large glass areas such as those of trains or aircraft, is neither easy nor mysterious. Each height has its own difficulty and it requires substantial expertise to master the job of cleaning these different surfaces. Against this background, the Exel Xtel System™ presents an innovative solution. As a composite telescope system, it allows the cleaning staff to adjust the poles, onto which the cleaning device is mounted, by easily adapting them to different required heights. The complete system consists of ten pole sections, thus covering various duty applications including a mast construction of up to 20 metres. The aim in developing this new telescopic system was to facilitate an easier handling of such poles by reducing not only their weight but also by increasing the number of individual extendable sections for better transportation. At the centre of this functionally and ergonomically well thought-out design stands an easy-to-handle clamping lock that allows for extending and locking the telescope pole sections at different lengths. The system is based on an innovative polymer-metal construction, featuring new material characteristics that also improve the locking force. The clamps can be easily unlocked at any time during the work process by a simple one-handed operation, whereas the clamp guard has been designed to prevent accidental release. With its ergonomic user guidance, this well thought-out telescope system also brings a new aesthetic to mastering a job.