In fighting wildfires, and in many other applications, there is a need to lift water a few feet, say from a creek or river, to fill a header tank or mobile water tender. Particularly in firefighting, turnaround time is what measures success at the end of the day.

The now-ubiquitous design of the classic lemon and lime squeezer was an original Perideo Design.

ca. 1998
At that time Perideo was known as Strategic Tooling and Manufacturing, of San Luis Obispo, California.

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The DeRoyal DeROM, also formerly known as the SP-Hinge.

The job entailed a complete redesign of an existing product, transitioning it from a CNC aluminum assembly into a plastic injection molded assembly.