Lint removing surface cleaner for garments

• US 3,299,461 A
• Filed: 12/13/1965
• Issued: 01/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerry H. Marks
• Original Assignee: Jerry H. Marks
• Inventors: Marks, Jerry H.
• Application Number:
  US04/513,451
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• US Class Current: 15/104.002
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 25/005 using adhesive or tacky surfaces to remove dirt, e.g. lint removers

Claims

1. A LINT, DANDRUFF AND SMALL PARTICLE PICK-UP AND REMOVING DEVICE OF THE CLASS DESCRIBED COMPRISING:

AN ELONGATED REAR WALL, A DUPLICATE ELONGATED COMPANION FRONT WALL OPPOSED TO AND PARALLEL WIT H SAID REAR WALL, SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE INTERIOR END PORTIONS ONLY OF SAID WALLS BEING SUPERIMPOSED UPON EACH OTHER AND ADHESIVELY BONDED TOGETHER TO POSITIVELY UNITE SAID END PORTIONS IN A MANNER TO INTERCONNECT SAID WALLS AND ALSO TO DEFINE AND PROVIDE DOUBLE-THICKNESS FINGER-GRIPS AT THE RESPECTIVE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID WALLS, THE BODY PORTIONS OF SAID WALLS BETWEEN SAID BONDED END PORTIONS BEING FREE OF CONNECTION AND DEFINING AND PROVIDING AN EXPANSIBLE AND CONTRACTIBLE OPEN-ENDED SLEEVE WHICH WHEN IN USE IS ADAPTED TO ENCOMPASS THE FINGERS OF THE USER'"'"''"'"'S HAND, THE ENTIRE INTERIOR SURFACES OF SAID BODY PORTIONS BEING CALENDERED AND NON-TACKY, THE ENTIRE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF A LEAST ONE OF SAID WALLS BEING COATED WITH ADHESIVE MEDIA AND PROVIDING A TACKY LINT AND SMALL PARTICLE PICK-UP SURFACE WHEN PATTED OR RUBBED UPON THE DESIRED SPOT OF SAID GARMENT, A FIRST PLY OF FLEXIBLE PEELABLE SHEET MATERIAL SUPERIMPOSED UPON ADHERING TO AND WHOLLY COVERING SAID TACKY SURFACE, SAID PLY BEING OF A LENGTH GREATER THAN THE SURFACE COVERED THEREBY AND A MINIMAL END PORTION PROJECTING BEYOND THE CORRESPONDING TERMINAL END PORTION OF SAID ONE WALL AND CONSTITUTING AND PROVIDING A FINGER GRIPPING PLY-REMOVING FLAP, SAID FLAP BEING PROVIDED ON ONE LENGTHWISE SIDE WITH A SUPERIMPOSED PERMANENTLY ATTACHED STABILIZING STRIP MEMBER FREE OF CONNECTION WITH BUT CONTIGUOUS TO AND PARALLELING THE COACTING BONDED END PORTIONS OF SAID WALLS AND WHICH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SAID FLAP, PROVIDES A READILY ACCESSIBLE PULL-TAB WHICH ASSISTS AND AIDS THE USER IN GRASPING AND STRIPPING OFF SAID PEELABLE SHEET MATERIAL AND UNCOVERING AND EXPOSING THE UNDERLYING TACKY SURFACE OF SAID ONE WALL FOR USE, THE OTHER ONE OF SAID WALLS HAVING ITS EXTERIOR SURFACE LIKEWISE COATED WITH ADHESIVE MEDIA PROVIDING A SECOND SELECTIVELY USABLE TACKY LINT PICK-UP SURFACE, AND A SECOND PLY OF FLEXIBLE PEELABLE SHEET MATERIAL SUPERIMPOSED UPON AND WHOLLY COVERING SAID LAST NAMED TACKY SURFACE, SAID SECOND PLY LIKEWISE BEING OF A LENGTH GREATER THAN THE SURFACE WHICH IT COVERS AND ALSO HAVING A TERMINAL END PORTION PROJECTING BEYOND A COINCIDING TERMINAL END PORTION OF SAID OTHER WALL AND PROVIDING A SECOND FLAP AND ALSO HAVING A CONFORMABLE STABILIZING STRIP MEMBER SUPERIMPOSED ON AND ATTACHED TO ONE SIDE BUT FREE OF CONNECTION WITH THE COACTING ENDS OF SAID WALLS AND PROVIDING A SECOND ACCESSIBLE PULL-TAB, SAID FIRST NAMED TAB BEING LOCATED AT ONE END OF THE SLEEVE AND SAID SECOND NAMED TAB BEING LOCATED AT THE OTHER END OF THE SLEEVE, AND WHEREIN PORTIONS OF SAID WALLS AND SAID PEELABLE SHEET MATERIAL ADJACENT BUT INWARDLY OF THE RESPECTIVE FINGERGRIPS ARE FOLDABLE AND INWARDLY COLLAPSIBLE WHEN SAID FINGER-GRIPS ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY CAUGHT HOLD OF AND ARE FORCIBLY PRESSED IN A DIRECTION TOWARD EACH OTHER IN A MANNER TO SPREAD SAID WALLS APART.