Hand-cleaning device

• US 4,564,968 A
• Filed: 12/17/1984
• Issued: 01/21/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elizabeth Buckley
• Original Assignee: Elizabeth Buckley
• Inventors: Buckley, Elizabeth
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US06/682,550
• Time in Patent Office: 400 Days
• Field of Search: 15/21 R, 15/21 C, 15/21 D, 15/21 E, 15/97 R, 15/3.1, 15/3.12, 15/104.92, 15/70
• US Class Current: 15/21.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 7/04 Mechanical washing or cleaning devices, hand or mechanically, i.e. power operated

Abstract

A device to clean the hands, fingers and forearms having an outer drum, a perforated stationary drum contained concentrically within the outer drum, and a perforated movable drum having brush members arrayed around its inside rotatably mounted within the perforated stationary drum adapted to receive water containing a cleansing agent and to clean and rinse a hand inserted into the rotating perforated drum with the hand scrubbed by the brush members rotating around the hand.

Claims

1. A hand-washing device, comprising:

an outer drum;

a stationary drum having a plurality of perforations defined therearound positioned concentrically within said outer drum;

a movable drum having a plurality of perforations defined therearound positioned concentrically within said perforated stationary drum;

means to rotate said movable drum;

water entry means adapted to enter water into said outer drum,

and, once entered in said outer drum, to pass through the perforations in said stationary drum and then through the perforations in said movable drum;

brush members concentrically positioned around the inside of said movable drum adapted to receive water through the perforations in said movable drum to wash a hand inserted into said movable drum while it is rotating; and

drain means to remove said water which has passed through said device.

2. The device of claim 1 further including means to enter a cleansing agent into said water supply at various selected times.

3. The device of claim 2 further including closure means on the front of said unit to prevent water from coming out of said unit, said closure means including flexible sector-shaped front flap members that move aside to allow for insertion of a user'"'"'s hand into said unit.