Fingertip washer

• US 5,379,474 A
• Filed: 10/18/1993
• Issued: 01/10/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GS Food Corporation
• Original Assignee: GS Food Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): ROBERTS JR, EDWARD
• Application Number:
  US08/136,919
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 15/21.1, 15/97.1, 132/73.6
• US Class Current: 15/21.1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/17 Nail cleaners, e.g. scrapers
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/02 power-driven carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/1013 Brushes for cleaning fingers or finger nails
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/02 Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups

Abstract

A fingertip washer has a disk-shaped bottom plate and a vertical peripheral wall provided around the bottom plate and planted in the inner surface thereof with numerous cleaning hairs as an annular brush. High-speed rotary brushes each driven by a planetary gears are mounted on the bottom plate. They are adapted to revolve about the center of the bottom plate together with the bottom plate and at the same time rotate about their own axes. Further, a flat rotary brush is fixedly mounted on the bottom plate.

Claims

1. A fingertip washer comprising a disk-shaped bottom plate having a peripheral wall provided along the outer circumference of said bottom plate and planted with a multiplicity of hairs in the inner periphery thereof, a rotary shaft fixed to the center of said disk-shaped bottom plate, a driving means for rotating said rotary shaft in either direction, small disks loosely mounted in said bottom plate near its outer circumference so as to be moved by said bottom plate in a circumferential direction of said bottom plate when said bottom plate is rotated about its rotation axis by said driving means, and means for rotating said small disks about their own axes when said small disks are moved by said bottom plate, said small disks being planted in the top surfaces thereof with a multiplicity of hairs, said bottom plate being planted in its top surface with a multiplicity of hairs.