Liquid dispensing brush

• US 7,309,182 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2004
• Issued: 12/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hartz Mountain Corporation (Unicharm Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hartz Mountain Corporation (Unicharm Corporation)
• Inventors: McKay, William D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh; Khoa D.
• Application Number:
  US10/930,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20050063764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,204 Days
• Field of Search: 401136-139, 401/179, 401/188.R, 401/129, 132/313
• US Class Current: 401/138
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 13/002 Curry-combs; Brushes shearing sheep B26B19/24
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 19/0066 Coloring or bleaching
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 19/026 having brush or comb applicators A45D24/22 take precedence; brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances A46B11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/057 Spray nozzles; Generating atomised liquid
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/1018 comprising a pad, i.e. a cushion-like mass of soft material, with or without gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 11/0017 with pre-pressurised reservoirs, e.g. aerosols
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 11/0058 with a metered dosage
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 17/06 Devices for cleaning brushes after use
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/104 Hair brush
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/1093 Brush for use on animal A46B2200/1086 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/10 Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle

Abstract

A cleaning apparatus includes a substrate with outward projecting bristles. The substrate may be mounted on a support which may carry a handle or on a media dispensing container. The handle is hollow to carry a dispensable media from a dispenser mounted on the handle or has an open end to receive an aerosol or media dispensing container.

Claims

1. A brush assembly comprising:

a body having a handle portion and a head portion attached coaxially to said handle portion, said head portion having a tubular body with an outer surface circumferentially surrounding said tubular body;

a replaceable cleaning element including a mat having a flexible base disposed circumferentially around said outer surface, said flexible base having a first surface that contacts said outer surface of said head portion and an opposite second surface, a plurality of bristles attached to and extending upwardly from said opposite second surface of said flexible base and terminating in two opposed edges, and

a securing element for releasably attaching said replaceable cleaning element to said head portion such that said replaceable cleaning element is circumferentially wrapped around said outer surface of said head portion;

wherein said securing element includes straps attached to and extending from one of said edges and engaging and overlapping said other edge, wherein said securing element further includes at least one projection on one of said straps and said flexible base and an aperture formed in the other of said straps and said flexible base, said aperture being sized to accept and engage said projection to secure said replaceable cleaning element on said head portion.

2. The brush assembly of claim 1 wherein said head portion has an elliptical cross section.

3. The cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein said bristles are disposed perpendicularly to said base.

4. The cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein said base is generally flat and rectangular before it is mounted on said head portion.