Apparatus or method for applying a solvent

• US 7,648,296 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2009
• Issued: 01/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hammond Wong
• Original Assignee: Hammond Wong
• Inventors: Wong, Hammond
• Primary Examiner(s): Walczak; David J
• Application Number:
  US12/466,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20090223593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 249 Days
• Field of Search: 401132-135, 401183-186, 401/270, 401/272, 401/269, 401/280, 401/202, 401/213, 401/262
• US Class Current: 401/134
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 11/0041 Flexible or deformable reservoirs, e.g. resilient bulbs, compressible tubes
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/20 Brushes for applying products to surfaces in general A46B2200/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B43M 11/06 Hand-held devices

Abstract

An apparatus including a cover, a foam housing, a pushing cap, a container, and a seal. The container may be adaptable for retaining a solvent, and the combination of the seal and the container may retain the solvent in a completely enclosed chamber. The seal may prevent the solvent from coming out of the container unless the seal is broken. The cover may be oriented with respect to the pushing cap so that when the cover is pressed in a first direction, the pushing cap moves in the first direction, and snaps into a first position on the container while breaking the seal, and allows the solvent to come out of the container and out of the foam housing.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

placing a solvent into a container through an opening;

sealing the opening with a seal, such that the solvent is contained within a completely enclosed chamber;

placing a pushing cap on the container;

placing a housing on the pushing cap;

attaching a tooth brush to the housing;

placing a cover over the housing;

wherein the cover is configured so that it can be oriented with respect to the pushing cap so that when the cover is pressed in a first direction, the pushing cap moves in the first direction and snaps into a first position on the container while breaking the seal, allowing the solvent to come out of the container and out of the housing;

wherein the pushing cap is comprised of a top section and a bottom section, wherein the top section and the bottom section come together at a shoulder;

wherein the cover is configured so that it can be placed over the pushing cap so that the cover substantially surrounds the top section, the cover rests on the shoulder, and the cover when pressed in the first direction, presses on the shoulder and thereby moves the pushing cap in the first direction.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein

the cover is configured so that it can be separated from the pushing cap by pulling the cover in a second direction which is opposite the first direction.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein

the pushing cap has a pointed section which breaks the seal when the pushing cap is moved in the first direction.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein

the pointed section is located substantially in the center of the pushing cap.

5. The method of claim 3

the pointed section is surrounded by one or more openings through which the solvent can pass to go from the container to the housing.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein

the pushing cap includes a first means for holding the pushing cap in a first position with respect to the container, prior to the seal being broken;

the container includes a second means for holding the pushing cap in the first position with respect to the container, prior to the seal being broken;

wherein the first means and the second means fit together;

wherein the pushing cap includes a third means for holding the pushing cap in a second position with respect to the container, which is different from the first position, after the seal is broken;

the container includes a fourth means for holding the pushing cap in the second position with respect to the container, after the seal is broken; and

wherein the third and the fourth means fit together.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein

the first means is a ridge;

the second means is an indentation;

the third means is a ridge;

and the fourth means is an indentation.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein

the first means is a indentation;

the second means is a ridge;

the third means is a indentation;

and the fourth means is a ridge.