Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Attachments – Moving surface scraper – wiper – or brush
Patent
1993-09-30
1994-10-04
Roberts, Edward L.
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Attachments
Moving surface scraper, wiper, or brush
15160, 152204, 114221A, B63B 5900
Patent
active
053513592
ABSTRACT:
A cleaning device 20 for cleaning a boat's deployed anchor chain 14, or for cleaning ropes, lines or similar items, and having: i) a generally O-shaped handle 21 having a central through opening 22 for permitting the user to grasp the handle 21, and at least two smaller through openings 24, 25 adjacent its opposite ends for permitting removable connection to a conventional boat hook 52 or to a retrieval line 26 and weight 29; ii) a pair of spaced, laterally projecting, generally cylindrical coaxial anchor chain guides 35, 36 rigidly secured to respective ones of the opposite ends of the handle 21, each having a longitudinally extending radial opening 39, 42 extending in different angular directions from the axis extending therethrough; and iii), a flexible, brush-like scrubbing medium 49, 50 bonded to the inner cylindrical surfaces of the anchor chain guides 35, 36 and having a plurality of cleaning bristles 50 extending radially inward towards, but terminating short of, the axis extending through the coaxial chain guides 35, 36. In the illustrative device 20, the scrubbing medium 49, 50 comprises a flexible grass-like polyethylene material consisting of a flexible backing 49 and a plurality of upright bristles 50 embedded therein. Reciprocation of the device while mounted on a deployed anchor chain 14 extending coaxially through the chain guides 35, 36 serves to clean the anchor chain 14.
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patent: 4542555 (1985-09-01), Lundin
patent: 4543683 (1985-10-01), Goldman
Cassidy J. Robert
Roberts Edward L.
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