Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Implements – Sponge or sponge with holder
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-16
2001-07-10
Chin, Randall E. (Department: 1744)
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Implements
Sponge or sponge with holder
C015S118000, C015S209100, C015S229110
Reexamination Certificate
active
06256831
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a bath scrubber, and more particularly to a bath scrubber that has the ability to produce and gather bubbles thereon to provide a good cleaning and massaging effect.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the description hereunder, the term “bath scrubber” shall mean a device on which a cleaning product, such as a solid or liquid soap, may be applied for cleaning a user's body by frictionally contacting the device with the user's skin.
FIG. 1
illustrates a conventional bath scrubber
1
that includes an upper surface fabric
11
and a lower surface fabric
12
that are sewed up along their outer periphery to completely cover a sponge (not shown). It is the sponge that forms a main body of the bath scrubber
1
to hold sufficient amount of water in the bath scrubber
1
. The upper and the lower surface fabrics
11
and
12
, in addition to be used for covering the sponge, are used to frictionally contact with and thereby clean a user's skin. Such a conventional bath scrubber has at least the following disadvantages:
1. Both the upper and the lower surface fabrics
11
,
12
are woven cloth material and therefore have a very fine texture that is not rough enough to really frictionally contact with and clean the user's skin. It is only the cleaning product, that is, the solid or liquid soap, applied on the surface fabric
11
or
12
that has cleaning effect on the user's skin. The user's skin is not really scrubbed. In other words, the conventional bath scrubber
1
does not provide good cleansing effect.
2. The surface fabrics
11
and
12
made of woven cloth material usually have high density and tight texture and therefore have inferior ability of gathering and holding bubbles. Only a low quantity of tiny bubbles can be held on the conventional bath scrubber of FIG.
1
. This means an increased amount of cleaning product will be needed or an additional amount of cleaning product must be added to the surface fabrics
11
,
12
to produce more bubbles on the bath scrubber
1
. This forms an unnecessary waste of the cleaning product.
3. The surface fabrics
11
and
12
made of woven cloth material have fine and smooth surfaces that do not provide any massage effect on the user's skin.
It is therefore the intention of the inventor to develop a bath scrubber that has a suitably formed rough surface to gather and hold more bubbles for thoroughly cleaning the user's skin and provide good frictional contact with the user's skin to massage the same.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a bath scrubber having an outer bag made of a fabric woven from thin and thick yarns of twisted artificial fibers. The thin yarns are densely woven to form a base of the fabric and the thick yarns are evenly distributed among the thin yarns to divide the fabric into a plurality of small areas. These divided small areas among the thick yarns enable gathering and holding of more big bubbles on the outer bag of the bath scrubber to facilitate effective cleaning with reduced amount of cleaning product.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a bath scrubber having an outer bag made of a fabric woven from thin and thick yarns of twisted artificial fibers. A difference in height exists on the fabric between the thin and the thick yarns and gives the outer bag a rough surface that frictionally contacts with the user's skin to properly massage the same while removing impurities from the skin.
To achieve the above and other objects, the bath scrubber of the present invention mainly includes an outer bag and a sponge received in the outer bag. The outer bag is made of a fabric woven from thin and thick yarns of twisted artificial fibers. The thin yarns are densely woven to form a base of the fabric, and the thick yarns are evenly woven into and distributed among said thin yarns, such that the thick yarns intersect one another to divide the base of the fabric densely woven from the thin yarns into a plurality of separated small areas, and intersections of the thick yarns are wound by the thin yarns. The divided small areas among the thick yarns allow more bubbles to be held on the bath scrubber for a prolonged time. A difference in height exists on the fabric between the thin yarns and the thick yarns to give the fabric and therefore the outer bag of the bath scrubber a rough surface that enables good cleaning and massaging effect on a user's skin.
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Chin Randall E.
Confirm Personal Care Industrial Corp.
Pro-Techtor Inter-national Services
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