Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Device with applicator having specific movement
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-06
2001-01-16
Yu, Justine R. (Department: 3764)
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Device with applicator having specific movement
C601S131000, C601S136000, C601S137000, C601S132000, C015S222000, C015S209100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06174297
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a bag-like bath scrubber having massage balls received therein, and more particularly to a bag-like bath scrubber having more than one row of massage balls separately and rotatably fitted in divided spaces in the bath scrubber.
A conventional bag-like bath scrubber with massage balls, as the one shown in
FIG. 18
, mainly includes several superposed layers of inner nets
11
and a layer of outer net
12
. Some massage balls
40
are put into a large space defined by the inner nets
11
. Strings
41
are used to tighten portions of the inner nets
11
between any two adjacent massage balls
40
as well as two outer ends of the inner nets
11
, so that the massage balls
40
are arranged in a straight line but separately rotatably confined in a small space in the inner nets
11
. The inner nets
11
containing the massage balls
40
are then covered with the outer net
12
. Two open ends of the superposed inner nets
11
and outer net
12
are tightened by binding strings (not shown) threaded through meshes of the nets along circumferential edges of the open ends and then knotted. Two loops
20
are separately provided in the open ends of the superposed inner and outer nets
11
,
12
with the binding strings extended through them, such that the loops
20
are integrally attached to the nets
11
,
12
with any knots
21
on the loops
20
invisible from outside of the bath scrubber.
Following are some drawbacks of the above-described conventional bath scrubber with massage balls:
1. The massage balls
40
are separately restricted in small spaces in the inner nets
11
by tying strings
41
around the nets
11
between two adjacent massage balls
40
. The massage balls
40
might not be able to rotate freely and provide good massage effect if the nets
11
are too tightly tied. On the other hand, the massage balls
40
might undesirably come into contact with one another and/or form big lumps in the nets
11
to cause discomfort to a user if the nets
11
are too loosely tied.
2. To avoid forming lumps in the bath scrubber, only one row of massage balls
40
are provided in the bath scrubber by confining each massage ball in a small space in the inner nets
11
formed by tying strings
41
around the nets
11
. Therefore, there is only limited and narrow contact area on the bath scrubber between the massage balls
40
and a user's skin.
3. Due to the layer of outer net
12
that is loosely covered over the inner nets
11
, the massage balls
40
in the inner nets
11
might not be able to freely rotate in the small spaces to massage the user while the user uses the bath scrubber to clean his or her skin.
It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop an improved bag-like bath scrubber to eliminate the drawbacks existing in the conventional bath scrubber and to provide better cleaning and massage effects.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a bag-like bath scrubber having massage balls fitted therein in manners that allow each massage ball to rotate freely and smoothly only in a specific restricted space when a user is using the bath scrubber to clean skin.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a bag-like bath scrubber having massage balls fitted therein in manners that allow the massage balls to be arranged in the bag-like bath scrubber in more than one row to provide increased contact area on the bath scrubber between the massage balls and the user's skin.
To achieve the above and other objects, the big-like bath scrubber of the present invention mainly includes a bag formed from a back piece, a front nylon piece, and a border strip that are sewed up in predetermined sequences, and a plurality of massage balls fitted in a space defined by the bag-like bath scrubber.
The initially formed bag has an open end with a flap extended from the back piece. The massage balls are positioned into the bag via the open end before the flap is turned and sewed onto the bag to seal the open end. The flap is so turned and sewed onto the bag that a narrow space is left between it and the sealed open end for a cord to extend therethrough before the cord is knotted to form a loop for conveniently hanging the bag-like bath scrubber at a desired position.
In a preferred embodiment, the massage balls are positioned in the bag of the bath scrubber in two rows. The two rows of massage balls are individually fixed in place by providing restricting means on the back piece and the front nylon piece at positions among any four adjacent massage balls. The restricting means divide the space defined by the bag of the bath scrubber into several smaller spaces that each confines a massage ball therein but allows the massage ball to freely and smoothly rotate when the bag is moved on the user's skin to and fro to clean the skin. These arrangements enable the bath scrubber to hold more cleansing bubbles and provide improved massage effect.
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patent: 3377121 (1968-04-01), Billesbach et al.
patent: 3977796 (1976-08-01), Gillespie et al.
patent: 4169466 (1979-10-01), Wong
patent: 5545456 (1996-08-01), Suida
patent: 5736213 (1998-04-01), Meier
patent: 5898968 (1999-05-01), Beattie
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Yu Justine R.
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