Package making – Methods – Group forming of contents into a unit
Reexamination Certificate
1998-08-07
2001-05-08
Vo, Peter (Department: 3721)
Package making
Methods
Group forming of contents into a unit
C015S244400
Reexamination Certificate
active
06226961
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present disclosure relates to a system for identifying cleaning articles for cleaning surfaces. More particularly, the present disclosure teaches an identification system for cleaning articles, such as a sponge, for a wide range of applications whereby an indicia relating to the intended application is provided to more readily identify the cleaning article and its intended application.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The utility of cleaning articles as used in the home, in businesses and elsewhere is well known. Such cleaning articles, such as sponges and wipes, are used in a wide variety of different, and often conflicting, cleaning applications. For example, such cleaning articles are commonly used for relatively sanitary cleaning applications, such as cleaning dishes, glassware, cooking pots and pans, kitchen countertops, kitchen cabinets, kitchen sinks, dining tables and other surfaces and items that come into contact with food or are used during the food preparation process.
Yet virtually identical cleaning articles are also commonly used for other and often dramatically less sanitary and hygienic cleaning applications, such as bathroom toilets, bathroom tubs, bathroom sinks, floors, walls, cars, boats and windows. Interchanging these applications obviously is undesirable, and possibly dangerous, owing to the buildup and retention of bacteria in such cleaning articles, particularly in the first application. Thus, users do not wish nor should they use the same cleaning articles to wash sanitary and non-sanitary applications.
Moreover, consumers also occasionally desire a ready and apparent means of identifying cleaning articles for use with specific tasks, such as waxing furniture, that ought not be used for other purposes, such as naptha used to clean wood surfaces. Also, certain cleansers contain chemicals that do not interact well with chemicals contained in other cleansers, for example, ammonia and chlorine bleach. Quickly identifying the purpose for which the cleaning article has been used in the past or is to be used as intended can help avoid such undesirable interactions.
Accordingly, to provide a solution to these problems, it is desirable that there be cleaning articles that can be readily identified as appropriate for a particular application and that are provided with a visual indicia indicating such particular application. Although in the past color, size and materials of the cleaning articles themselves were the key features used to identify cleaning articles, it is not uncommon that otherwise identical cleaning might be encountered, each having a very different intended application or the intended application for that specific cleaning article may have been forgotten.
In sum, an identification system for positively identifying individual cleaning articles for their specific intended cleaning application was needed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To overcome these and other disadvantages of the prior art, the present disclosure, briefly described, provides, in general form, an identification system for identifying individual cleaning articles comprising a plurality of cleaning articles, each of the cleaning articles having an external surface. A cleaning surface is disposed on the external surface intended for a specific application. Identifying means for identifying the specific intended application is applied to the cleaning article. Each of the plurality of cleaning articles is intended for a different specific intended application.
The identifying means can take several forms. It can be typed text affixed to the external surface of each of the plurality of cleaning articles, with the typed text corresponding to the specific intended application. The identifying means can be an identifiable symbol affixed to the external surface of each of the plurality of cleaning articles, the identifiable symbol corresponding to the specific intended application and being of a visual or tactile nature. The identifying means can also be an identifiable shape formed by the outer periphery of each of the plurality of cleaning articles, where the outer periphery corresponds to the specific intended application.
As will appear from the detailed description of the preferred embodiment to follow, the features of the cleaning articles render them suitable for a wide variety of conditions and uses. In addition to the convenience of rendering a plurality of cleaning articles quickly identifiable for their intended application, particularly where such applications include widely divergent applications such as dishes and bathroom floors, significant safety and health benefits are obtained from the present invention.
The above brief description sets forth rather broadly the more important features of the present disclosure so that the detailed description that follows may be better understood, and so that the present contributions to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining the several preferred embodiments of the disclosure in detail, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not limited in its application to the details of the construction and the arrangements set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The identification system for cleaning articles of the present disclosure is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for description and not limitation. Where specific dimensional and material specifications have been included or omitted from the specification or the claims, or both, it is to be understood that the same are not to be incorporated into the appended claims.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be used as a basis for designing other structures, methods, and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims are regarded as including such equivalent constructions as far as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the Abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with the patent or legal terms of phraseology, to learn quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. Accordingly, the Abstract is intended to define neither the invention nor the application, which is only measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
Therefore, it is the primary object to provide a new and improved identification system for identifying individual cleaning articles.
A further object is to provide an identification system for a plurality of cleaning articles, each of which has a specific intended application
Another object is to provide a readily identifiable identifying means on each of a plurality of cleaning articles for identifying the specific intended application of the cleaning article.
An additional object is to provide an identification system that lessens the likelihood of accidental interchange between a cleaning article intended for a sanitary application and a cleaning article intended for a less sanitary application.
A still further object is to provide an identification system that is inexpensively and easily applied to cleaning articles.
Yet another object is to provide an identification system that comprises textual material.
A further object is to provide an identification system that comprises different shapes for each of a plurality of cleaning articles, each shape corresponding to a different application.
An additional object is to provide an identification system that co
Huynh Louis
Price Heneveld Cooper DeWitt & Litton
Vo Peter
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