Coating implements with material supply – Material flows through porous tool – Including compartment for soluble solid material
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-13
2001-11-20
Eloshway, Charles R. (Department: 3751)
Coating implements with material supply
Material flows through porous tool
Including compartment for soluble solid material
C206S077100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318922
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to bathing devices and more particularly pertains to a new cleaning implement for holding a bar of soap therein for efficient displacement of soap on the body.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of bathing devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, bathing devices heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 2,958,885; U.S. Pat. No. 4,457,640; U.S. Pat. No. 4,228,834; U.S. Pat. No. 5,031,759; U.S. Pat. No. 5,462,378; and U.S. Des. Pat. No. 317,401.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new cleaning implement. The inventive device includes a housing. The housing has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall and a pair of lateral side walls such that a top side of the housing has an opening therein for access to an inside of the housing. Each of the bottom, front, back and lateral side walls has a plurality of holes therethrough. The housing comprises a cloth material. A flap selectively opens and closes the top side of the housing. The flap has a back edge integrally coupled to and extending along a length of a top edge of the back wall. The flap comprises a cloth material. The flap has a plurality of holes therein.
In these respects, the cleaning implement according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of holding a bar of soap therein for efficient displacement of soap on the body.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of bathing devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new cleaning implement construction wherein the same can be utilized for holding a bar of soap therein for efficient displacement of soap on the body.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new cleaning implement apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the bathing devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cleaning implement which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art bathing devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a housing. The housing has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall and a pair of lateral side walls such that a top side of the housing has an opening therein for access to an inside of the housing. Each of the bottom, front, back and lateral side walls has a plurality of holes extending therethrough. The housing comprises a cloth material. A flap selectively opens and closes the top side of the housing. The flap has a back edge integrally coupled to and extending along a length of a top edge of the back wall. The flap comprises a cloth material. The flap has a plurality of holes therein.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention 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 the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing 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 patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new cleaning implement apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the bathing devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cleaning implement which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art bathing devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new cleaning implement which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new cleaning implement which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such cleaning implement economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement for holding a bar of soap therein for efficient displacement of soap on the body.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement which includes a housing. The housing has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall and a pair of lateral side walls such that a top side of the housing has an opening therein for access to an inside of the housing. Each of the bottom, front, back and lateral side walls has a plurality of holes extending therethrough. The housing comprises a cloth material. A flap selectively opens and closes the top side of the housing. The flap has a back edge integrally coupled to and extending along a length of a top edge of the back wall. The flap comprises a cloth material. The flap has a plurality of holes therein.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement that has a gripping member thereon for placement around the hand of a user for ease of use.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new cleaning implement that has a hanging member thereon for hanging the device when not in use.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the inventi
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