Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Processes – Using solid work treating agents
Reexamination Certificate
2002-09-04
2004-05-11
Graham, Gary K. (Department: 1744)
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Processes
Using solid work treating agents
C015S114000, C015S161000, C015S160000, C015S244100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06733595
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to personal hygiene device, and mor particularly pertains to a footbrush device for use in allowing a convenient means for cleaning a user's foot.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
The use of personal hygiene device is well known in the prior art. More specifically, personal hygiene 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 that have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
A wide variety of footbrush devices is currently available on the commercial market and an even larger number of these types of devices are known in the art of footbrush devices, for example, the utility cleaner and brush disclosed by Szabo and Szabo in U.S. Pat. No. 2,879,532; the foot scrubber with soap dispenser for user who cannot reach his feet disclosed by Slonicki in U.S. Pat. No. 4,532,668; the foot cleaning apparatus disclosed by Withey in U.S. Pat. No. 5,444,888; the reversible scrub brush and scraper disclosed by Carton in U.S. Pat. No. 5,479,673; the foot care shower brush disclosed by Blake in U.S. Pat. No. 5,560,068; and the cleaner for shoes and boots disclosed by Goble in U.S. Pat. No. D 355,734.
While all of the above-described devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a footbrush device having a U-shaped cushion pad defining two substantially parallel arms with a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad. These elements that would specifically match the user's particular individual needs of making it possible to abrasively scrub a section of the foot with the brush while maintaining a comfortable contact with the foot with the U-shaped cushion pad. The above-described patents make no provision for a footbrush device having a U-shaped cushion pad defining two substantially parallel arms with a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad so that the footbrush device can be used toto abrasively scrub a section of the foot with the brush while maintaining a comfortable contact with the foot with the U-shaped cushion pad.
Therefore, a need exists for a new and improved footbrush device having a having a U-shaped cushion pad defining two substantially parallel arms with a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad. In this respect, the footbrush device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a device for use in abrasively scrubbing a section of the foot with the brush while maintaining a comfortable contact with the foot with the U-shaped cushion pad.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present device, according to the principles of the present invention, overcomes the shortcomings of the prior art by providing a new and improved footbrush device comprising a wall hanger unit, an elongated handle, a bracket and a cleansing unit. The wall hanger unit is attachable to a wall. The elongated handle having a knob for slidably inserting and hanging in the open sleeve of the wall hanger unit. The bracket is attached to the distal end of the elongated handle. The cleansing unit is pivotally attached to the distal end of the bracket. The cleansing unit comprises a rigid base, a U-shaped cushion having two substantially parallel arms, and a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known type footbrush devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved footbrush device, which will be described subsequently in great detail, is to provide a new and improved footbrush device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by the prior art, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a wall hanger unit, an elongated handle, a bracket and a cleansing unit. The wall hanger unit is attachable to a wall. The elongated handle having a knob for slidably inserting and hanging in the open sleeve of the wall hanger unit. The bracket is attached to the distal end of the elongated handle. The cleansing unit is pivotally attached to the distal end of the bracket. The cleansing unit comprises a rigid base, a U-shaped cushion having two substantially parallel arms, and a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad.
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 of the art may be better appreciated.
The invention may also include an optional plurality of ridges on the top surface of the cleansing unit in which the plurality of ridges define a filing pad. There are of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims attached.
Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading of the following detailed description of presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiments of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompany drawings In this respect, before explaining the current 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.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved footbrush device that has all the advantages of the prior art footbrush device and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved footbrush device that may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved footbrush device that has 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 multipurpose storage unit and system economically available to the buying public.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new footbrush device that provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thererof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a footbrush device having a U-shaped cushion pad defining two substantially parallel arms with a brush sequestered between the two arms of the U-shaped cushion pad. These elements make it possible to abrasively scrub a section of the foot with the brush while maintaining a comfortable contact with the foot with the U-shaped cushion pad.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved method of using the new and improved
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