Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Machines – Brushing
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-12
2001-12-04
Spisich, Mark (Department: 1744)
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Machines
Brushing
C015S052100, C119S609000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06324713
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electric utility brush and more particularly pertains to a new hand-held motorized utility brush for grooming animals and collecting hair from furniture.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of an electric utility brush is known in the prior art. More specifically, an electric utility brush 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. Nos. 5,150,273; 4,168,560; 5,423,102; 4.476,602; 4,724,563; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 280,468.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a flew hand-held motorized utility brush. The inventive device includes a support member having a handle portion, an angled intermediate portion and an end portion and a bore extending therethrough; and also includes a motor securely mounted at the end portion of the support member and including a rotatable shaft; and further includes a plurality of bearings mounted about the motor; and also includes a sleeve rotatably mounted about the bearings and having a side wall and a plurality of brush retaining members spaced about and disposed in the side wall; and further includes a brush member being removably and rotatably mounted about the sleeve and being engageable with the rotatable shaft; and also includes a switch and a battery member for energizing the motor.
In these respects, the hand-held motorized utility brush 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 grooming animals and collecting hair from furniture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of electric utility brush now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new hand-held motorized utility brush construction wherein the same can be utilized for grooming animals and collecting hair from furniture.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush which has many of the advantages of the electric utility brush mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new hand-held motorized utility brush which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art electric utility brush, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a support member having a handle portion, an angled intermediate portion, and an end portion and a bore extending therethrough; and also includes a motor securely mounted at the end portion of the support member and including a rotatable shaft; and further includes a plurality of bearings mounted about the motor; and also includes a sleeve rotatably mounted about the bearings and having a side wall and a plurality of brush retaining members spaced about and disposed in the side wall; and further includes a brush member being removably and rotatably mounted about the sleeve and being engageable with the rotatable shaft; and also includes a switch and a battery member for energizing the motor.
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 hand-held motorized utility brush which has many of the advantages of the electric utility brush mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new hand-held motorized utility brush which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art electric utility brush, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush 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 hand-held motorized utility brush economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush 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 hand-held motorized utility brush for grooming animals and collecting hair from furniture.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush which includes a support member having a handle portion, an angled intermediate portion, and an end portion and a bore extending therethrough; and also includes a motor securely mounted at the end portion of the support member and including a rotatable shaft; and further includes a plurality of bearings mounted about the motor; and also includes a sleeve rotatably mounted about the bearings and having a side wall and a plurality of brush retaining members spaced about and disposed in the side wall; and further includes a brush member being removably and rotatably mounted about the sleeve and being engageable with the rotatable shaft; and also includes a switch and a battery member for energizing the motor.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new hand-held motorized utility brush that is easy and convenient to use.
Even still another object of the present invention is to pr
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