Coating implements with material supply – Brush – broom – or mop – With flow-regulator
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-28
2001-04-03
Eloshway, Charles R. (Department: 3751)
Coating implements with material supply
Brush, broom, or mop
With flow-regulator
Reexamination Certificate
active
06210064
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to cleaning devices and, in particular, to such devices which carry and dispense cleaning fluid. The invention relates in particular to a soap-dispensing brush.
Prior soap-dispensing cleaning devices are known, which include a housing defining a soap-containing reservoir, a wall of the housing carrying a cleaning medium, such as a sponge, brush or the like. A valve assembly dispenses fluid from the reservoir to the cleaning medium. In one such device the valve assembly includes a stem which extends upwardly through an opening in a cap which closes the upper end of the reservoir. The portion of the stem which extends upwardly through the cap defines a manually-actuated push button for opening the valve, which is spring-biased to a normally closed position. While such devices operate well in dispensing soap to the cleaning medium, they tend to leak cleaning fluid through the push button opening in the cap if the device is inverted or turned on its side, either in use or in storage or the like.
It is also known to provide cleaning devices with frictional gripping surfaces at hand-engaging portions.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a general object of the invention to provide an improved fluid-containing cleaning device which avoids the disadvantages of prior such devices while affording additional structural and operating advantages.
An important feature of the invention is the provision os a fluid-containing cleaning device of the type set forth, which has a manually-actuated, fluid-dispensing valve assembly which does not leak.
In connection with the foregoing feature, another feature of the invention is the provision of a device of the type set forth, which can be used or stored in any orientation without danger of leakage.
Still another feature of the invention is the provision of a device of the type set forth, which is of simple and economical construction.
Certain ones of these and other features of the invention may be attained by providing a fluid-containing cleaning device comprising: an open-top housing defining a fluid reservoir, a scrubbing medium carried by the housing, a valve carried by the housing for providing communication between the reservoir and the scrubbing medium and having a valve stem extending through the reservoir, a cap for closing the open top of the housing and having an opening therein for receiving the valve stem, and a flexible and resilient seal member covering the cap and providing a fluid-tight seal around the opening therein while accommodating manual actuation of the valve stem from above the cap.
The invention consists of certain novel features and a combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the details may be made without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.
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Photograph of Kellogg Brush.
Photograph of Acme International Inc. Brush (1994).
Photographs of Rite-Aid Soap-Fillable Brush Drawing No. 1384 of OXO Scrubbing Brush (1995).
Copy of Packaging Card for Phoenixware Brush (1991).
Chapman Dean
White Carly R.
Eloshway Charles R.
General Housewares Corp.
Shaw Seyfarth
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