Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning inventions 09/06

20060207041 - Pool cleaner: A push side pool cleaner (1) has a spheroidal overall shape, within this shape two outer segments (9, 10) serve as wheels and a central zone (88) carries a suction passage (33) and a debris collector (32) also located entirely within the overall shape. The wheels are driven directly by...

20060207042 - Grill scrubbing device: A scrubbing device for use on a barbeque grill having a plurality of spaced rods, the scrubbing device including an elongate handle member having a first end and an opposite second end, a head member provided on the second end of the elongate handle member, and one or more scrubbing...

20060207043 - Tooth brush: In a toothbrush 1 comprising a head 2, neck 3 and handle 4 continuously formed in turn, a sucker portion 5 is coaxially formed on the tip end of the handle 4 opposite to the neck 3. The sucker portion 5 is made of the same material as an elastic...

20060207044 - Paintbrush rotation control system: A system for rotating a paintbrush that connects handle (31), which may also be connected to an extension pole, to a paintbrush (10) comprises a rotary connection device (36) or silicone tube sections (80, 81) including a first member (56) having an internal cylindrical surface (57) and a second member...

20060207045 - Device for removing scuff marks from floor: A tool for removing scuff marks from floors is connectable to a handle of standard floor tools. The tool includes an inflexible knob with a felt-type material covering. A user simply rubs the felt-type material against the scuffmark until the scuff mark is removed....

20060207046 - Powder applicator: A manually operable fine powder applicator has a pouch with an outer wall of pliant porous fabric and a layer of fabric adjacent the opposite side of the pouch. Space between the layer and the pouch forms a pocket such that the applicator can be worn on a hand. Fine...

20060207047 - Pleated fabric washer/buffer element, method of manufacture and method of attachment: A car wash brush is constructed using elements of pleated synthetic material. In one form, radially-pleated fabric discs are stacked on a shaft. In another form, a single length of material is laterally pleated and punched to form a continuous pattern of holes along one edge, and assembled onto a...

20060207048 - Efficient, hand-held matter removal systems: A hand-held tool for removal and scraping of matter, such as mortar, drywall and the like from surfaces such as containers, buckets and the like, thereby perhaps salvaging the matter for reuse as well as salvaging the container. A hand-held tool may include, in the various embodiments, a curved blade...

20060207049 - Ball and socket joint utilizing a single ball, for driving more than one driven member: An articulating ball joint for connecting a pair of driven members to a driving member such as a crank pin. In one embodiment, a single ball is held in a first, or inner, socket defined by a coupling member having a convex outer surface, and the first socket is held...

20060207050 - Windshield wiper structure: A windshield wiper structure includes a supporting member, a connection bracket straddled on a predetermined surface of the supporting member, and a wiper strip engaged with the supporting member. The supporting member includes two elongated arc sheets parallel to each other. The connection bracket has a base, two parallel plates...

20060207051 - Wiper arm and blade assembly having tension inducing projections: A wiper arm assembly including a primary bow and at least one secondary bow with a claw on at least one end of the secondary bow arranged to hold and guide a wiper blade. The secondary bow is rotatably attached to one end of the primary bow by means of...

20060207052 - Unattended spot cleaning apparatus: A spot cleaning apparatus comprises a fluid distribution system, a fluid recovery system, an agitation system, and a controller system to automatically monitor and control inputs and outputs to said systems for removal of spots and stains from a surface without attendance by a user. A suction nozzle and agitation...

20060207053 - Vacuum and cleaning apparatus: A vacuum cleaning device provides improved removal of dirt and cleaning solution while using less air flow than conventional cleaning devices, requiring less power to operate. The device utilizes an air control valve which may or may not be coupled to a liquid valve. An existing power system may then...

20060207054 - Steerable upright vacuum cleaner: A steerable upright vacuum cleaner includes an upright section including a dirt collecting portion, a collar on which the upright section is mounted and base section to which the collar is attached. The upright section is mounted on the collar such that the upright section pivots around a first axis...

20060207055 - Twin cyclone vacuum cleaner: An upright vacuum cleaner comprises a housing having a suction airstream inlet and a suction airstream outlet. A dirt container is selectively mounted to the housing for receiving and retaining dirt and dust separated from the suction airstream. The suction airstream inlet and the suction airstream outlet are in fluid...

20060200921 - Cleaning apparatus: A cleaning apparatus comprises a housing, a driving mechanism and a plurality of cleaning elements. The driving mechanism is disposed in the housing. The cleaning elements are connected to the driving mechanism. The driving mechanism rotates the cleaning elements to clean the emitters....

20060200922 - Powered toothbrush: A powered toothbrush is disclosed wherein portion of the toothbrush head is movable about a hinge. The movable portion of the head reciprocates about that hinge through the interaction of a flexible extension of that portion containing a slot. Movable within the slot is an offset end of a rotating...

20060200923 - Hydraulically dynamic mono-pig scraper: The invention concerns a pig scraper for cleaning the inside wall of a coating agent conduit. The pig scraper includes a body insertable in the conduit and at least one sealing lip that seals against the inside wall of the conduit and extends parallel to a longitudinal axis of the...

20060200924 - Compact cleaning device: The present invention relates to a compact cleaning device. The present invention allows for convenient and easy storage of a compact cleaning device....

20060200925 - Oral care implement: An oral care implement is provided having a handle and a head with tooth cleaning elements extending from fixed pods. Additional tooth cleaning elements extend from one or more central pods suspended between the fixed pods via a bridge. The bridge may be formed from an elastomer and permit the...

20060200926 - Carpet brush for hair removal: A fabric brush comprising a brush head having a top portion and a bottom portion. The bottom portion of the brush head has a plurality of projections extending downwardly therefrom. The plurality of projections comprise at least one row of aligned projections having a non-circular face extending opposite to the...

20060200928 - Cleaning sheets comprising multi-denier fibers: A cleaning sheet for removing particulate matter from a surface comprises a substrate comprising first fibers and second fibers having different denier to improve caliper of the cleaning sheet. The first and second fibers will typically have a denier of from about 0.5 to about 15, wherein the difference in...

20060200927 - Disposable cleaning sheets comprising a plurality of protrusions for removing debris from surfaces: Disposable cleaning sheets for removing debris from a surface comprise a substrate and a plurality of protrusions affixed to the substrate. The cleaning sheets of the present invention have one or more of the following characteristics: (a) “Protrusion Flexibility” of at least about 0.5 grams, preferably from about 1 to...

20060200929 - Flexible cleaning tool with replaceable non-woven pad and cleaning fluid reservoir: A flexible cleaning tool for use in wet, damp or dry cleaning is disclosed. The cleaning tool (222), (322) includes a handle (224) defining a fluid reservoir receiving cradle (231) pivotally connected to an elongated flexible support member (226) (326). A cleaning pad (228) (328) encloses the support rod (226)...

20060200930 - Duster: A duster comprises a wiping assembly; a wiping brush being installed below the wiping assembly; and a clamping cover for clamping the wiping assembly. In assembly state, a middle section of the cover is folded to clamp the wiping assembly and the wiping brush so that the middle section of...

20060200931 - Mop, and method for the production of a mopping cover for the mop: Disclosed is a method for producing a mopping cover (1) for a mop (2) comprising a support (3) and the mopping cover (1) which at least partly encloses the support (3). Said support (3) is provided with triangular faces (6, 7) that extend away from each other like arrows on...

20060200932 - Two blade scraping device: A hand-held scraper device containing a stowable multi blade pivoting head. The pivoting head is comprised of at least two scraping elements which remain at a fixed angle relative to each other while still allowing a pivoting action of the head assembly independently from the handle. The angle of the...

20060200933 - Microfiber cover for cleaning tool: A cleaning tool cover configured for removable application to a cleaning tool in order to provide a microfiber cleaning surface on the cleaning tool. The cleaning tool may include, for example, a sponge mop or a dust mop and the cleaning tool cover may be used wet or dry and...

20060200934 - Dust collecting unit of vacuum cleaner: A dust collecting unit for a vacuum cleaner is provided. The dust collecting unit includes a dust separating chamber with an air inlet formed on an outer surface thereof and an air outlet formed on one side thereof, a main dust collecting chamber formed in the dust separating chamber for...

20060200935 - Turbine brush of a vacuum cleaner: A turbine brush for a vacuum cleaner according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises a turbine brush body connected to a cleaner body in which a suction force is generated and having a suction path therein, a brush member rotatably mounted to the turbine brush body, a driving...

20060195991 - Transport cleaning device: A device for removing waste from a surface includes a housing, first and second agitators rotateably attached to the housing, each having an arcuate surface area and rotation in opposite direction. A third agitator is located between the first and second agitators, the third agitator having an arcuate surface area...

20060195992 - Manually-operated sweeper: A manually-operated sweeper, having a wheeled chassis with steering handlebar and a dirt collection container. The rear wheels actuate, by a first transmission, a first brush, a horizontal axis adapted to act on the surface that lies below the chassis, and, by a second transmission, a second brush, with vertical...

20060195993 - Rechargeable cleaning device, method and system: The invention is directed at a cleaning device (11) for picking up debris, a cleaning device system and a method using the device. The system includes: a support member (12) including a support surface (13); a cleaning pad (14) having an attachment side (70) and a substrate side (72), wherein...

20060195994 - Cleaning device for cleaning ducts and pipes: A cleaning device 100 for cleaning a generally elongated duct or pipe, including: a housing 120 having a front end 124 and a rear end 126; an inner-drum 300 having a front end 340, a rear end 360, a sidewall 380, and a sidewall inner-surface 400, the inner-drum 300 is...

20060195995 - Oral care implement: An oral care implement is provided having a handle and a head with a soft tissue cleanser and/or tooth cleaning elements. The tissue cleanser may include a plurality of projections for cleaning the soft tissue, which may include cleaning between the papillae of a user's tongue. The soft tissue cleanser...

20060195996 - Cleaning implement head with dual cleaning members: A cleaning tool implement has a cleaning head having dual parallel aligned supports. The supports can take the form of interconnected parallel plates which are configured and sized to receive and removeably secure cleaning elements, for example, bonnets with stranded mop, scrub pad, brush, cloth and sponge surfaces, which can...

20060195997 - Mophead: A mophead comprises a holder having an attachment location for attaching flexible absorbent mop material to the holder, and an attachment member which is spaced from the mop material attachment location and which can directly engage a scrub element with the holder independently of the mop material. The attachment member...

20060195998 - Cover for a toothbrush head: Cover for a toothbrush head having a spherical body simulating a small ball capable of receiving the brush head inside. The spherical body incorporates an orifice or opening of “T” configuration that is slightly larger than the cross section of the brush head with its bristles. The inside of the...

20060195999 - Vibrating toothbrush attachment: A vibrating cap attachment for an electric toothbrush for use as a sexual aid. The preferred embodiment of the cap includes knob-like protrusions on the top for enhanced sexual stimulation and a bore on the bottom for receiving the brush head and bristles of a standard electric toothbrush....

20060196000 - Reversible cleaning bonnet: A reversible cleaning bonnet has a unitary central body member with first and second face surfaces. The body is encompassed by a cover which has two cleaning surfaces, i.e. either two scrubbing, polishing, dusting, mopping, etc. surfaces, or any combination of these surfaces The cover also has an elastic band...

20060196001 - Device for extracting liquid from a wiping covering: The invention relates to a device for extracting liquid from a wiping covering of a surface wiping device which has a wiping head held on a handle and having two supporting arms, on which the wiping covering is held and which can be pivoted back and forth between a position...

20060196002 - Ultra-compact recessed wall mounted vacuum cleaner: An improved wail-mounted recessed vacuum cleaner system incorporates vibration dampening mounts between the motor and the outer housing, air channels within the housing to smooth air flow and reduced number of parts to significantly reduce the noise level during operation. The vacuum cleaner incorporates an extremely compact housing and motor...

20060196003 - Mobile robot having body sensor: In exemplary embodiments, a robot cleaner with improved safety features comprises a driving part for movably supporting a cleaner body and supplying a driving force for operating the cleaner body; a suction part mounted on the cleaner body to draw in dust from a surface being cleaned; a body sensor...

20060196004 - Cleaning head for a surface cleaning apparatus: A cleaning head for a surface cleaning apparatus comprises a housing having a surface contacting surface, a first inlet provided in the surface contacting surface and in communication with a first treatment stage and a second inlet spaced from the first inlet and provided in the surface contacting surface and,...

20060195991 - Transport cleaning device: A device for removing waste from a surface includes a housing, first and second agitators rotateably attached to the housing, each having an arcuate surface area and rotation in opposite direction. A third agitator is located between the first and second agitators, the third agitator having an arcuate surface area...

20060195992 - Manually-operated sweeper: A manually-operated sweeper, having a wheeled chassis with steering handlebar and a dirt collection container. The rear wheels actuate, by a first transmission, a first brush, a horizontal axis adapted to act on the surface that lies below the chassis, and, by a second transmission, a second brush, with vertical...

20060195993 - Rechargeable cleaning device, method and system: The invention is directed at a cleaning device (11) for picking up debris, a cleaning device system and a method using the device. The system includes: a support member (12) including a support surface (13); a cleaning pad (14) having an attachment side (70) and a substrate side (72), wherein...

20060195994 - Cleaning device for cleaning ducts and pipes: A cleaning device 100 for cleaning a generally elongated duct or pipe, including: a housing 120 having a front end 124 and a rear end 126; an inner-drum 300 having a front end 340, a rear end 360, a sidewall 380, and a sidewall inner-surface 400, the inner-drum 300 is...

20060195995 - Oral care implement: An oral care implement is provided having a handle and a head with a soft tissue cleanser and/or tooth cleaning elements. The tissue cleanser may include a plurality of projections for cleaning the soft tissue, which may include cleaning between the papillae of a user's tongue. The soft tissue cleanser...

20060195996 - Cleaning implement head with dual cleaning members: A cleaning tool implement has a cleaning head having dual parallel aligned supports. The supports can take the form of interconnected parallel plates which are configured and sized to receive and removeably secure cleaning elements, for example, bonnets with stranded mop, scrub pad, brush, cloth and sponge surfaces, which can...

20060195997 - Mophead: A mophead comprises a holder having an attachment location for attaching flexible absorbent mop material to the holder, and an attachment member which is spaced from the mop material attachment location and which can directly engage a scrub element with the holder independently of the mop material. The attachment member...

20060195998 - Cover for a toothbrush head: Cover for a toothbrush head having a spherical body simulating a small ball capable of receiving the brush head inside. The spherical body incorporates an orifice or opening of “T” configuration that is slightly larger than the cross section of the brush head with its bristles. The inside of the...

20060195999 - Vibrating toothbrush attachment: A vibrating cap attachment for an electric toothbrush for use as a sexual aid. The preferred embodiment of the cap includes knob-like protrusions on the top for enhanced sexual stimulation and a bore on the bottom for receiving the brush head and bristles of a standard electric toothbrush....

20060196000 - Reversible cleaning bonnet: A reversible cleaning bonnet has a unitary central body member with first and second face surfaces. The body is encompassed by a cover which has two cleaning surfaces, i.e. either two scrubbing, polishing, dusting, mopping, etc. surfaces, or any combination of these surfaces The cover also has an elastic band...

20060196001 - Device for extracting liquid from a wiping covering: The invention relates to a device for extracting liquid from a wiping covering of a surface wiping device which has a wiping head held on a handle and having two supporting arms, on which the wiping covering is held and which can be pivoted back and forth between a position...

20060196002 - Ultra-compact recessed wall mounted vacuum cleaner: An improved wail-mounted recessed vacuum cleaner system incorporates vibration dampening mounts between the motor and the outer housing, air channels within the housing to smooth air flow and reduced number of parts to significantly reduce the noise level during operation. The vacuum cleaner incorporates an extremely compact housing and motor...

20060196003 - Mobile robot having body sensor: In exemplary embodiments, a robot cleaner with improved safety features comprises a driving part for movably supporting a cleaner body and supplying a driving force for operating the cleaner body; a suction part mounted on the cleaner body to draw in dust from a surface being cleaned; a body sensor...

20060196004 - Cleaning head for a surface cleaning apparatus: A cleaning head for a surface cleaning apparatus comprises a housing having a surface contacting surface, a first inlet provided in the surface contacting surface and in communication with a first treatment stage and a second inlet spaced from the first inlet and provided in the surface contacting surface and,...