Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning inventions 12/06

20060288505 - Complex motion toothbrush: A detachable head for use with an electric toothbrush is provided. The electric toothbrush has a handle with a motor disposed therein at a first end of the toothbrush. The toothbrush also has a head at a second end, the head having a longitudinal axis, the head also having a... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060288504 - Topper for power toothbrush and method for forming the same: A decorative piece in the form of a topper designed to seat at the base of the shaft and extending from the handle body of a powered toothbrush is provided. The topper is formed as a single molded piece on top of a base ring having a central hole that... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060288506 - Composite cleaning device for an automobile: An elongated pie shaped composite cleaning device for removing snow, frost, scraped ice debris, bird droppings, dirt or water from a automotive exterior surface has 1. a stiff rectangular plastic sheet, folded into half, providing a pair of slightly curbed exterior sides and a pair of substantially straight scraping edges,... Agent: Dae S. Kim

20060288507 - Toothbrush: A toothbrush includes a head and a plurality of tooth cleaning elements for enhanced cleaning of the teeth. The tooth cleaning elements include cleaning elements that define a loop arrangement for better retention of the dentifrice, a central cleaning element disposed within the loop, two opposing arcuate cleaning elements disposed... Agent: Colgate-palmolive Company

20060288508 - Extendable cleaning implement having two support heads: A cleaning tool 410 designed to be used with at least one cleaning implement/replaceable dusting sleeve/cleaning mitt or cleaning pad 11 is disclosed. The cleaning tool 410 includes a telescoping support 409 comprised of a plurality of telescopingly received shafts or sections (412, 413, 414, 415) wherein one of the... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20060288509 - Threaded connector with interlock: A threaded connector includes a base and a threaded male portion projecting axially outward from the base. The threaded male portion is adapted to mate with an associated threaded female socket. The threaded male portion includes a helical thread comprising three sections: (i) a lead-in section; (ii) a transitional cam-locking... Agent: Steven M. Haas, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060288510 - Toothbrush: A toothbrush made partly of a hard plastic material and partly of an elastomeric material, characterized in that at least part of the elastomeric material comprises an inner core (23) of a first soft elastomeric material wholly or partly enclosed within an outer flexible skin (24) of a second polymer... Agent: Glaxosmithkline Corporate Intellectual Property - Uw2220

20060288511 - Cosmetic brush and method of fixing tuft of bristles of said cosmetic brush: Disclosed herein is a cosmetic brush and method of fixing tuft of bristles of said cosmetic brush, which can prevent twist of a tuft of bristles, when the tuft of bristles is rotated in a liquid cosmetics having high-viscosity upon the screw-coupling of a cap and a cosmetic container with... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060288512 - Cleaning attachment for a brush: An elastic fabric member (16, 16′) closely surrounds a base portion (12, 12′) of a hairbrush (10, 10′) from which the bristles (B, B′) of the brush extend. Fabric member (16, 16′) includes openings (22) through which the bristles (B, B′) extend when the fabric member (16, 16′) is substantially... Agent: Delbert J. Barnard

20060288513 - Windshield wiper assembly with multiple separately activated wiper strips: A windshield wiper blade assembly having a plurality of wiper strips on a support, one of the wiper strips being normally positioned to engage a windshield while leaving non-engaged the remainder of the plurality of wiper strips, and rotation means for moving the engaged strip to a non-engaging position and... Agent: John L. Sigalos

20060288514 - Foreign matter removing apparatus: A foreign matter removing apparatus which removes foreign matter existing on a mounting surface of a printed board unit. The foreign matter removing apparatus includes a holder which holds the printed board unit in its desired attitude, an electromagnetic vibrator which generates continuous shock wave having repeated waveform, and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060288515 - Sootblower frame assembly: A sootblower frame particularly adapted for long retracting-type sootblowers for cleaning of internal surfaces of large scale combustion devices. The frame, preferably formed from sheet metal stock, incorporates integrally formed surfaces and configuration features which provide for guiding and movement of the sootblower carriage assembly. The side panels of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060288516 - Handheld mechanical soft-surface remediation (ssr) device and method of using same: A handheld mechanical soft-surface remediation (SSR) device and method of dislodging, displacing, and disposing of particulates from surfaces and performing disinfection and/or freshening is disclosed. The device is preferably lightweight, easy-to-use and includes a fan assembly, filter assembly, flapper assembly, battery assembly, and chemical delivery system. Performing soft-surface remediation with... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20060288517 - Vacuum cleaner having wet cleaning function: A vacuum cleaner with a wet cleaning function comprises a main body, a brush assembly having a contaminant suction port facing a cleaning surface, a brush of the contaminant suction port to rotate in contact with the cleaning surface, and a water exhaust nozzle, the contaminants suction port is fluidly... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060288518 - Surface cleaning apparatus with cleaning fluid supply: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a fluid delivery system including a supply of cleaning fluid and a fluid recovery system for drawing dirty cleaning fluid from the surface to be cleaned. The apparatus can comprise a passageway that passes heated motor cooling air in heat exchange with the cleaning fluid... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20060288519 - Surface treating device with top load cartridge-based cleaning systsem: A robotic surface treating device that can perform carpet sweeping, hard-surface dry sweeping/wiping, and hard-surface sweeping/mopping is disclosed. The robotic surface treating device includes a sweeper brush, a dust bin for collecting debris from the brush, a reel-to-reel sheet of cleaning material, and a fluid delivery system for delivering fluid... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20060288520 - Up-right type vacuum cleaner: The present invention relates to an up-right type vacuum cleaner having a weight compensation unit to share weight of main body. The up-right type vacuum cleaner includes a brush assembly having a pair of wheels, a main body being rotatably disposed to the brush assembly, a spiral spring being disposed... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060288522 - Bare floor shifter for vacuum cleaner: A bare floor switch assembly for a power head or an upright vacuum cleaner includes a mounting bracket, an idler and idler arm pivotally mounted to the mounting bracket, a biaser for biasing the idler and idler arm to an agitator drive interrupting position and a switch body for engaging... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20060288521 - Electric vacuum cleaner: An electric vacuum cleaner comprises a vertical type cleaner body provided with a dust collection chamber a handle protrusively provided on an upper portion of the cleaner body, a suction nozzle provided on an lower portion of the cleaner body in such a manner as to communicate with the dust... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20060282962 - Turbine drive apparatus and method suited for suction powered swimming pool cleaner: A method and apparatus for enabling a pool cleaner to travel through a water pool to collect dirt and other debris from the water and/or pool containment wall. The cleaner defines a suction passageway having an inlet open to pool water and an outlet adapted to be coupled via a... Agent: Arthur Freilich

20060282963 - Electric toothbrush head: A head for an electric toothbrush includes a support member having a plurality of holes extending completely therethrough. A plurality of tufts of bristles each extends through one of the holes. A first brushing end of each tuft projects from a first side of the support member. Each tuft is... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060282964 - Motorized broom and collector: A cleaning device has an elongated handle attached to a housing. The housing includes a stationary brush extending through the housing. Also, the housing includes a rotatable brush, as well as a debris collector. In a first position the cleaning device is used as a conventional broom. The handle is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060282965 - Cleaning head for use in a floor cleaning machine: A cleaning head for use with a floor cleaning machine comprises first and second cleaning tools, at least one motor and a cleaning tool support. The at least one motor is configured to respectively drive rotation of the first and second cleaning tools about first and second horizontal axes. The... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20060282966 - Cleansing pad: A cleansing pad (10) is made of a web of fibers, forming a substrate (11), where the substrate (11) includes a cleansing agent (12) therein. The cleansing agent (12) is a pourable soap. In making the cleansing pad (10), the cleansing agent (12) is initially heated from solid form into... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20060282967 - Golf club head cleaner: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to cleaning golf club heads. In aspects, an appliance is described for removing debris from a golf club head. The appliance may include a base that includes a first base surface and a second base surface, and a brushing assembly disposed along... Agent: Jardine Law Offices

20060282968 - Wiping pad for private parts: Disclosed herein is a wiping pad for private parts for use by females to clean the vaginal region after urination. The feminine hygienic pad (1) comprises an absorptive layer (10) for absorbing urine, a vaginal contact layer (20) for coating one surface of the absorptive layer in order to prevent... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20060282969 - Cleaning tool sheet and cleaning tool: The present invention relates to a cleaning tool sheet and a cleaning tool capable of use for wiping cleaning by contacting the surface of objects to be cleaned in various locations. In a cleaning tool sheet (1), fiber bundles (3) are laminated on one side face of a base sheet... Agent: Sherman & Associates

20060282970 - Apparatus for applying a liquid coating onto an object: The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a liquid coating onto an object. The apparatus includes a device that has a handle and a transfer medium which is attached to the handle. The apparatus further includes a cover that is attached to the device. The cover includes a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20060282971 - Vehicle wiper apparatus: A vehicle wiper apparatus for wiping a windshield glass with a wiper blade includes drive means for reciprocating the wiper blade in an arcuate wiping area, and a first washer fluid spray means, provided on the drive means, for spraying a washer fluid. The first washer fluid spray means sprays... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060282973 - Windshield wiper structure: The present invention discloses an improved windshield wiper structure that includes a wiper arm having a latch disposed at the middle of the wiper arm, a wiper blade integrally fixed with the wiper arm; two auxiliary plates disposed on both left and right sides of the latch on the wiper... Agent: Chi-sheng Chang

20060282972 - Windshield wiper structure for vehicles: A windshield wiper structure for vehicles, comprises a truss saddle, a bow elastic stripe, a cover body, some detachable clamping devices, a strip scraper and a frame cover; wherein, some hollow pressure adjusting vents are created on said bow elastic stripe in order to keep nearly same elasticity at every... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060282974 - Backing strip for windshield wiper: A backing strip for a windshield wiper assembly includes a pair of rails. Each of the pair of rails includes a body portion and a detent portion. The detent portion includes a cut-out on each side thereof. The cut-outs form at least a pair of hooks on each side of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060282975 - Floor sweeping and scrubbing machine: A hard floor sweeping and scrubbing machine includes a mobile body comprising a frame supported on wheels for travel over a surface, a motorized cleaning head, a waste hopper, a hopper lift and a vacuum squeegee. The motorized cleaning head is attached to the mobile body and is configured to... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20060282976 - Vacuum cleaner: A vacuum cleaner comprising a floor-engaging unit having a suction inlet, an upright body mounted to said floor-engaging unit and including means for creating a suction and means for separating and collecting dirt from an airstream drawn in by said suction, a unit having a handle and a tubular portion... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20060282977 - Dirt separation system for a vacuum cleaner: A vacuum cleaner includes a dirt separation system that has a dirt cup retaining a filter assembly having a screen element, an exit, and a filter element disposed between the screen element and the exit. A nozzle disposed in the dirt cup directs an airstream generally parallel to the surface... Agent: A. Burgess Lowe

20060282978 - Rotating dust wand: A dust wand comprising a body and a brush rotatably disposed on the body. A suction chamber is disposed within the body. The suction chamber comprises an inlet port disposed adjacent to an outer edge of the brush and a contacting surface that contacts the outer edge of the brush.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20060282980 - Powered mechanical apparatus for removing frost and snow from windshield and other viewing areas: A handheld mechanized windshield scraper with a built-in blower to remove snow, ice and other material from a motor vehicle windshield and window panes. The blower tube is tapered to increase air velocity. A plurality of scraper blades is rotatably mounted on a shaft away from the blower to scrape... Agent: Narayanan M. Subramanian

20060282979 - Suction nozzle and head of vacuum cleaner having the same: A suction nozzle and a head of a cleaner having the same includes a suction hole to which a suction force is applied; an air channel formed as a closed region having predetermined area and depth and having the suction hole therein; and scraper longer than an end of an... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060277701 - Toothbrush with resilient head section: A powered toothbrush is provided and includes a handle portion having a neck formed at one end and a head coupled to the neck. The head includes a first carrier coupled to the head and operatively connected to a drive mechanism for moving the first carrier in a first path... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060277702 - Post-cmp cleaning system: A method and system for cleaning the wafer after CMP is disclosed. A brush module having at least two brushes placed adjacent to each other and having the wafer placed in between. A dummy roller is in contact with an edge of the wafer and follows a rotation of the... Agent: Howard Chen Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20060277703 - Paint pellet gun able to replace a pellet tube quickly: A paint pellet gun able to replace a pellet tube quickly includes a pellet tube holder assembled on the pellet-dropping hole of a gun body. The pellet tube holder is bored with a pellet-dropping hole, an insert hole having one side cut with a horizontal insert slot, and a vertical... Agent: Pao-tung Shih

20060277704 - Cleaning apparatus: The cleaning apparatus comprises a frame, at least one support device supported on said frame, at least one surface cleaning element, fitted integrally on said support device, which is supported on said frame in a rotating manner between at least one first active work position wherein said at least one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060277705 - Brush assembly: The invention relates to a brush assembly (1) comprising a retaining body (3), which is held by a retaining handle (2) and to which a cleaning element (4) can be fixed in a first functional position. The cleaning element (4) can be transferred from the first functional position into at... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20060277706 - Implement for use with a cleaning sheet: An implement for cleaning household fabric-based materials. The implement may be used in conjunction with a cleaning sheet for cleaning household fabric-based materials. The invention also relates to a method for cleaning household fabric-based materials utilizing the implement of the present invention in conjunction with a cleaning sheet.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060277707 - Scraper device: A scraper device for use on motor vehicle windshields and other surfaces that require the removal of unwanted adherent matter is provided. The scraper device includes an extremely durable, credit card-sized laminate body having scraping edge surfaces that provide superior scraping capabilities. One of the scraper edge surfaces includes a... Agent: Law Office Of Peter G. Korytnyk. PLLC

20060277708 - Squeegee for curved surfaces: A T-shaped squeegee for any smooth surface, contoured or flat, comprises a thin elastic cleaning element with two parallel cleaning edges, a supporting curved and protruding rigid blade that can produce continuously varied curvature by changing the angle of attack, a handle, and holder that connect the blade and the... Agent: Dae S. Kim, Phd

20060277709 - Mop wringer: A mop wringer comprises a basket having an opening for accepting a mophead having mop material to be wrung, and a lever-operated mechanically assisted pressing mechanism including a press member for pressing the mop material of the mophead into or against the basket, and an elongate lever for operating the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060277710 - Portable boot washing stand: A portable boot washing stand for holding boots above the ground in a position to prevent the inside of the boot from getting wet during washing comprises a base and at least two boot holders. The base legs are of a size, shape, and stiffness to easily push into the... Agent: Kathleen K. Bowen Co. Lpa

20060277711 - Vacuum cleaner: A vacuum cleaner for reducing noise from being transmitted to the exterior. The vacuum cleaner includes a main body forming an outer appearance of the vacuum cleaner and including a blower unit for generating suction force and blowing force and a discharge hole through which purified air from which foreign... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060277712 - Vacuum cleaner: An object of the present invention is to provide a dust collecting device in a vacuum cleaner replacement of which dust collecting filter is easy. To achieve this, the present invention provides a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body having a body suction opening, and a fan-motor assembly for forced... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060277713 - Vacuum turbo nozzle with movable visor: A vacuum cleaner accessory tool having a housing with a brushroll chamber and an air turbine/motor chamber. The tool has a first inlet into the brushroll chamber, a second inlet into the brushroll chamber, and a hollow attachment tube extending from the housing. The hollow attachment tube is in fluid... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20060277714 - Collector and separator apparatus for lawn and garden: An apparatus for collection and reduction of yard debris combining a frontally facing rotor-assisted vacuum pick up having through-put-enhancing features with a blower unit to induce airflow for entraining debris collected at the vacuum pick up; reduce the entrained debris to a more manageable volume; impel the reduced debris to... Agent: Charles E. Dunning

20060272112 - Toothbrush: A toothbrush includes a head and a tooth cleaning element extending from a top surface of the head. The head is divided into at least two portions which can be moved independent of each other. The tooth cleaning element is rotatable relative to that portion of the head from which... Agent: Patent & Trademark Counsel The Gillette Company

20060272113 - Double sided toothbrush for cleaning teeth: A double-sided toothbrush includes bristles on opposite sides of the brushing head. Primary bristles are provided for routine brushing. Opposed secondary bristles are provided for additional or specialty brushings. The double-sided toothbrush with bristles on both sides may easily be positioned in the mouth for cleaning plaque and food particles... Agent: Mark James Young

20060272114 - Surgical scrub brush and cleaner apparatus: A scrub brush-sponge includes a base provided with a recessed peripheral lip, which has a plurality of attenuated regions configured to minimize the resistance of the base to external bending forces, and a sponge coupled to the base and made from polymeric material, which may have as low a PPI... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20060272115 - 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, wherein the cleaning sheet is removably attachable to a cleaning implement. The protrusions are preferably hook-shaped. The preferred hook-shaped protrusions can be made of certain thermoplastic resins and can... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060272116 - Reversible scrubbing gloves: Reversible scrubbing gloves include glove palms, back-hand surfaces, thumb and finger elements provided with scrub pads. In one glove configuration the bottom or gripping segments of the index, middle and ring fingers are provided with bristles, while the top or opposite portions of the index finger, middle finger and ring... Agent: John M. Harrison

20060272117 - Combination squeegee and hand trowel tool: The present invention is a combination squeegee (i.e., a scraper) and hand trowel tool. The tool can be conveniently used to first remove a material from a can, bucket or other material container and then used to spread the material evenly on a surface or substrate. The tool has a... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20060272118 - Wiper unit controller and method for controlling wiper unit: A wiper unit controller for performing wiping at an accurate intermittent wipe cycle. The controller stores a maximum resistance value of a variable resistor having a resistance value that varies in accordance with the intermittent wipe cycle. When a reference time elapses after calculating a resistance value that exceeds the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20060272119 - Windscreen wiper device: A windscreen wiper device comprising at least one yoke which is attached to a carrier in such a manner as to be capable of pivotating movement about a first pivot axis, wherein both said carrier and said yoke have a substantially U-shaped cross-section at the location of their interconnection, said... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20060272120 - Extraction cleaner: A cleaning device having a housing, a hose assembly and a cleaning head. The housing has a first supply tank to contain a first fluid, a recovery tank, a vacuum fan to generate a working air flow through the recovery tank, and a fluid pump having an inlet and an... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20060272121 - Rotating brush attachment for use with a vacuum: A motorized vacuum brush head for use with a vacuum. The brush head has a body with an air passage passing though it. The face of the brush head faces the surface being cleaned. A rotatable brush and the air passage mouth are on the face. The brush is flat... Agent: Neil J. Coig

20060272122 - Vacuum brushroll edge cleaner: An agitator assembly having a spindle having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis. One or more primary agitators are attached to the spindle between the first end and the second end, and edge agitators are attached in a generally circumferential pattern around the spindle's first end.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20060272123 - Dust catcher: A dust catcher has a contact element configured to catch abraded material that is produced by a power tool on a workpiece, and the contact element includes a handgrip element for holding the contact element on the workpiece.... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby