Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning inventions 01/08

20080022469 - Dental cleaning device: An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080022470 - Dental cleaning device: An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080022471 - Dental cleaning device: An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080022472 - Cleaning tool assembly with a disposable cleaning implement: A cleaning assembly including a disposable cleaning implement having a cleaning element mounted to a fitment having an elongated post. The cleaning assembly includes an elongated maneuvering wand having a handle portion and a distal implement attachment end thereof. A gripping mechanism is coupled to the wand attachment end, and... Agent: The Clorox Company

20080022474 - Paint roller shield: A paint roller sleeve includes an inner tube, an outer pile surface, an end cap, a circular disk shaped shield disposed between the end cap and the inner tube, and a foam disk disposed between the shield and the pile surface.... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20080022475 - Arrangement for self-releasing connection of a windscreen wiper arm on a driving shaft: The invention relates to a disengageable arrangement for connecting a windscreen-wiper arm to a drive shaft driven in rotation about its longitudinal axis (5), comprising a device solidly attached to the arm and providing the connection of the arm (3, 4) and the drive shaft in the normal operating position... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080022482 - Surface treating appliance: A surface treating appliance, such as a vacuum cleaner, includes a main body, a surface treating head and a support assembly. The support assembly is rollably mounted to the main body for allowing the main body to be rolled along a surface. The support assembly also houses a component of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080022484 - Versatile tools: A hand held device for cleaning surfaces and driving fasteners is disclosed. The device can include a housing, a drive disposed within the housing, a dusting brush coupled to the drive, and a conduit extending from a first end of the housing along the dusting brush. The conduit can have... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080022485 - Surface cleaning appartus: A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a debris retrieval body (3; 203; 403) and at least one collection means (67; 69; 259; 413; 447) provided within the debris retrieval body for accumulating debris from a surface to be cleaned. A rotatable elongate brush arrangement (39; 223; 427) is also provided within... Agent: Law Office Of Ira S. Dorma

20080022486 - Vacuum cleaner motor assembly: A vacuum cleaner motor assembly comprises a motor in a bucket 32, arranged to drive a fan to provide airflow. An epicyclic gear system 34 is attached to the output shaft 33 of the motor, to produce an output of reduced rotational speed. The output is employed to drive an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080016631 - Obstacle following sensor scheme for a mobile robot: A robot obstacle detection system including a robot housing which navigates with respect to a surface and a sensor subsystem aimed at the surface for detecting the surface. The sensor subsystem includes an emitter which emits a signal having a field of emission and a photon detector having a field... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080016633 - Electric toothbrushes: An electric toothbrush is provided. The electric toothbrush includes a handle having an electric motor, a head, and a neck extending between the handle and the head. The head has first end disposed adjacent to the neck and a second end opposite the first end. The head has a first... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080016632 - Pushing handle: A pushing handle for a manually operated machine, in particular for a sweeping machine, with at least one machine-side connecting device, is provided, where the pushing handle is designed with a handle-side connecting device. The pushing handle is swivellably mountable on the machine-side connecting device of the machine by way... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080016634 - Mops with one or more cleaning members: Mops comprising one or more cleaning members. In select embodiments, the cleaning members are releasably secured to the mop and may be capable of compression. In these embodiments, the different cleaning members enable the mop to operate in a plurality of different modes, including a wringing mop mode, a damp... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20080016637 - Antibacterial cosmetic brush: Disclosed is an antibacterial cosmetic brush, in which an antibacterial material is applied to animal hair so as to prevent bacteria, including E. coli or Pneumococcus, from propagating on the cosmetic brush. According to the disclosed invention, it is possible to prevent bacteria from propagating on a cosmetic brush for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080016643 - Wiper blade: The invention starts with a wiper blade (10) comprising a rubber elastic wiper strip (12) in which a resilient rail (18, 20) is inserted into a lateral longitudinal groove on each side of side of said wiper blade as a support element and laterally protrudes from the longitudinal groove, wherein... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080016645 - Automatic roller wringer: An automatic roller wringer for mops and the like, consisting of the incorporation of the main gears inside the casing, one of the gears being provided with a projection for the stop, the main gears being asymmetrically assembled on either side, engaging with the fixed roller, each one of the... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080016646 - Housing assembly for a vacuum: A central vacuum connectable to an interior portion of an inhabitable structure. The central vacuum system includes a housing having a first housing member and a second housing member secured to the first housing member. Together the first housing member and the second housing member at least partially define a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080016647 - Method and apparatus for controlling soot blowing using statistical process control: A statistical process control system employs a consistent soot blowing operation for a heat exchange section of, for example, a fuel burning boiler, collects heat absorption data for the heat exchange section and analyzes the distribution of the heat absorption data as well as various parameters of the heat absorption... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080010759 - Random orbital toothbrush: A toothbrush includes a support member mounted on a first shaft in the head of the toothbrush. A carrier member is mounted on a second shaft to the support member. The support member is eccentrically mounted so that when its first shaft is rotated the carrier member is moved in... Agent: Colgate-palmolive Company

20080010761 - 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 - West Bldg.

20080010760 - Toothbrush with kinetic plate: A powered toothbrush is provided and includes a handle portion having a neck formed at one end and a head coupled to neck. The head includes a first carrier that is coupled to the head and is operatively connected to a first drive for moving the first carrier in a... Agent: Colgate-palmolive Company

20080010762 - Simplified rear squeegee linkage for surface cleaning equipment: A rear squeegee linkage for surface cleaning equipment, which uses a pair of compliant bushings for improved shock absorption. The actuator is mounted with a pair of clevis pins and cotter pins, and may be replaced if needed without screwing or unscrewing any bolts or screws, or resetting any springs.... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20080010765 - Cleaning device for downhole tools: A cleaning device connectable to a downhole tool for use within a well bore, the cleaning device comprising: a base member non-rotatably mountable to the downhole tool; and at least one sleeve member rotatably mountable to and around the base member, the sleeve member having a support member and at... Agent: Epstein & Gerken

20080010766 - 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

20080010767 - Cleaning apparatus: Fluid is removed from the cleaning element of such as a sponge mop or string mop by inflating a bladder or like expansible member which is positioned in an enclosure adjacent the cleaning element, causing the expansible member to expand into contact with the cleaning element, thereby compressing the cleaning... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080010768 - Cleaning implement: A cleaning implement that includes a shaft, a mop disposed on one end of the shaft, a wringer, and a fixed grip. The wringer includes a wringing sleeve and a wringer handle. The wringer is movable over a range of travel between a mopping position and a range of wringing... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080010771 - Method and device for cleaning teeth: The invention is directed to a method and a device for cleaning teeth wherein a variety of cleaning tools are coupled to a common handle section for the individual cleaning of teeth. It relates in particular to a handle section of an electric-dental cleaning device, with a coupling section for... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080010770 - Oral brushing devices and/or methods: An oral hygiene device having two side-by-side toothbrushes connected or connectible to the end of a handle, the one or more toothbrushes providing a desirable fit about the teeth and/or gums and/or providing a desirable brushing action. An oral hygiene device hereof may provide for mechanically providing the brushing movements... Agent: Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.c

20080010772 - Low residue cleaning solution: Cleaning compositions containing C8-C10 alkylpolyglucosides, have low filming and streaking when combined with C2-C4 alcohols and propylene glycol ethers. The low filming and streaking occurs even in the presence of quaternary ammonium biocides.... Agent: The Clorox Company

20080010773 - Mop-head plate comprising mop cover: The invention relates to a mop (1) comprising a mop-head plate (2) and an interchangeable mop cover (3) with a mopping surface (4) that is attached to the mop-head plate (2). According to the invention, the mop cover (3) is equipped on two opposing sides with a respective fixing device... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080010774 - Method and device for cleaning the air intake system of a diesel vehicle: A device and method for cleaning the air-intake system of an EGR-valve-equipped diesel engine includes a dispersion component which mixes air and a liquid cleaning solution before delivering them to the air intake system of a running diesel engine. A main air intake is blocked and the EGR valve is... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080005859 - Brush bristle material and brush: A brush bristle material comprising a linear metallic material containing powders of one or more kinds of lava abrasive grains and/or basalt abrasive grains in a mixed state at a ratio in the range of 1% to 70%, preferably in the range of 1% to 30%. The powders of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.