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Cleansing device with inclusionRelated Patent Categories: Brushing, Scrubbing, And General Cleaning, Implements, Tool Coated Or Impregnated With Material Supply, Including Means For Manual Manipulation Of ImplementCleansing device with inclusion description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070130707, Cleansing device with inclusion. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND [0001] Bathing aids in the form of cloths, wipes, and mitts can be used by persons in a typical bathing process to wash themselves or others. Such bathing aids can include various soaps and other ablutive substances to promote the cleansing process. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0002] Bathing subjects, particularly children, can come to view bathing as a mundane and unpleasant process and can become easily distracted and thus difficult to bathe. This is a cause of struggle for many children and for the people caring for them. In response, various consumer products have included bright colors or characters on the packaging in an effort to make personal hygiene easier on kids and caregivers. In addition, some persons dislike the amount of soap, for example, resident in prior bathing aid products, preferring to themselves add what they view as the appropriate amount of soap. [0003] However, there is still a need for products that make hygiene fun, encourage interaction between parents and kids, and help children learn to care for themselves. In response to these needs, the inventors have acted on the observation that when a child learns through play, everything comes more naturally. As such, a range of products directed towards children makes learning to keep clean a lot more fun and creates a fun and interactive hygienic experience. [0004] The invention disclosed herein solves these problems by providing an improved cleansing device that includes a retaining zone adapted to contain one or more inclusions wherein the retaining zone is functionally and aesthetically integrated into the design of the cleansing device. [0005] More specifically, the present invention provides a cleansing device including a face layer having a face layer perimetric edge; a backing layer having a backing layer perimetric edge, wherein at least a portion of the backing layer perimetric edge is coupled to the face layer perimetric edge such that the face and backing layers define an interior space, the space including a cleansing device opening; a retaining layer coupled to one of the face and backing layers to form a retaining zone having a retaining zone opening; and an inclusion disposed within the retaining zone. [0006] The present invention also provides a cleansing device including a face layer having a face layer perimetric edge; a backing layer having a backing layer perimetric edge, wherein at least a portion of the backing layer perimetric edge is coupled to the face layer perimetric edge such that the face and backing layers define an interior space, the interior space including a cleansing device opening; and an inclusion disposed within the interior space, wherein the inclusion is a complementary item, a recreational item, or a functional item. [0007] The present invention also provides a cleansing device including a face layer having a face layer perimetric edge; a backing layer having a backing layer perimetric edge, wherein at least a portion of the backing layer perimetric edge is coupled to the face layer perimetric edge such that the face and backing layers define an interior space, the space including a cleansing device opening; and an inclusion affixed to one of the face layer and the backing layer. [0008] Objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art in view of the following description and the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0009] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cleansing device of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED ASPECTS [0010] The term "surface" and its plural generally refer herein to the outer or the topmost boundary of an object. Surface may refer to that of skin, hair, clothing, upholstery, countertops, floors, walls, windows, tables, appliances, bathroom fixtures, automobiles, or any other object that may require or accommodate bathing, cleaning, removing something from, or applying something to its surface. [0011] The term "cleansing device" generally refers to a device used to clean and/or treat any surface, including those on humans and other animals. Non-limiting examples of a cleansing device include mitts, wipes, poufs, buffs, washcloths, pads, and sponges. Non-limiting examples of uses of such a cleansing device include child and adult bathing, pet bathing, surface cleaning, application of a substance, removal of a substance, and other similar uses. [0012] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a cleansing device 10 of the present invention. Such a cleansing device 10 allows a consumer to bathe themselves, another human, an animal such as a pet, or to clean or treat any surface. The cleansing device 10 of the present invention will be described in terms of a mitt adapted to be used in bathing a child. For purposes of illustration, and not for purposes of limitation, the cleansing device 10 is described as a mitt. The same cleansing device 10, however, may be described as any other suitable form of a cleansing device 10, including as a wipe. [0013] The cleansing device 10 includes a face layer 15, a backing layer 20, and an inclusion system 60. The face layer 15 may be of any suitable shape, but is preferably generally planar and is further preferably generally rectangular or oblong. The face layer 15 has a perimetric edge 25 extending around the face layer 15. In one aspect of the present invention, the face layer 15 is generally the size of a human hand held flat on a surface. In general, the face layer 15 may be of any suitable size, with the size preferably selected to be suitable for the intended use of the cleansing device 10. [0014] In one aspect of the present invention, the face layer 15 is constructed from a nonwoven web from a polymeric fiber blend including at least one elastomeric polyolefin and at least one nonelastomeric polyolefin. [0015] Preferably, the polymeric blend will include a nonelastomeric olefin resin in the range of from about 10 to about 90 percent by weight, and an elastomeric resin of from about 90 to about 10 percent by weight. The density of the elastomeric polyolefin will be less than about 0.885 g/cm.sup.3 and the density of the nonelastomeric polyolefin will be at least about 0.890 g/cm.sup.3. In one particular aspect, the polymeric blend may include about 50 percent to about 90 percent by weight of a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene and about 50 percent to about 10 percent by weight of a nonelastomeric polyolefin such as a linear low density polyethylene. [0016] The nonwoven web may be prepared using any of the methods known in the prior art, including conventional meltblowing processes. The use of a suitable lower density elastomeric resin blended with a nonelastomeric polyolefin resin of lower viscosity results in a substrate that may be advantageously meltblown into a nonwoven web. The meltblowing process used allows for improved web formation and lessens the quenching and die tip pressure problems associated with the use of only the higher density and more viscous elastomers. [0017] The elastic nonwoven web formed may be used as the elastic sheet(s) in various nonwoven laminate constructions, such as stretch-bonded and neck-bonded laminates. The elastic nonwoven web itself may be formed from various processes, including meltblowing techniques or techniques that form continuous filaments such as spunbond webs or an array of substantially parallel continuous fibers or strands. The elastic nonwoven webs may be laminated to one or more outer layer webs. These outer layer webs may be meltblown, spunbonded, or coformed webs. In addition, such webs may be formed from continuous filaments. In one particular aspect, the meltblown webs formed from the present elastomeric/non-elastomeric polyolefin blend are sandwiched between two outer layers of coformed webs formed from cellulosic and meltblown polypropylene fibers. [0018] When webs having substantially continuous filaments are desired, other modified meltblowing processes may be utilized. For example, when a continuous filament web is desired, the process of forming substantially continuous polymeric filaments disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,385,775 to Wright may be employed. As explained in Wright, which is incorporated herein by reference, a meltblowing apparatus is used wherein the heat for the primary air stream flowing past the meltblowing die tip is either greatly reduced or absent. The continuous filaments are then overlaid with a type of sprayed-on conventional meltblown web material. The resulting fibrous sheet exhibits substantially continuous filaments instead of the primarily randomly scattered filaments typical of most purely meltblown webs. This process can be used to form either the elastic fibrous sheets employing the present polymer blend or for forming the webs to which the elastic nonwoven webs are laminated. [0019] In one example, a meltblown web having the stretchability characteristics of the present composition may be formed into a stretch-bonded laminate base sheet such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,720,415 to Vander Wielen et al., which is incorporated herein by reference. Instead of the base sheet being formed from KRATON-type materials as disclosed in Vander Wielen et al., the base sheet in the present invention is formed from the above-described elastomeric/non-elastomeric polyolefin blend. The polymeric blend may also be formed into an elastic nonwoven web for use in a neck-bonded laminate material; [0020] In addition, the nonwoven webs formed may also be utilized as the inner layer(s) for various wiper products where the outer layers of such products are coformed cellulose and polypropylene. Other applications include various types of laminates such as nonwoven/stretchable web/nonwoven laminates, stretchable web/nonwoven/stretchable web laminates, and nonwoven/stretchable web laminates where the nonwoven portions of the laminates are typical thermoplastics nonwoven spunbond or meltblown webs and the stretchable web portions are made from the present polymeric blend material. Continue reading about Cleansing device with inclusion... 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