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Device for treating surfacesRelated Patent Categories: Brushing, Scrubbing, And General Cleaning, Implements, Tool Coated Or Impregnated With Material Supply, Including Means For Manual Manipulation Of ImplementDevice for treating surfaces description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20050241089, Device for treating surfaces. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/835,882 filed Apr. 30, 2004 and entitled "Device For Treating Surfaces". The entirety of application Ser. No. 10/835,882 is hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Various combinations of articles have been used for the cleaning, buffing and polishing of hard surfaced materials. Cleaning and polishing "kits" may typically comprise three separate components. For example, such kits may comprise a container, such as a bottle or tin, to hold the cleaning composition or polishing composition, an applicator to deliver the composition to the hard surface and to spread the composition on the surface, and a polishing article used to remove a cleaning composition and/or buff a polishing composition into the surface while removing excess polishing composition. As a specific example, a shoe polishing "kit" may consist of a tin or other container of shoe wax or polish, a small brush, a sponge or a first cloth to be used as the polish applicator, and a second larger brush or second cloth to be used for polishing or buffing the waxed shoe surface to a shiny appearance. [0003] However, such cleaning/polishing kits as described above are bulky and consume valuable space, particularly when a user is traveling and the actual need is only for a small touch-up application of cleaner and/or polish to attend to a surface blemish obtained during travel. Also, it is possible for one or more of the various components of such cleaning or polishing kits to become separated and lost from the others, rendering the kit essentially useless. Furthermore, such cleaning/polishing kits are designed for many instances of use, and where the kit is only infrequently used the cleaning and/or polishing composition is subject to spoilage or desiccation, such that only a few uses are obtained before the remainder of the kit must be discarded as waste. Also, with infrequent use, the applicator may become encrusted with dessicated residual amounts of the treating composition and so become stiff and unusable. [0004] Therefore, the need exists for a self-contained, all in one treating device which is capable of holding an impregnated treating composition such as a cleaning and/or polishing composition, or other treating composition, and then delivering the treating composition to a surface to be cleaned and/or polished and/or otherwise treated, and then further capable of being utilized to buff or polish the surface. In addition, it would be highly advantageous for such a treating device to be provided as a single-use item which is constructed in such a manner which is consistent with the costs dictated by the disposable applications for items which are utilized in limited- or single-use disposable products. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0005] Disclosed herein is a convenient and self-contained, all in one treating device capable of holding or containing an impregnated treating composition such as a cleaning and/or polishing composition, and then delivering the treating composition to a surface to be cleaned and/or polished and/or otherwise treated, and then further capable of being utilized to buff or polish the surface. The treating device may also be utilized to deliver a treating composition that is intended to be delivered to or spread upon a surface and then allowed remain upon the surface as a temporary or permanent treatment. The device for treating surfaces includes a hollow member having an open end adapted for the insertion of two or more fingers, the hollow member defined between a first sheet layer and a second sheet layer, the first sheet layer comprising an elastic layer, and the second sheet layer comprising a fibrous nonwoven web layer having an outer surface, wherein the fibrous nonwoven web layer contains on at least a portion of the outer surface thereof a treating composition. [0006] In embodiments, the fibrous nonwoven web layer may further include a substantially treating composition-free portion. The elastic layer may be such as elastic films and elastic fibrous layers. The first sheet layer may be a multilayer laminate material including one or more fibrous web layers bonded to the elastic layer. The second sheet layer may desirably be a laminate material including at least one barrier layer, such as film layers and nonwoven web layers, adjacent to and/or bonded to the fibrous nonwoven web layer. The second sheet layer may further include at least one additional fibrous web layer adjacent the barrier layer on the side of the barrier layer opposite the fibrous nonwoven web layer. [0007] The device for treating surfaces may desirably be provided in a folded configuration wherein the treating composition-containing portion of the fibrous nonwoven web is folded in a face-to-face relationship with itself, or alternatively folded in a face-to-face relationship with the substantially treating composition-free portion of the fibrous nonwoven web. The first sheet layer and the second sheet layer may desirably be bonded to each other along at least one bond line along at least a portion of a line substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, to provide at least partial separation of the hollow member into individual hollow chambers. The fibrous nonwoven web layer of the second sheet layer and/or the second sheet layer may desirably be bonded with a point unbonded bonding pattern. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0008] FIG. 1 illustrates a fibrous nonwoven web layer which has been bonded with a point unbonded bonding pattern. [0009] FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary engraved thermal bonding calendar suitable for providing a point unbonded bonding pattern to a web material. [0010] FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a device for treating surfaces according to an embodiment of the invention. [0011] FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a device for treating surfaces according to another embodiment of the invention. [0012] FIG. 5 schematically illustrates a device for treating surfaces according to still another embodiment of the invention. [0013] FIGS. 6A and 6B schematically illustrate a device for treating surfaces according to still another embodiment of the invention, wherein the device is provided in a folded configuration. DEFINITIONS [0014] As used herein and in the claims, the term "comprising" is inclusive or open-ended and does not exclude additional unrecited elements, compositional components, or method steps. Accordingly, the term "comprising" encompasses the more restrictive terms "consisting essentially of" and "consisting of". [0015] As used herein the term "polymer" generally includes but is not limited to, homopolymers, copolymers, such as for example, block, graft, random and alternating copolymers, terpolymers, etc. and blends and modifications thereof. Furthermore, unless otherwise specifically limited, the term "polymer" shall include all possible geometrical configurations of the material. These configurations include, but are not limited to isotactic, syndiotactic and random symmetries. As used herein the term "thermoplastic" or "thermoplastic polymer" refers to polymers that will soften and flow or melt when heat and/or pressure are applied, the changes being reversible. [0016] As used herein, the terms "elastic" and "elastomeric" are generally used to refer to a material that, upon application of a force, is stretchable to a stretched, biased length which is at least about 133%, or one and a third times, its relaxed, unstretched length, and which upon release of the stretching, biasing force will recover at least about 50% of its elongation. By way of example only, an elastic material having a relaxed, unstretched length of 10 centimeters may be elongated to at least about 13.3 centimeters by the application of a stretching or biasing force. Upon release of the stretching or biasing force the elastic material will recover to a length of not more than 11.65 centimeters. [0017] As used herein the term "fibers" refers to both staple length fibers and substantially continuous filaments, unless otherwise indicated. As used herein the term "substantially continuous" with respect to a filament or fiber means a filament or fiber having a length much greater than its diameter, for example having a length to diameter ratio in excess of about 15,000 to 1, and desirably in excess of 50,000 to 1. [0018] As used herein the term "monocomponent" filament refers to a filament formed from one or more extruders using only one polymer. This is not meant to exclude filaments formed from one polymer to which small amounts of additives have been added for color, anti-static properties, lubrication, hydrophilicity, etc. [0019] As used herein the term "multicomponent filaments" refers to filaments that have been formed from at least two component polymers, or the same polymer with different properties or additives, extruded from separate extruders but spun together to form one filament. Multicomponent filaments are also sometimes referred to as conjugate filaments or bicomponent filaments, although more than two components may be used. The polymers are arranged in substantially constantly positioned distinct zones across the cross-section of the multicomponent filaments and extend continuously along the length of the multicomponent filaments. The configuration of such a multicomponent filament may be, for example, a concentric or eccentric sheath/core arrangement wherein one polymer is surrounded by another, or may be a side by side arrangement, an "islands-in-the-sea" arrangement, or arranged as pie-wedge shapes or as stripes on a round, oval or rectangular cross-section filament, or other configurations. Multicomponent filaments are taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,108,820 to Kaneko et al. and U.S. Pat. No. 5,336,552 to Strack et al. Conjugate fibers are also taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,382,400 to Pike et al. and may be used to produced crimp in the fibers by using the differential rates of expansion and contraction of the two (or more) polymers. For two component filaments, the polymers may be present in ratios of 75/25, 50/50, 25/75 or any other desired ratios. In addition, any given component of a multicomponent filament may desirably comprise two or more polymers as a multiconstituent blend component. [0020] As used herein the terms "biconstituent filament" or "multiconstituent filament" refer to a filament formed from at least two polymers, or the same polymer with different properties or additives, extruded from the same extruder as a blend. Multiconstituent filaments do not have the polymer components arranged in substantially constantly positioned distinct zones across the cross-section of the multicomponent filaments; the polymer components may form fibrils or protofibrils that start and end at random. Continue reading about Device for treating surfaces... Full patent description for Device for treating surfaces Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Device for treating surfaces patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. 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