Patent Application
20240122415
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The disclosure relates to washing devices and more particularly pertains to a new washing device for scrubbing a user's hands. The device includes an egg shaped shell that is foraminous and a plurality of bristles attached to the shell. The device includes a sponge that is positioned inside the shell and which is soaked with a liquid soap that is released through the shell to facilitate a user to scrub their hands with the shell and bristles.
The prior art relates to washing devices including a surgical scrub brush device that includes radial bristles and a curved gripping surface. The prior art discloses an egg shaped ball being comprised of an elastomeric material for bouncing and catching the egg shaped ball. The prior art discloses a variety of scrubbing devices that each at least includes a planar scrubbing surface and a plurality of bristles disposed on the planar scrubbing surface. The prior art discloses an ornamental design of a decorative egg which includes an upper half being removably attached to a lower half, a channel extending through the decorative egg and a glow stick being insertable into the channel.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shell that is foraminous thereby facilitating a fluid to pass through the shell. The shell is elongated such that the shell has an egg shape thereby facilitating the shell to fit into a palm of a user's hand. A plurality of bristles is each coupled to and extends outwardly from the shell thereby facilitating the plurality of bristles to scrub the user's hand. A sponge is insertable into the shell and the sponge is comprised of a fluid absorbent material thereby facilitating the sponge to absorb a liquid soap. The sponge releases the liquid soap outwardly through the shell to enhance cleaning the user's hands.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The shell 12 has a finger hole 28 extending through the outer wall 20 thereby facilitating a user's finger 30 to extend through the finger hole 28. The finger hole 28 is aligned with the lower apex 24 of the egg shape defined by the shell 12. A plurality of bristles 32 is each coupled to and extends outwardly from the shell 12 thereby facilitating the plurality of bristles 32 to scrub the user's hand 16. The bristles 32 are arranged into a plurality of sets of bristles 34 and the plurality of sets of bristles 34 is arranged into a plurality of rows of bristles 36. Each of the rows of bristles 36 is positioned between a respective pair of rows 22 of the openings 18 in the outer wall 20 of the shell 12. Additionally, each of the rows of bristles 36 extends between the upper apex 26 of the egg shaped defined by the shell 12 and the finger hole 28.
A sponge 38 is insertable into the shell 12 and the sponge 38 is comprised of a fluid absorbent material thereby facilitating the sponge 38 to absorb a liquid soap 40. The sponge 38 releases the liquid soap 40 outwardly through the shell 12 to enhance cleaning the user's hands 16. The sponge 38 is insertable through the finger hole 28 in the outer wall 20 of the shell 12 and the sponge 38 is compressible by the user's finger 30 when the user's finger 30 is extended through the finger hole 28. In this way the liquid soap 40 can be squeezed out of the sponge 38 and urged outwardly through each of the openings 18 in the outer wall 20 of the shell 12. The sponge 38 has an outer surface 42 and the outer surface 42 is continuously arcuate about a center axis of the sponge 38 such that the sponge 38 has a rounded shape. The sponge 38 is elongated along the center axis such that the sponge 38 has an ovoid shape thereby facilitating the outer surface 42 to conform to the outer wall 20 of the shell 12 when the sponge 38 is positioned in the shell 12.
In use, liquid soap 40 is poured through the finger hole 28 to be absorbed by the sponge 38 and water is subsequently poured though the finger hole 28. The user's finger 30 is inserted into the finger hole 28 to compress the sponge 38 and urge soap suds 44 outwardly through the openings 18 in the shell 12. In this way the shell 12 releases the soap suds 44 onto the user's hands 16 as the shell 12 being scrubbed in the user's hands 16. Thus, the bristles 32 scrub the user's hands 16 with the soap suds 44 to thoroughly clean the user's hands 16 of grease, oil, dirt and other compounds that can be difficult to clean from a person's hands.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
