Patent Application
20190209390
The following includes information that may be useful in understanding the present disclosure. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art nor material to the presently described or claimed inventions, nor that any publication or document that is specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
The present invention relates generally to the field of cleaning tools and more specifically relates to swabs.
Currently there are a number of solutions for nostril cleansing. Some of these solutions attempt to clean the inside of the nose, but these solutions fail to meet the needs of the market because the heads of the device need to be constantly cleaned and sanitized for later re-use. Other solutions attempt to remove mucous from the nostrils, but these solutions are similarly unable to meet the needs of the market because it leaves other remaining debris in the nose. Still other solutions seek to use disposable material to clean nostrils, but these solutions also fail to meet market needs because it prevents a user from cleaning nostrils multiple times with the same device before having to dispose of the cleaner. Therefore, there currently exists a need in the market for an apparatus that is a re-usable nostril cleanser that is easy to use and hygienic and effectively clears debris from the user's nose.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,532,793 to Paul David Lincoln Wilson relates to a nose comforter and cleaning device. The described nose comforter and cleaning device includes disposable hygienic nostril cleansing tool is described that consists of a dual-purpose head (cotton swab and scraper tip), flexible shaft, and cotton debris cleaner in the tool body.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known cleaning tools art, the present disclosure provides a novel nose cleaning swab system. The general purpose of the present disclosure, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide an auger swab head to clean a bodily orifice when the auger swab head is inserted into the bodily orifice and removed therefrom.
A nose cleaning swab system is disclosed herein. The nose cleaning swab system includes a cleaning swab having a handle and an auger swab head (having a flighting). The auger swab head is positioned on a distal end of the handle. The cleaning swab is manually operated by the user twisting the handle. The auger swab head comprises a swirled profile having a plurality of spaced ribs (flighting). As a user twists the handle, the auger swab head efficiently removes material out of a bodily orifice when the auger swab head is inserted into the bodily orifice such as a nose or ear. The auger swab head is tapered from a tip to a base where the auger swab head is connected to the handle creating a continuous one-piece cleaning swab. The handle is configured to be gripped by a hand of a user and twist the handle and the auger swab head to auger material out of a bodily orifice (manually as rotated) when the auger swab head is inserted into the bodily orifice such as a nose or ear. Nose Swab presented herein is a standard size for the average nostril size, for example an adult. It may be offered in different sizes for infants/children nostrils (possibly in the sizes of small/medium/large swab sizes).
For purposes of summarizing the invention, certain aspects, advantages, and novel features of the invention have been described herein. It is to be understood that not necessarily all such advantages may be achieved in accordance with any one particular embodiment of the invention. Thus, the invention may be embodied or carried out in a manner that achieves or optimizes one advantage or group of advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving other advantages as may be taught or suggested herein. The features of the invention which are believed to be novel are particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings and detailed description.
The figures which accompany the written portion of this specification illustrate embodiments and methods of use for the present disclosure, a nose cleaning swab system, constructed and operative according to the teachings of the present disclosure.
The various embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, wherein like designations denote like elements.
As discussed above, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cleaning tools and more particularly to a nose cleaning swab system as used to improve the cleaning of a user's nose using an auger like cotton swab formed as a functional flighting.
Generally, the invention includes a tip shaped with a slight swirl. The whole nose cleaning swab is made out of dental cotton material or other suitable material. A user may simply insert the device, twist, and clean one's nose or other bodily orifice.
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The embodiments of the invention described herein are exemplary and numerous modifications, variations and rearrangements can be readily envisioned to achieve substantially equivalent results, all of which are intended to be embraced within the spirit and scope of the invention. Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientist, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application.
