Patent Application
20210237691
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The disclosure relates to scrubbing device and more particularly pertains to a new scrubbing devices for scrubbing insects and debris from a windshield.
The prior art relates to scrubbing devices. The prior art discloses a windshield scrubber that has a notch for receiving a windshield wiper blade. Additionally, the prior art discloses an envelope that can be positioned around a windshield wiper blade for cleaning a windshield. The prior art additionally discloses a windshield wiper blade that has a scrubbing element integrated therein. The prior art discloses an abrasive tube that is positionable around a windshield wiper blade for removing scratches from a windshield. The prior art discloses an envelope that is positionable around a windshield wiper to protect the windshield wiper from sunlight damage.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a windshield wiper is mountable to a wiper arm of a vehicle for wiping across a windshield. A bag is positionable around the windshield wiper to frictionally engage the windshield. Moreover, the bag is comprised of an abrasive material to scrub insects and debris from the windshield. A wiping blade is coupled to the bag to contact the windshield. The wiping blade is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to remove precipitation from the windshield without abrading the windshield.
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 bag 12 has a first end 18, a second end 20 a top side 22 and a bottom side 24, and the bag 12 is elongated along an axis extending through the first end 18 and the second end 20. The top side 22 has a cut 26 extending into an interior of the bag 12 thereby facilitating the cut 26 to receive the windshield wiper 14 and the cut 26 has a bounding edge 28. An elastomeric band 30 is integrated into the bag 12 and the elastomeric band 30 is coextensive with the bounding edge 28 of the cut 26. The elastomeric band 30 biases the cut 26 to close around the windshield wiper 14 for retaining the bag 12 around the windshield wiper 14.
A wiping blade 32 is coupled to the bag 12 such that the wiping blade 32 contacts the windshield 16. The wiping blade 32 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to remove precipitation from the windshield 16 without abrading the windshield 16. The wiping blade 32 is positioned on the bottom side 24 of the bag 12 and the wiping blade 32 extends between the first end 18 and the second end 20 of the bag 12. The wiping blade 32 may comprise a strip of rubber or other similar material that would be commonly found on windshield wipers.
In use, the bag 12 is positioned around the windshield wiper 14 such that the wiping blade 32 is positioned against the windshield 16. In this way the bag 12 scrubs insects and other debris from the windshield 16 and the wiper blade wipes moisture from the windshield 16. In this way the windshield 16 can be scrubbed clean of insects and debris without requiring a person to manually scrub the windshield 16. The bag 12 can be removed from the windshield wiper 14 at any time for cleaning or for replacement.
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.
