All-in-one squeezable scrubbing tool

US10136789B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• THE CLOROX COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Hagar Zohar · Pleasanton, US
• Kerry D. Azelton · Pleasanton, US
• German R. Gonzalez · Pleasanton, US
• John Jamieson · Walnut Creek, US
• Benjamin Ma · San Ramon, US
• Jennifer Ann Murphy · Nashville, US
• George S. Sieverding · Pleasanton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 12, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D17/049
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An all-in-one cleaning device, e.g., such as may be used in cleaning the inside of a shower. The device may provide the ability to dispense a cleaning composition carried within the device itself, and scrub the cleaning composition onto or into the surfaces to be cleaned (e.g., shower walls, floors, corners, mirrors, etc.). The device may include a squeezable container housing holding the cleaning composition in a reservoir defined therein, with a dispensing valve configured to dispense the cleaning composition from the reservoir, through the valve when a user squeezes the container housing. A sled may be provided, e.g., snap-fit to a bottom wall of the container housing, with a substrate configured as a scrubbing pad attached to the bottom of the sled.