# US 10,499,791 B2 · Drinking straws cleaning system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,499,791 B2 - Document ID: US10499791B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/485,560 - Filed: 2017-04-12 - Published: 2017-08-03 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2016-08-18 - Applicants: Jacob Seltz - Inventors: Jacob Seltz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10499791B2 ## CPC - A47L 17/00: Apparatus or implements used in manual washing or cleaning of crockery, table-ware, cooking-ware or the like (foam-making devices A47K5/14) - A46B 3/18: the bristles being fixed on or between belts or wires - A46B 5/00: Brush bodies; Handles integral with brushware - B08B 9/0436: {provided with mechanical cleaning tools, e.g. scrapers, with or without additional fluid jets (B08B9/045, B08B9/047 take precedence)} - A46B 2200/3013: Brushes for cleaning the inside or the outside of tubes - A47L: DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING (brushes A46B; cleaning quantities of bottles or of other hollow articles of one kind B08B9/00; laundry D06F); SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL (cleaning in general B08) - A46B: BRUSHES (handles not integral with brushware B25G) - B08B: CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL ## Abstract Disclosed is a drinking straws cleaning system. Embodiments of the present invention discloses a drinking straws cleaning system that includes a flexible tubular elongated shaft including a first end, a second end, a body portion disposed in between the first end and the second end, a holding member configured at the second end, and one or more flaps configured proximal to the holding member at the second end, wherein the flexible tubular elongated shaft is passed through a hollow cavity of a straw through a top opening until the first end of the flexible tubular elongated shaft emerges out of a bottom opening of the straw, and then pulled therethrough to fully emerge out of the hollow cavity of the straw to clean the straw. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A drinking straws cleaning system, comprising: a flexible tubular elongated shaft including a first end, a second end, a body portion disposed in between said first end and said second end, a spherical shaped holding member configured at said second end, and one or more drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps molded onto and radially extending from the body portion proximal to said holding member at the second end, said one or more flaps embody a sticky drink cleaning solution, said sticky drink cleaning solution assisting said drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps in removing sticky drink materials from said interior surface of a used drinking straw; wherein said flexible tubular elongated shaft is passed through a hollow cavity of said drinking straw through a top opening until said first end of said flexible tubular elongated shaft emerges out of a bottom opening of said drinking straw, and then pulled therethrough to fully emerge out of said hollow cavity of said drinking straw to clean interior walls of the hollow cavity of said drinking straw. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The drinking straws cleaning system of claim 1, wherein said body portion of said flexible tubular elongated shaft comprising a uniform diameter throughout its length. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The drinking straws cleaning system of claim 1, wherein said flexible tubular elongated shaft is made of silicone material. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The drinking straws cleaning system of claim 1, wherein said one or more flaps being collapsible. ### Claim 5 A drinking straws cleaning system, comprising: a flexible tubular elongated shaft including a first end, a second end, a body portion disposed in between said first end and said second end, a spherical shaped holding member configured at said second end, and one or more drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps molded onto and radially extending from the body portion proximal to said holding member at the second end, said one or more drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps being collapsible and embody a sticky drink cleaning solution, said sticky drink cleaning solution assisting said drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps in removing sticky drink materials from said interior surface of said a drinking straw; wherein said flexible tubular elongated shaft is passed through a hollow cavity of said drinking straw through a top opening until said first end of said flexible tubular elongated shaft emerges out of a bottom opening of said drinking straw, and then pulled therethrough to fully emerge out of said hollow cavity of said drinking straw to clean interior walls of the hollow cavity of said drinking straw. ### Claim 6 A drinking straws cleaning system comprising: a used plastic drinking straw having an interior wall surface containing a sticky material left over from a sticky drink; a flexible tubular elongated shaft including a first end, a second end, a body portion disposed in between said first end and said second end, a spherical shaped holding member configured at said second end, and one or more drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps molded onto and radially extending from the body portion proximal to said holding member at the second end, said one or more flaps embody a sticky drink cleaning solution, said sticky drink cleaning solution assisting said drinking straw interior wall surface engaging flaps in removing said sticky material from said interior wall surface of said used drinking straw; said flexible tubular elongated shaft passing through a hollow cavity of said used drinking straw through a top opening until said first end of said flexible tubular elongated shaft emerges out of a bottom opening of said drinking straw, and then pulled therethrough to fully emerge out of said hollow cavity of said drinking straw to clean interior walls of the hollow cavity of said drinking straw.