Shoe cleaning device with hinged pan
AssigneeGrip Spritz LLC
InventorsTom Rose, Jeffrey Lutz, Matthew Olen, Mike Keller
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Abstract
A shoe cleaning device includes a housing having a scrubbing pad housing portion coupled to a drying pad housing portion. The scrubbing pad housing portion retains a scrubbing pad and the drying pad housing portion retains a drying pad. The scrubbing pad housing portion is parallel to the drying pad housing portion when the shoe cleaning device is in a folded state, and the scrubbing pad housing portion is substantially planar with the drying pad housing portion when the shoe cleaning device is in an unfolded state. In the folded state, a hinge assembly holds the shoe cleaning device in an upright position perpendicular to a floor or other flat surface.
Claims19
A shoe cleaning device comprising:
- a housing having a scrubbing pad housing portion coupled to a drying pad housing portion;
- wherein the scrubbing pad housing portion is configured to retain a scrubbing pad;
- wherein the drying pad housing portion is configured to retain a drying pad;
- wherein the scrubbing pad housing portion is parallel to the drying pad housing portion when the shoe cleaning device is in a folded state;
- wherein the scrubbing pad housing portion is substantially planar with the drying pad housing portion when the shoe cleaning device is in an unfolded state;
- and
- wherein in the folded state, a hinge assembly is configured to hold the shoe cleaning device in an upright position perpendicular to a floor or other flat surface.
A method for storing a shoe cleaning device, comprising:
- folding the shoe cleaning device about a hinge assembly from (a) an unfolded state in which a scrubbing pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device is substantially planar with a drying pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device to (b) a folded state in which the scrubbing pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device is substantially parallel to the drying pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device;
- transporting the folded shoe cleaning device to a storing location;
- and
- placing the folded shoe cleaning device on a surface of the storing location, the folded shoe cleaning device oriented such that the scrubbing pad housing portion and the drying pad housing portion are substantially perpendicular to the surface of the storing location, the folded shoe cleaning device resting on a base formed by the hinge assembly.
A method for deploying a shoe cleaning device, comprising:
- transporting the shoe cleaning device in a folded state in which the shoe cleaning device is oriented such that a scrubbing pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device and a drying pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device are substantially perpendicular to a surface of the storing location and the shoe cleaning device is resting on a base formed by a hinge assembly of the shoe cleaning device from a storing location to a deployment location by grabbing the shoe cleaning device by a handle formed by ends of the scrubbing pad housing portion and the drying pad housing portion;
- unfolding the shoe cleaning device about the hinge assembly from the folded state to an unfolded state in which the scrubbing pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device is substantially planar with the drying pad housing portion of the shoe cleaning device;
- and
- placing the shoe cleaning device in the unfolded state on a surface of the deployment location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.