US 4,050,825 AGranted

Cake of soap, especially for washing hands

OwnerWalter Steininventor

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Abstract

An article for cleansing including a cake of soap defined in part by a top surface and opposite end surfaces with a recess opening upwardly through the top surface and endwise through the end surfaces with the opening being defined by a bottom surface and opposing spaced inner peripheral surfaces, a plate in the recess completely covering the bottom surface and having means for preventing water from erroding the peripheral surfaces thereby precluding disintegration of the cake of soap, the errosion preventing means being defined by an upper surface of the plate opening concavely outwardly in a direction toward the top surface and/or by a pair of flanges carried by the plate directed from the plate upper surface toward the top surface with each flange being contiguous an associated one of the cake soap peripheral surfaces.

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Dependent claims

An article for cleansing comprising a cake of soap, said cake of soap being defined in part by a top surface and opposite end surfaces, a recess in said cake of soap opening upwardly through said top surface and endwise through said end surfaces, said opening being defined by a bottom surface and opposing spaced inner peripheral surfaces between said top and bottom surfaces and extending between said end surfaces, an imperforate plate in said recess completely covering said bottom surface, means securing said plate to said cake of soap, bristle means carried by said plate and being at least partially disposed within said opening, said plate having means for preventing water from erroding said peripheral surfaces thereby precluding disintegration of said cake of soap, and said errosion preventing means being defined by an upper surface of said plate opening concavely outwardly in a direction toward said top surface.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.