Personal clothes washboard device
OwnerGeorge J. Herbstinventor
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This is a washboard device intended for permanent attachment to an inner wall of a washbowl or washbasin for use in washing personal and small articles of clothing. It includes a sheet of semi-rigid material having a peelable protected adhesive back coating and a front washboard surface. The washboard surface may be corrugated with alternate rounded ridges and intervening furrows in the preferred form. Alternately, it may include any type surface having a plurality of hills and valleys, in any regular or irregular pattern or spaced dots of material on a flat surface, etc. It is made of a suitable semi-rigid material in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and can be made to conform to any size or shape basin wall, the material being a suitable plastic such as polyurethane, polyvinyl, semi-hard rubber. The edge of the sheet is preferably feathered and may be readily installed in operative position by the average person.
A readily, permanently attachable washboard surface sheet for a wall of a washbasin, washtub, and the like, comprising a somewhat flexible sheet (10), means for attaching the backwall of said sheet (10) to the basin or tub wall, said sheet having a washboard surface (12) over which clothing items may be rubbed in a cleansing action, said washboard surface comprising a plurality of parallel, spaced apart ridges (14) and furrows (16), said ridges having rounded peaks (20) and said furrows having rounded valleys (22), a basin wall permanently self-attaching high-tack adhesive material on said backwall of said washboard sheet (10), and a readily peelable protective cover sheet (28) on said high-tack adhesive material (26), said washboard sheet (10) being composed of semi-rigid high density plastic material, the ends of said ridges and furrows being sloped (30) to a feathered short side sheet edge (32), said sheet having a feathered long thin edge (24) terminating substantially in the plane of said backwall, said long thin edge being parallel to said ridges and and furrows to attach to the basin or tubwall, whereby the item of clothing being cleansed thereover will slide smoothly over said long thin feathered edge onto said washboard surface and over said ridges and furrows.
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