US 4,864,677 AGranted

Keyboard cleaner

AssigneeEHL Development Inc.

InventorEdward H. Levy

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Abstract

This invention relates to a keyboard cleaning device. More particularly, this invention relates to a device for cleaning upper and/or lateral surfaces of keyboard buttons or keys. In a first embodiment of the present invention, a key cleaner is comprised of a head structure having at least one convex cleaning substructure contoured to the top surface of a key of a data entry keyboard, a handle and means for attaching the handle to the head structure. Pursuant to a second embodiment of the present invention, the key cleaner is comprised of a head structure having at least one wedge-shaped cleaning substructure which is contoured to fit between the keys of a data entry keyboard and a handle attached to the head structure. Other embodiments are also described.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A device for cleaning at least two different surfaces of the keys of a data-entry type keyboard, comprising:

a head structure having at least two different cleaning substructures, each cleaning substructure having a cleaning surface conforming to a substantial portion of a top or a lateral surface of a key of said keyboard, a first of said cleaning substructures having a convex surface conforming to at least a substantial portion of a top concave surface of said key and a second of said cleaning substructures having a wedge-shaped surface conforming to at least a substantial portion of the lateral surface of said key, said first cleaning substructure being disposed adjacent to said second cleaning substructure on one side of said head structure;
and
a gripping means connected to said head structure for facilitating manipulation of the cleaning device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/173,270Filed 25 Mar 1988
Granted: 12 Sep 1989
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A47L 13/26
Scrubbing; Scouring; Cleaning; Polishing: other cleaning devices with liquid supply arrangements
A47L 25/00
Domestic cleaning devices not provided for in other groups of this subclass
B08B 1/10
Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools: characterised by the type of cleaning tool
B08B 1/12
Characterised by the type of cleaning tool: brushes

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