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US 4,903,365 AGranted
Resilient scrub brush
OwnerJack W. Kaufmaninventor
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Abstract
An article such as a flat scrub brush has a major axis and a minor axis with a concave recess along the minor axis and at each end thereof, which enables the brush to be bent around this axis when used, and to be resiliently returned to its flat shape when not being used.
Claims9
An article, comprising flexible scrub brush having a flat shape when not in use and having a major axis, end walls, side walls, and a minor axis intersecting the side walls of the article,
- a concave, integrally formed recess in each said ride wall intersection of said minor axis and the corresponding side wall, so that the brush, when used, bends around the minor axis to form two longitudinal halves to be resiliently returned to its flat shape when not being used, said side walls each comprising main side wall portions and a web portion connecting the main side wall portions,
- wherein each said recess is defined by one said web portion and each web portion comprises a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface inclined with respect to the main side wall portions and to each other, with each said inclined surface being polygonal and planar in shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.