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US 5,205,011 AGranted
Hair brush cleaning apparatus
OwnerRichard S. Flenerinventor
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Abstract
A housing is arranged with a plurality of adjacent plates pivotally mounted below a top wall of the housing, wherein the plates include inter-digitated finger members that are aligned in a first coplanar relationship relative to one another to receive a hair brush, whereupon projection of the hair brush between the plates effects engagement of the plates with the associated hair brush bristles to effect cleaning of the bristles upon projection of the fingers within the hair brush.
Claims7
A hair brush cleaning apparatus, comprising,
- a housing, the housing including a rear end wall spaced from a front end wall, and
- a first side wall spaced from a second side wall, and a top wall, and
- the rear end wall including a rear end wall recess directed through the rear end wall in communication with the top wall, and the top wall including a top wall opening in communication interiorly of the housing, and with the rear end wall recess, and
- a tray member directed through the housing orthogonally oriented and slidably mounted within the housing, and including a first tray wall and a second tray wall spaced from and parallel relative to one another, with the first tray wall and the second tray wall coplanar with the first side wall and the second side wall respectively when the tray member is mounted within the housing, and
- the housing including a bottom wall, and the tray member including a floor, the tray member floor coplanar with the housing bottom wall, and
- a first plate and a second plate mounted pivotally within the housing, wherein the first plate includes a first hinge, wherein the first hinge is mounted at an intersection of the first side wall and the top wall, and
- the second plate mounted to a second hinge, the second hinge mounted at an intersection of the second side wall and the top wall, and the first plate including first plate teeth, the second plate including second plate teeth, wherein the first plate teeth and the second plate teeth are inter-digitated in a first position when the first plate and the second plate are coplanar relative to one another, and wherein the first plate and second plate are displaced and defined at an oblique angle therebetween when a hair brush member is directed through the top wall opening displacing the first plate and the second plate.
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A hair brush cleaning apparatus, comprising,
- a housing, the housing including a rear end wall spaced from a front end wall, and
- a first side wall spaced from a second side wall, and a top wall, and
- the rear end wall including a rear end wall recess directed through the rear end wall in communication with the top wall, and the top wall including a top wall opening in communication interiorly of the housing, and with the rear end wall recess, and
- a tray member directed through the housing orthogonally oriented and slidably mounted within the housing, and including a first tray wall and a second tray wall spaced from and parallel relative to one another, with the first tray wall and the second tray wall coplanar with the first side wall and the second side wall respectively when the tray member is mounted within the housing, and
- the housing including a bottom wall, and the tray member including a floor, the tray member floor coplanar with the housing bottom wall, and
- the top wall including a top wall first flange spaced from the first side of the top wall opening, and
- a top wall second flange spaced upon a second side of the top wall opening, the top wall first flange including a first skirt extending orthogonally downwardly relative to the top wall first flange positioned exteriorly of and in sliding relationship relative to the housing first side wall, the top wall second flange including a second skirt orthogonally mounted to the top wall second flange slidably positioned exteriorly of the housing second side wall, and
- a first plate positioned within the top wall opening adjacent the top wall first flange, and
- a second plate positioned within the top wall opening adjacent the top wall second flange, the first plate including a first support flange orthogonally mounted downwardly relative to the first plate within the housing, and
- a second support flange fixedly mounted to the second plate extending downwardly within the housing, wherein the first support flange and the second support flange are arranged in a parallel relationship relative to one another, and
- the first plate including first teeth members, the second plate including second teeth members, wherein the first teeth members and the second teeth members are arranged in confronting relationship relative to one another in a coplanar relationship, and
- spring means arranged for biasing the first plate and the second plate in a spaced relationship relative to the housing bottom wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.