Body vacuum
OwnerDe Lamar Gibbonsinventor
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Abstract
The invention requires a brush having a passage through which water forced under pressure is supplied to the brush area and having a passage attached to a vacuum. The water supply passage and the passage under vacuum must be so aligned that the cleaning solution is removed from the area to be cleaned along with debris without allowing the contaminated solution to collect on the surface of the skin. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, no moving parts are required for the brush. The brush may be made of any soft material that is easily cleaned. However, a brush made of soft plastic bristles such as those used for surgical scrub brushes is preferred. The invention does not require formation of a foam as a cleansing agent.
Claims10
A device adapted for cleaning the skin and its appendages comprising a brush portion having soft bristles of 0.3 to 1.5 inches in length that do not mat, said brush portion having two conduits attached thereto wherein the first conduit is equipped at the end distal to said brush with a connector adapted for connection to a solution supply source and at the end of said first conduit proximal to said brush portion delivers said solution directly into said brush portion at or immediately above said bristles, and wherein the second conduit leads from said brush, said second conduit leading to a negative pressure source, said second conduit having a first opening into said brush portion near the bristles of said brush portion, said second conduit having at the end distal from said brush portion a negative pressure generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.