US 6,000,085 AGranted

Compact disc cleaner

AssigneeTaiwan Bor Ying Corporation

InventorJin-Sheng Weng

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a compact disc cleaner which includes a box base having a cover and a seat, a turntable that is rotated on the cover, a cleaning device moveably attached at the near end of the turntable that includes a knob and a wheel body on the exterior and interior of the turntable, a cleaning element attached underneath the wheel body and gear teeth on the external wall of the wheel body that engage with the gear teeth on the internal wall of the box base. The cover is pivoted, at one end, with the seat in which the compact disc is held. When the user rotates the knob of the cleaning device, the turntable will revolve as the same time and the internal gear of the box base will bring the wheel body on the cleaning device to rotate within the radius of the compact disc so to effectively clean the compact disc with the cleaning element underneath the wheel body.

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Dependent claims

A compact disc cleaner comprising:

a box base with a cover and a seat, said box base includes a hinge means at one end so that said box base is pivoted for opening and closing, said box base has internal gear teeth and said seat includes means to hold a compact disc inside;
a turntable is rotatable secured to said cover, said turntable includes therein a hole;
and
a cleaning device is rotatably secured in said hole with a knob on an exterior of said turntable and a wheel body on an interior of said turntable, a cleaning element is attached underneath said wheel body, said wheel body has an external gear that meshes with said internal gear of said box base;
such that
when a user rotates said knob of said cleaning device, said turntable revolves around a center of said seat, and said external gear of said wheel body of said cleaning device engages said internal gear of said box base so that said wheel body rotates and said cleaning element cleans said compact disc in a radial direction.

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