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US 6,146,398 AGranted
Antiseptic tool for body pierced openings
OwnerRichard A. Satterfieldinventor
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Abstract
A hand manipulated tool to cleanse and apply medication to a pierced body hole, such as an earlobe. The tool comprises an elongated member sized to slidably engage the pierced body hole. The tool is further characterized by first and second sections, where the first section is a cleansing section, and the second section has a medication absorbent layer to effect treatment of the pierced body hole.
Claims4
A hand held tool for cleansing and medicating a body pierced hole, where such hole may be subject to infection and debris buildup, said tool comprising:
- a thin, semi-rigid, elongated core having first, and second segments joined together at an intermediate position along said core, said first segment containing a plurality of flexible, fibrous arms extending therefrom to provide cleansing to said body pierced hole, and said second segment containing a thin, encircling layer of absorbent material thereabout for applying medication to said cleansed body pierced hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.