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US 7,761,950 B2Granted
Water-disintegrable cleaning tool
AssigneeUnicharm Corporation
InventorsTakayoshi Konishi, Kazuya Okada
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Abstract
A cleaning tool is formed by bundling a plurality of water-disintegrable cords to have a holding part in which the cords are joined to one another with a holding material wound therearound and bonded thereto by a water-soluble adhesive, and a cleaning part in which the cords are positioned independently from one another. Each cord is formed by twisting a water-disintegrable sheet such as a fiber entangled nonwoven fabric of pulp fibers, rayon fibers, and the like entangled by water-jet processing.
Claims10
A water-disintegrable cleaning tool, comprising:
- a cleaning part formed of a plurality of cords each formed by twisting a strip of a water-disintegrable sheet;
- and
- a holding part which holds the cleaning part, the holding part comprising a holding material wound around an outer peripheral surface of a bundle formed by base parts of the plurality of cords,
- wherein:
- the plurality of cords are fixed to one another and to the holding material by a water-soluble adhesive in the holding part and positioned independently from one another in the cleaning part, and
- each of the cords has a free end positioned in the cleaning part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.