US 8,540,117 B2Granted

Compartmentalized portable container and body wash wipes

OwnerConnie M Andrews, Timothy B Andrewsinventors

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Abstract

The present invention is a compartmentalized portable container and body wash wipes, which allows the user to substitute the traditional showering or bathing cycle with a series of body wipes. These body wipes are carried in a slender container, which allows the present invention to be a very portable device. The series of wipes include a number of pre-wash wipes, soap wipes, moisturizing wipes, and deodorizing wipes. Once the user finishes the series of wipes, the user throws the wipes away. The container stores and separate each kind of wipe in their own compartment. The dispensing mechanisms on the container allows the user to take only one of each kind of wipe at a time. The present invention can also be cleaned out with warm soapy water or alcohol once the supply of body wipes has been exhausted, which provides a replacement pack of body wipes with a clean container.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A compartmentalized portable container and body wash wipes comprises,

a plurality of wash cloths;
a bottom container;
a top lid;
said plurality of wash cloths comprises a number of pre-wash cloths, a number of soap cloths, a number of moisturizing cloths, and a number of deodorizing cloths;
said bottom container comprises a plurality of dividers, a plurality of compartments, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral walls, and a transparent wall;
said top lid comprises a plurality of dispensing mechanisms and a separation tab;
said plurality of compartments comprises a pre-wash cloth compartment, a soap cloth compartment, a moisturizing cloth compartment, and a deodorizing cloth compartment;
said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a pre-wash cloth dispensing mechanism, a soap cloth dispensing mechanism, a moisturizing cloth dispensing mechanism, and a deodorizing cloth mechanism;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms being correspondingly positioned above each of said plurality of compartments;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a thumb lip, a thumb tab, a thumb tab indentation, a thumb flap connection, a slit, a flap, a flap cavity, a cloth hole, an opened stop, and a closed stop;
said flap being positioned parallel to said thumb tab;
said thumb tab being connected to said flap by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb lip being centrally positioned and perpendicularly connected to said thumb tab opposite to said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab indentation being positioned on said top lid;
said flap cavity being positioned below thumb tab indentation;
said slit being positioned in between said thumb tab indentation and said flap cavity;
said flap cavity and said slit being located within said top lid;
said flap being housed by said flap cavity;
said slit being traversed by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab being surrounded by said thumb tab indentation;
said opened stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation;
said closed stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation opposite said opened stop;
and
said cloth hole being positioned on said thumb tab indentation adjacent to said opened stop.

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A compartmentalized portable container and body wash wipes comprises,

a plurality of wash cloths;
a bottom container;
a top lid;
said plurality of wash cloths comprises a number of pre-wash cloths, a number of soap cloths, a number of moisturizing cloths, and a number of deodorizing cloths;
said bottom container comprises a plurality of dividers, a plurality of compartments, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral walls, and a transparent wall;
said top lid comprises a plurality of dispensing mechanisms and a separation tab;
said plurality of compartments comprises a pre-wash cloth compartment, a soap cloth compartment, a moisturizing cloth compartment, and a deodorizing cloth compartment;
said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a pre-wash cloth dispensing mechanism, a soap cloth dispensing mechanism, a moisturizing cloth dispensing mechanism, and a deodorizing cloth compartment;
said top lid being situated atop said bottom container;
said plurality of wash cloths being housed by said top lid and said bottom container;
said plurality of lateral walls and said transparent wall being positioned perpendicularly to said bottom surface;
said plurality of lateral walls and said transparent wall being connected perpendicularly to said bottom surface;
said plurality of lateral walls, said transparent wall, and said bottom surface being compartmentalized by said plurality of dividers;
said plurality of compartments being shaped by said plurality of lateral walls, said transparent wall, said bottom surface, and said plurality of dividers;
said transparent wall being positioned adjacent to each of said plurality of compartments;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms being correspondingly positioned above each of said plurality of compartments;
and
said pre-wash cloth dispensing mechanism being located above said pre-wash cloth compartment;
said soap cloth dispensing mechanism being located above said soap cloth compartment;
said moisturizing cloth dispensing mechanism being located above said moisturizing cloth compartment;
and
said deodorizing cloth dispensing mechanism being located above said deodorizing cloth compartment;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a thumb lip, a thumb tab, a thumb tab indentation, a thumb flap connection, a slit, a flap, a flap cavity, a cloth hole, an opened stop, and a closed stop;
said flap being positioned parallel to said thumb tab;
said thumb tab being connected to said flap by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb lip being centrally positioned and perpendicularly connected to said thumb tab opposite to said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab indentation being positioned on said top lid;
said flap cavity being positioned below thumb tab indentation;
said slit being positioned in between said thumb tab indentation and said flap cavity;
said flap cavity and said slit being located within said top lid;
said flap being housed by said flap cavity;
said slit being traversed by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab being surrounded by said thumb tab indentation;
said opened stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation;
said closed stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation opposite said opened stop;
and
said cloth hole being positioned on said thumb tab indentation adjacent to said opened stop.

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A compartmentalized portable container and body wash wipes comprises,

a plurality of wash cloths;
a bottom container;
a top lid;
said plurality of wash cloths comprises a number of pre-wash cloths, a number of soap cloths, a number of moisturizing cloths, and a number of deodorizing cloths;
said bottom container comprises a plurality of dividers, a plurality of compartments, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral walls, and a transparent wall;
said top lid comprises a plurality of dispensing mechanisms and a separation tab;
said plurality of compartments comprises a pre-wash cloth compartment, a soap cloth compartment, a moisturizing cloth compartment, and a deodorizing cloth compartment;
said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a pre-wash cloth dispensing mechanism, a soap cloth dispensing mechanism, a moisturizing cloth dispensing mechanism, and a deodorizing cloth compartment;
said plurality of pre-wash cloth being saturated in a pre-wash solution, wherein said pre-wash solution contains water and cetyl alcohol;
said plurality of soap cloths being saturated in a soap solution, wherein said soap solution contains water, triethanolamine lauryl sulfate, cocamidopropyl betaine, and propylene glycol;
said plurality of moisturizing cloths being saturated in a moisturizing solution, wherein said moisturizing solution contains citric acid, stearic acid, cocoa butter, glycol stearate, shea butter, collagen, vitamin E, vitamin C, and cetyl alcohol;
said plurality of deodorizing cloths being saturated in a deodorizing solution, wherein said deodorizing solution contains dipropylene glycol, water, propylene glycol, sodium stearate, fragrance, ppg-3 myristyl ether, tetrasodium EDTA, and colors;
wherein the ingredients for the colors is selected from the group consisting of violet 2 and green 6;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms being correspondingly positioned above each of said plurality of compartments;
each of said plurality of dispensing mechanisms comprises a thumb lip, a thumb tab, a thumb tab indentation, a thumb flap connection, a slit, a flap, a flap cavity, a cloth hole, an opened stop, and a closed stop;
said flap being positioned parallel to said thumb tab;
said thumb tab being connected to said flap by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb lip being centrally positioned and perpendicularly connected to said thumb tab opposite to said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab indentation being positioned on said top lid;
said flap cavity being positioned below thumb tab indentation;
said slit being positioned in between said thumb tab indentation and said flap cavity;
said flap cavity and said slit being located within said top lid;
said flap being housed by said flap cavity;
said slit being traversed by said thumb flap connection;
said thumb tab being surrounded by said thumb tab indentation;
said opened stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation;
said closed stop being positioned adjacent to said thumb tab indentation opposite said opened stop;
and
said cloth hole being positioned on said thumb tab indentation adjacent to said opened stop.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/156,115Filed 8 Jun 2011 · us provisional application
Priority: 13 Oct 2010
Published: US 2012/0091164 A119 Apr 2012
Granted: 24 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B65D 83/0805
For dispensing thin flat articles in succession: through an aperture in a wall
A47K 10/421
Dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked: dispensing from the top of the dispenser
B65D
Containers for storage or transport of articles or materials
A47K
Sanitary equipment

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Application61/392,659Us provisional application · filed 13 Oct 2010
US 2012/0091164 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Apr 2012
US 8,540,117 B2This patent

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