DE102011110347A1 - Cleaning brush for the household and commercial kitchen area - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a cleaning brush for the household and the commercial kitchen area, consisting of brush head (1) with bristles and / or cleaning other material material (2) and a brush handle (3) arranged thereon, which is designed as a handle, characterized in that, outside the region of the bristle arrangement, at least one region of the cleaning brush is arranged a device (4) serving for grinding, sharpening and / or polishing blade and / or scissor blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials.

Description

The invention relates to a cleaning device for the household and the commercial kitchen area, comprising a brush head with bristles and / or cleaning other material stock and a brush handle arranged thereon, which is designed as a stem. Such cleaning brushes are used in households and commercial kitchens.

Hand-held brushes, in particular dishwashing or similarly designed hand-held cleaning equipment, which are individually or combined with bristle bundles, sponge or fabric-like trim and therefore can be used for cleaning in the kitchen area, especially kitchen knives, are well known.

A cleaning process of kitchen knives, by using the aforementioned cleaning equipment is preferably optimized by rinsing the knife edge under flowing or non-flowing rinse water.

Furthermore, dishwashing brushes are known which additionally has, at locations other than bristles, at least one shape similar to a scraper. This shape is the gross removal of stubborn dirt.

All hand-held dishwashing brushes according to the prior art are used exclusively for cleaning soiled surfaces.

An equally steady restoration of a sharp cutting edge after wear selbiger by use of the knife, can not be realized alone by cleaning with dishwashing brushes according to the prior art. There are also known dishwashing brushes which are additionally provided with cavities for receiving liquid rinsing agents. This property is intended to serve the better and more targeted dosage and delivery of mostly soapy rinse aids.

There are hand-held dish brushes whose handle is non-destructive connected to the brush head. With regard to kitchen knives, these serve exclusively to restore cleanliness as a hygienic requirement for further safe use of the knife.

Various knife sharpeners are used to restore a sharp cutting edge on the knife blade. For example, for sharpening kitchen knives, industrially produced sharpening stones with abrasive grinding surfaces are used. Also hand-held rod-shaped abrasive metal or ceramic known as a knife sharpener. The handling of these knife sharpeners is rather cumbersome and dangerous for inexperienced users since there is a risk of injury due to the alternating cross-rubbing of the knife-cutting edge and the abrasive body. There are also rod-shaped abrasive metal or ceramic which are mounted cross-type on various types of pedestal devices. The knife edge is pulled in the bottom of the crossed abrasive body along and sharpened.

Furthermore, electrically driven knife sharpening devices are used with one or more rotating grinding wheels. The disadvantage is that such mechanical knife sharpener dirty internally by the resulting abrasion during grinding. Also the material expenditure for electrical energy, as well as the additionally necessary safe and dry stationary placing, are further unfavorable aspects for a constant use.

With the aforementioned sharpening devices, the cutting edge is usually processed only in the dry state. The resulting metallic or ceramic abrasion adheres to the grinding wheel and the knife cutting edge and dirty both.

The sharpening technology adhering to the knife metallic abrasion, which may contain toxic heavy metals by alloy, can, unless again removed by cleaning again, get directly into the next clippings, which is undesirable especially in the food industry and should be avoided. This polluting phenomenon is often observed in food preparation in food shops. There, the kitchen knives are often sharpened before cutting food with hand-held rod-shaped sharpening devices and then, without first removing the abrasion, immediately merged with the clippings.

When sharpening knives on state-of-the-art stationary knife sharpening machines, one hand usually has to touch the knife blade in order to guide the knife when sharpening.

In other prior art knife sharpening methods, the kitchen knife must be manually guided along stationary or moving abrasive bodies. In both approaches there is a risk of tilting or slipping, which carries a risk of injury.

All equipment for sharpening knives according to the prior art are available only by extra time, material and space.

For these aforementioned reasons, it is an object of the invention to provide a technical solution which overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art and which allows the cleaning and sharpening of knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or or to perform other cutting materials with a device without causing a risk of injury. In this case, a cleaning device, in particular a dishwashing brush is to be further developed so that after flush cleaning a kitchen knife or a pair of scissors whose cutting edges can be additionally re-sharpened safer, faster, easier and cheaper. It should be ensured by the fact that the kitchen knives not only hygienically cleaned after use but also again sharply grinded for the next use available, whereby the use for scissor cutting edges should be suitable.

According to the invention the object is achieved by the features of the main claim, wherein the advantageous embodiments are described in the subclaims.

Thereafter, there is a cleaning brush for the household from at least one brush head with bristles and / or the cleaning serving other material trim and a brush handle disposed thereon, which is designed as a stem.

According to the invention, outside the area of the bristle arrangement or the arrangement of another material stock serving for cleaning, at least one area of the cleaning brush is a grinding and / or sharpening knife and / or scissors with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials serving device arranged.

On kitchen knives and scissors with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials and smooth continuous cutting edge generally different demands are made.

Especially the knife edge should always be hygienically clean and sufficiently sharp for regular safe use in the food industry. All kitchen knives and scissors wear off at the cutting edge during ongoing use.

The wear has been mostly eliminated by a dry sharpening process, with a known prior art separate sharpening device. However, this always requires a temporal, material and organizational overhead.

The use of gradually blunted knife edges is an increasing risk of injury and the use of these blunt knife edges can also be the cut material additionally damaged. Kitchen knives are usually only rinsed with water for cleaning and cleaned with a dishwashing brush, sponge or cloth.

With the arrangement of at least one area for grinding and / or sharpening knife and / or scissors blades on the cleaning brush, both operations can be combined in one device.

This area for grinding and / or sharpening knife and / or scissors blades is advantageously designed as formed with abrasive abrasive surface.

However, it is also possible alternatively or simultaneously to form the device for grinding knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials as at least one grinding edge exhibiting abrasive tool and on the cleaning brush outside the range of the bristle arrangement or the arrangement of another cleaning material serving material to arrange.

The additional arrangement of an area equipped with polishing agent on the cleaning brush and / or on the device for grinding knife edges is possible.

As a result, inter alia, after grinding or sharpening the knife edge this obtained by the polishing smoothing increased Schärfgüte and possibly still existing grinding residues are removed. It has proved to be advantageous if the device for grinding blade and / or scissors blades is arranged on the brush head, and there preferably in the edge region and / or in the region of the brush head facing away from the bristle arrangement. But it is also possible to arrange the device for grinding and / or polishing knife and / or scissors blades on the brush handle.

With this solution it is possible to wet and then clean up soiled and worn kitchen knives or scissors with a smooth, continuous cutting edge for the next safe use in just one handy device, and then immediately sharpen them again in order to minimize the work required for doing so.

The invention will be explained in more detail using an exemplary embodiment.

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1 : the schematic view of a cleaning brush

embodiment

According to the 1 the cleaning brush according to the invention initially and as already known from a brush head 1 with a cleaning material serving material 2 , For example, bristles, as a cleaning zone and a brush handle disposed thereon 3 , whereby the cleaning brush is easy to guide by hand. The brush body can consist of polymeric material and the same material or combined with other materials from the brush head into the handle non-destructively releasable or non-destructive releasable transition. The brush body itself can consist of mineral, vegetable, iron-metallic or non-ferrous metal material and the same material or combined with other materials from the brush head into the handle non-destructively releasable or non-destructive dissolve go.

However, according to the invention, the cleaning brush has a plurality of devices outside the cleaning zone 4 for grinding knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials, wherein these are designed differently. Thus, abrasive edges in the form of abrasive surfaces are on the brush head at the upper and lateral edge areas 4.1 arranged.

This allows the knife and / or scissors blade after cleaning by means of the arranged bristles 2 additionally prepared for re-use, in which the knife edge is ground. There is also the possibility of this grinding process at the sharpening edge of the sharpening tool 4.2 perform.

This tool is arranged so that the knife edge is pulled through between the grinding edges, whereby the brush is securely fixed in the hand. As a result, the risk of injury is largely excluded. To reward the knife edge or scissors blade after sharpening later and to meet the existing blade material, but also to safely remove any existing abrasive wear is on the brush handle 3 another area 3.4 equipped with polishes.

Here, the knife cutting edge can be created and pulled over it, with a polishing of the cutting edge takes place. This device 3.4 also finds its application in order to easily remove the rust stains, which are known to occur frequently in cutlery after cleaning in dishwashers.

However, it also shows the possibility that in the field of brushstroke 3 a device in the form of a combination of abrasive surface and surface is arranged with polishing agents. Even so, the knife sheath can be sanded first and then polished to optimally prepare this for further use.

The features of the solutions according to the invention offer various possibilities of equipping an already known cleaning brush with handle with additional functions, such as grinding, sharpening and polishing knife and / or scissors blades.

These functions can be safely and effectively performed already during the cleaning process in a sequence with the cleaning bust.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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brush head

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Material for cleaning

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brush handle

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Apparatus for grinding knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials

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abrasive surface formed with abrasive articles

4.2

Sharpening tool with sharpening edge

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polish

Claims (8)

Cleaning brush for household and commercial kitchens, consisting of brush head ( 1 ) with bristles and / or cleaning other material material ( 2 ) and a brush handle ( 3 ), wherein this is designed as a stem, characterized in that outside the region of the bristle arrangement on at least one region of the cleaning brush a grinding, sharpening and / or polishing knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting material device ( 4 ) is arranged. Cleaning brush for household and commercial kitchen areas according to claim 1, characterized in that the device ( 4 ) for grinding knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials than with abrasive surface formed by suitable abrasives ( 4.1 ) is trained. Cleaning brush for household and commercial kitchen areas according to claim 1, characterized in that the device ( 4 ) for sharpening and sharpening knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials as a sharpening tool having at least one sharpening edge ( 4.2 ) is trained. Cleaning brush for household and commercial kitchen area according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that outside of the area of the bristle arrangement at least a portion of the cleaning brush additionally with a polishing agent ( 3.4 ) equipped area is arranged. Household and commercial kitchen cleaning brush according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the device ( 4.1 ) for sharpening knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials additionally with polishing agents ( 3.4 ) equipped area. Household and commercial kitchen cleaning brush according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the device ( 4 ) for grinding knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials on the brush head ( 1 ) is arranged. Household and commercial kitchen cleaning brush according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the device ( 4 ) for grinding and / or polishing knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials at the edge region and / or in the region of the surface of the brush head ( 1 ) is arranged. Household and commercial kitchen cleaning brush according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the device ( 4 ) for grinding and / or polishing knife and / or scissors blades with cutting edges made of steel and / or ceramic-like and / or other cutting materials on the brush handle ( 3 ) is arranged.

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