EP2046179B1 - Toilettenbürste - Google Patents

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EP2046179B1
EP2046179B1 EP07786887.5A EP07786887A EP2046179B1 EP 2046179 B1 EP2046179 B1 EP 2046179B1 EP 07786887 A EP07786887 A EP 07786887A EP 2046179 B1 EP2046179 B1 EP 2046179B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K11/00—Closets without flushing; Urinals without flushing; Chamber pots; Chairs with toilet conveniences or specially adapted for use with toilets
    • A47K11/10—Hand tools for cleaning the toilet bowl, seat or cover, e.g. toilet brushes

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  • the invention relates to a toilet brush for in particular curved surfaces.
  • Toilet brushes are used to clean today common toilet bowls, which are usually made of porcelain and have a U-shaped, downwardly open, inner edge, in which the water is flushed and in which also can settle dirt.
  • the toilet brush itself so especially their cleaning head, yet be designed so that the cleaning process in the cleaning head settling solid contaminants are also easily removable, preferably only by means of the flow of water toilet flushing inside the toilet bowl ,
  • the most common form consists of a cleaning head which is rotationally symmetrical to the longitudinal axis of the stem, and which consists of bristles, usually bundles of bristles, which are received by the body of the cleaning head, which is a kind of extension in the axial direction of the stem.
  • both the bristles and the stem and the body of the cleaning head made of plastic.
  • the disadvantage of this design is that the bristles are relatively thin, usually less than 1 mm, and clean only a very narrow track when moving along with their free ends over a surface to be cleaned.
  • the ends of the individual bristles are relatively far apart, namely several millimeters, which is necessary in order not to complicate a subsequent cleaning of the bristles themselves too much, because the closer the bristles are together, the harder are therebetween deposited contaminants remove. This is particularly evident when the bristles are arranged in tufts, the more difficult they are to remove impurities from the interstices between the bristles, the closer they have penetrated the attachment point of the tuft to the base, and the closer the bristles are to one another.
  • the bristles In order to ensure a sufficient cleaning effect on the bottom and side surfaces of the toilet bowl, the bristles would have to have sufficient rigidity. However, this in turn prevents bending and penetration of the bristles under the cranked edge, and if so, then cleaning takes place only on the outside of the cranked edge, but not on the inside.
  • toilet brushes are known in which the cleaning head is a main body in the form of a small, stable plate, from which the bristles or bristle bundles substantially parallel running and only slightly diverging mostly in only one direction, approximately perpendicular to the main plane of the body or in both directions, which are perpendicular to this, protrude.
  • the plate plane of the body is attached bent on the stem.
  • a cleaning of the visible surfaces of the toilet can be done easily, but a cleaning under the bent edge is thus completely impossible.
  • bristle-free cleaning heads for example rotationally symmetrical bodies or irregularly shaped bodies with punctiform nubs, line-shaped projections, etc. on the surface, which can be differently arranged and shaped and only very slightly, usually 1-2 mm, projecting beyond the remaining surface.
  • a toilet brush known which has a greater extent in the main plane of extension than transversely thereto and is plate-shaped and is more flexible in three edge regions in the direction transverse to the plate plane, as in the region of the attachment point of the stem.
  • a bristle design for a particular broom in which the individual bristles have an axially extending groove-like depression, which points in the sweeping direction.
  • the bristles are made in one piece together with a bristle base.
  • the different flexibility of its edge regions relative to the central region has the advantage that on the one hand by pressing the relatively stiff central region on the bottom surface of the toilet bowl, a relatively high pressure can be applied, and on the other hand, the flexible Rims of the flat body can be easily inserted under the bent edge of the toilet bowl to effect a cleaning there.
  • a plurality of bristles are arranged as cleaning elements, which can protrude transversely from the surface of the base body, and can protrude at the edge in the main plane of the base body.
  • Bristles with different cross-sectional shapes can be used, in particular in their cross-section hollow or solid cleaning elements.
  • the orientation of the cross section of such bristles can be selected in each case in the same direction, or viewed from the attachment point of the stem on the base body from each pointing radially outward, the latter simplifies a non-directional use of the brush.
  • the bristles integrally formed with the base body of a plastic, such as a rubber-like plastic, and the transition from the body to the bristles are rounded with a radius of curvature of at least 1 mm, more preferably at least 2 mm, in particular at least 3 mm, thereby preventing the deposition of impurities, which is easier in edges.
  • a plastic such as a rubber-like plastic
  • the bristles, on the body at a minimum distance of 3 mm or more, better 4 mm or 5 mm, are arranged, and accordingly individually and not summarized in tufts, to also impede the deposition of impurities.
  • the total thickness of the cleaning head can be - measured at least in some of its edge areas - including the extension of the cleaning elements mounted on it slightly more than the free width in the U-shaped crank of the toilet bowl, so that when you go in with the edges of the brush under the cranked edge forcibly cleaning takes place both on the inside and on the outside of the crank.
  • the individual edge regions of the base body which may be heart-shaped, kidney-shaped or freely designed in plan view, but preferably convex outward bulges, may be flexibly flexible.
  • one and the same edge region can be flexibly flexible in the two transverse directions to the main plane of the main body, which can easily be achieved, for example, by stiffening ribs present on one side of the main body.
  • the bristles on the two sides of the body have a different rigidity and / or different cross-sectional contours and / or different cross-sectional dimensions to make the cleaning effect of the two sides of the body different, which is particularly advantageous if the stem from the body in its main extension direction protrudes, so that the main body can also be used on the bottom surface of the toilet bowl with both sides.
  • the attachment point of the stem may be arranged offset to the base instead of the edge of the body to the center, and even protrude from the main plane of the main body from perpendicular.
  • the main body of the cleaning head is hollow, which can be used for different purposes.
  • the wall of the main body outlet openings in particular in valve form, which opens only when pressure on the outer surface, be arranged to deploy a stored in the cavity disinfectant or cleaning agent.
  • the cavity in the body with a cavity in the stem in. Connection, and the stem is designed as a pump, for example by a piston is sealed in its tubular cylinder displaced.
  • the brush has a locking device in order to maintain the increased pressure in the main body of the cleaning head, so for example to secure the pump piston in a forward pushed position.
  • the stem can be adjustable in its angular position to the base body, preferably even designed from one to the other side of the body folded down.
  • FIG. 1b shows the entire cleaning brush in the side view, consisting of a stem 1 and a cleaning head 2, which is attached to the lower, free end of the stem 1.
  • the stem 1 is in the side view double S-shaped cranked by an angle of approximately 45 °, and consists of a preferably hollow profile, for example made of plastic or other easy-to-clean material, which leaves no abrasion on porcelain.
  • the lower end of the stem 1 is preferably provided with a reduced cross-section and inserted in a corresponding receptacle, which protrudes as an extension from the top of the main body 3 of the cleaning head 2.
  • the stem 1 preferably has a non-round, but non-circular, for example, triangular, outer cross-section to avoid twisting in the hand.
  • the rear, upper end of the stem 1, all handle 16 is formed, and if the stem 1 is hollow, as in the FIG. 1b , can be one at the top Pump 14 may be arranged, in which a piston 17 can be pressed into the cavity 13 of the stem 1 and thereby pressure can be built up in the cavity 13, the sense later on the hand FIG. 3 is explained.
  • the attached to the handle 1 cleaning head 2 is - as from FIG. 1a seen from a extending in a main plane 10 main body 3, such as a plate of increasing thickness to the attachment point 4 of the stem 1 out, and arranged thereon and projecting therefrom in transverse to the main plane cleaning elements 5, hereinafter referred to as bristles shortly.
  • the main body 3 of the cleaning head 2 has the shape of a heart or leaf, pointing the tip of this shape in the opposite direction, in which the handle 1 is curved in the side view.
  • the bristles 5 are individually arranged on the base body 3 and not combined in bundles.
  • the bristles or cleaning elements 5 can be arranged on lines that run parallel to the edge contour of the main body 3, as shown in the upper half of the picture, or on lines that are parallel to only part of the outer contour parallel, as shown in the lower half, approximately parallel to the outer contour of the bulges 9 of the heart shape.
  • the bristles 5 can - for example, if they have a non-circular shape such as the shape of a triangle, with its tip always radially away from the center of the body 3 outward, or always in the direction of the axis of symmetry 18 of the body 3 have.
  • the approximately plate-shaped base body 3 in the transverse direction 11 to its main plane 10 in its peripheral areas lighter bar all lying in the wider center areas may be formed on the top stiffening ribs 8, located in the center, either in the center of gravity or in the attachment point 4 for hit the stem 1, as in FIG. 1 a shown where the attachment point However, 4 is located just behind the center of gravity of the heart shape, which is the meeting point of the stiffening ribs 8 here.
  • the thickness of the base body 3 may increase from the edge area 3a to the central area 3b of the base body 3, as in FIG. 1b shown.
  • the rounded transition radius 19 at the transition 6 between the main body 3 and the cleaning elements 5, as in FIG. 1b it is important to avoid the deposition of soiling in this area, and can best be achieved by integrally forming the cleaning elements 5 together with the main body part 3, for example by molding them from a rubber-like plastic.
  • FIG. 1b drawn in an element that the main body 3 has through holes through which the elements 5 are inserted through so that they protrude on the top and bottom of the main body part 3.
  • constellations can be selected that are adapted to the object to be cleaned, so for example according to FIG. 1b a flat bottom of the base body 3 and a central region 3b rising top, while in the solution according to FIG. 3 is just the opposite, so there is a flat top and a spherical, in the central region 3b bulging underside is given.
  • FIG. 4 A typical adaptation to the object to be cleaned shows FIG. 4 when using the brush according to the invention as Toilettenbrüste to clean the free width 7 under the overhanging edge of a toilet key can.
  • cleaning elements 5 is the same size or preferably slightly larger than the free width to excite both sides of this width simultaneously.
  • the cavity 12 may also serve for storing and dispensing a liquid, be it a cleaning liquid, a disinfecting liquid or an odorant liquid, in which outlet openings in the main body 3, which are preferably designed as valves 15, are arranged.
  • the outlet openings or valves 15 may be formed either in the cleaning elements 5, namely its hollow interior, or also between the cleaning elements 5, but a connection with the cavity 12 in the base body 3 must exist.
  • a pressure on the pump 14 would then spend a limited amount of the substance located in the cavity 12 thereafter.

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PL07786887T PL2046179T3 (pl) 2006-07-25 2007-06-28 Szczotka do toalet
DK13180083.1T DK2674085T3 (en) 2006-07-25 2007-06-28 Toilet Brush
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DE102006034405A DE102006034405B3 (de) 2006-07-25 2006-07-25 Reinigungsbürste
PCT/EP2007/056489 WO2008012161A1 (de) 2006-07-25 2007-06-28 Toilettenbürste

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HUE031074T2 (en) 2017-06-28
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DK2674085T3 (en) 2016-12-12
PL2046179T3 (pl) 2015-06-30
DK2046179T3 (en) 2015-04-20
DE202007019261U1 (de) 2011-08-31
WO2008012161A1 (de) 2008-01-31
EP2046179A1 (de) 2009-04-15
LT2674085T (lt) 2016-12-12
DE102006034405B3 (de) 2007-10-31
ES2602185T3 (es) 2017-02-20
EP2674085B1 (de) 2016-08-24
SI2674085T1 (sl) 2016-12-30
PT2674085T (pt) 2016-12-14

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