EP2271238A1 - Brosse et son utilisation - Google Patents

Brosse et son utilisation

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Publication number
EP2271238A1
EP2271238A1 EP09741821A EP09741821A EP2271238A1 EP 2271238 A1 EP2271238 A1 EP 2271238A1 EP 09741821 A EP09741821 A EP 09741821A EP 09741821 A EP09741821 A EP 09741821A EP 2271238 A1 EP2271238 A1 EP 2271238A1
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Prior art keywords
brush
brush head
bristles
brush according
bristle bundles
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German (de)
English (en)
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EP2271238B1 (fr
Inventor
Christopher Dean
David A. Mcknight
Henning Teetzmann
Thomas Schindler
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Carl Freudenberg KG
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Carl Freudenberg KG
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B15/00—Other brushes; Brushes with additional arrangements
    • A46B15/0002—Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B11/00—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B17/00—Accessories for brushes
    • A46B17/06—Devices for cleaning brushes after use
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B2200/00—Brushes characterized by their functions, uses or applications
    • A46B2200/30—Brushes for cleaning or polishing
    • A46B2200/3033—Household brush, i.e. brushes for cleaning in the house or dishes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B7/00—Bristle carriers arranged in the brush body

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a brush comprising a brush head which is connected to bristles and a use of the brush.
  • dishwashing brushes are well known and can be used in different fields, for example as dishwashing brushes.
  • Previously known dishwashing brushes can often only be rinsed out with great difficulty after their use and, moreover, often with limited success, especially when previously pulpy, highly viscous impurities have been removed from crockery.
  • the invention is based on the object, a brush of the type mentioned in such a way that these can be cleaned easier and faster after their use.
  • the unwanted formation of splashing water during the cleaning process of the brush should be minimized.
  • a brush is provided, the brush head has at least one opening formed as a flushing passage for cleaning the bristles.
  • the brush can be cleaned easier and faster after their use.
  • the cleaning of the brush takes place in that a cleaning agent, such as running water, is passed from above through the flushing channel in the brush head on the bristles and thereby rinses out the impurities that are between the bristles.
  • a cleaning agent such as running water
  • the advantageous effect is due to the fact that the flushing out of the impurities takes place in virtually the opposite direction with respect to the direction in which the contaminants have passed between the bristles. There is no danger, as in prior art brushes, that during the cleaning process of the brushes, the contaminants will adhere more firmly between the bristles.
  • the perforations designed as flushing passages not only facilitate easier flushing of the brush, but that the formation of sprayed water, for example, when flushing the brush under running water, is significantly reduced by the flushing channels designed as perforations. This is probably due to the fact that the water jet does not hit, as usual in brushes of the prior art, on a plane closed surface and is deflected from there and partially thrown back again; the jet of water impinging on the perforated surface of the brush head is broken and the formation of spray water is thereby minimized.
  • the brush head preferably has a plurality of flushing channels. Through several flushing channels, which are used, the removal of impurities from the bristles is further improved and the formation of splashing further reduced.
  • the flushing channels can be arranged distributed uniformly in the brush head. All bristles of the brush can be cleaned by impurities as much as possible; Dead spaces into which no cleaning fluid passes are thereby avoided.
  • the flushing channels can penetrate the brush head in the direction of flushing essentially vertically.
  • Such aligned flushing channels allow a horizontal rinsing of the brush head, for example, under running water, and thus a very rapid rinsing.
  • most of the contaminants are flushed out of the bristles without residue.
  • the flushing channels can have a continuously decreasing cross-section in the flushing direction. In manufacturing terms, this is an advantage. In addition, the jet of cleaning liquid can thereby be more targeted to the critical points of the bristles in which the impurities settle during use of the brush.
  • the flushing channels may each have a substantially rectangular or oval cross-section. As a result, the flushing channels are designed slot-shaped, with bristles or bristle bundles then being able to extend along the peripheral boundary of the flushing channels on the underside of the brush head.
  • the flushing channels are arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction of the brush head and extend over almost the entire width of the brush head. It is advantageous that the arranged over the entire width of the brush head bristles or bristle bundles are well cleaned.
  • the ratio between the width of the brush head and the width of the flushing channels can be 1, 1 to 1, 5. For most applications, such a ratio has proven to be advantageous in terms of easy cleaning of the brush.
  • the ratio of the width of the flushing channels to their length on the upper side of the brush head is preferably 3 to 6.
  • the comparatively small width of the flushing channels leaves much material of the brush head to which the bristles or bundles of bristles can be fastened. A large number of bristles or bundles of bristles favors effective cleaning of the surfaces to be cleaned.
  • At least a part of the previously described bristles can be combined into bristle bundles.
  • bristles are combined into bristle bundles.
  • the summary of bundles of bristles is particularly advantageous when the brush head has the apertures according to the invention, because the restraints of the bristle bundles can thereby be grouped well around the apertures.
  • the bundles of bristles are very dense in the region of their restraints are formed packed, fan the bristle bundles on their side facing away from the brush head to achieve a good cleaning performance.
  • the bristles and / or the bristle bundles can be arranged obliquely to the vertical rinsing direction in the brush head.
  • the bristles and / or the bristle bundles preferably define an angle which is 30 ° to 60 ° with the vertical rinsing direction. Compared to bristles or bundles of bristles, which are arranged in the flushing direction in the brush head, not only the cleaning performance of the brush is improved. The rinsing out of contaminants by the bristles and / or bristle bundles arranged at an angle to the rinsing direction is also improved because a larger area is exposed to cleaning liquid, whereby the use of bristle bundles effectively rinses out the inner area of the bristle bundles.
  • the brush head may be flat on its upper side facing away from the bristles and / or bristle bundles. It is advantageous that the top of the brush head can be cleaned well.
  • the brush head can be concavely curved on its upper side facing away from the bristles and / or bristle bundles, transversely to its longitudinal direction.
  • the water jet is channeled through the concave shape of the top of the brush head practically in the direction of the openings, so that with further reduced splashing water with less cleaning liquid better rinsing of the brush is ensured.
  • the brush head may have in its longitudinal and / or transverse direction a convexly curved underside, in which the bristles and / or bristle bundles are fixed.
  • a convexly curved underside in which the bristles and / or bristle bundles are fixed.
  • the bristles of the bristle bundles are in the longitudinal and in the transverse direction beyond the circumference in the edge of the brush head, so that impurities can be easily removed even in hard to reach places, for example in the transition region of a pot bottom to the side wall of the pot.
  • the brush head can on the one hand have a scaler protruding upward against the bristles and / or bundles of bristles. Encrustations that could not be removed by the bristles or bristle bundles of the brush alone in the first step, can be broken with the scraper first and then easily removed by means of the bristles or bristle bundles.
  • the brush head may have a handle.
  • the brush head and the handle can be integrally merge into one another and formed of the same material.
  • the brush head may consist of a polymeric material. Due to the low weight of the brush is easy to handle and when used as a dish brush also stainless and resistant to most impurities and cleaning fluids. Due to the one-piece design of brush head and Handle dividing joints in the brush are avoided; the hygiene is thereby improved.
  • the brush head and the handle can be non-destructively releasably connected to each other.
  • Such an embodiment is for example advantageous if differently designed
  • the invention also relates to the use of a brush as described above.
  • a brush with a brush head which has at least one opening formed as a flushing channel for cleaning the bristles, is used according to the invention as a dishwashing brush.
  • a brush that can be rinsed well, of particular advantage. Even mushy, highly viscous impurities, which are stuck following the cleaning of surfaces to be cleaned between the bristles and / or between the bristles of the bristle bundles, can be well rinsed by the inventive design of the brush head.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4. show:
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of a dishwashing brush according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a view of the dishwashing brush of FIGS. 1 and 2 from below and Fig. 4 shows a detail of the front brush head, in a sectional view.
  • a brush which is used as a dishwashing brush.
  • the dishwashing brush comprises a brush head 1 which is connected to bristles 2.
  • all bristles 2 are combined into bundles of bristles 10; Deviating configurations in which partly bristles 2, partly bristle bundles 10 or only bristles 2 are used, are likewise conceivable, depending on the respective application.
  • the brush head 1 is in the illustrated embodiment of a polymeric material and is integrally merging with each other and formed of the same material with the handle 14.
  • three openings 4 are arranged in the form of flushing channels 3, which completely penetrate the brush head 1 in the washing direction 5.
  • the flushing channels 3 are slit-shaped, arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction 6 of the brush head 1 and extend almost over the entire width 7 of the brush head.
  • the ratio between the width 7 of the brush head 1 and the width 8 of the flushing channels 3 is in the embodiment shown here 1, 3; the ratio of the width 8 of the flushing channels 3 to the length 9 on the upper side 11 of the brush head 1 is in contrast 4.5.
  • the brush head 1 against the bristle bundles 10 upwardly curved scraper 13.
  • the scraper 13 is provided to first break up intractable incrustations before the remaining broken contaminants can be removed from the bristle bundles 10.
  • the top 11 of the brush head 1 is formed either concave or curved transversely to its longitudinal direction 6. If the dishwashing brush is rinsed out under running water after use, as shown in FIG. 2, running water meets the upper side 11 of the brush head 1 in the washing direction 5 and passes through the washing channels 3 to the bristle bundles 10, where it also cleans pulpy, highly viscous impurities from the bristle bundles 10.
  • two rows of bristle bundles 10 are respectively arranged between the adjacent flushing channels 3, wherein the two rows of bristle bundles 10 can be acted upon by cleaning liquid, in this case flowing water, by means of a flushing channel 3.
  • the arrangement of the flushing channels 3, based on the bristle bundles 10, can be seen in the bottom view of FIG. 3.
  • the bristles 2 of the bristle bundles 10 with the vertical rinsing 5 an angle limit ⁇ , which is 30 ° to 60 ° in the embodiment shown here.
  • FIG. 4 a section of the brush head 1 is shown in which the vertical rinsing direction 5 through the rinsing channels 3, viewed in the longitudinal direction 6 of the brush head 1, with the bristles 2 and / or bristle bundles 10 Limit angle ⁇ , which is 30 ° to 60 °.
  • the dishwashing brush according to the invention has very good service properties during a long service life, because the bristles 2 and / or the bristle bundles 10 can be cleaned simply and effectively by means of the flushing channels 3 and the formation of unwanted splashing water during the cleaning of the brush by the flushing channels 3, which penetrate the top 11 of the brush body 1 is minimized.

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  • Brushes (AREA)
  • Cleaning Implements For Floors, Carpets, Furniture, Walls, And The Like (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne une brosse comprenant une tête (1) à laquelle des poils (2) sont solidarisés. L'invention se caractérise en ce que la tête (1) de la brosse comporte au moins une ouverture (4) réalisée sous la forme d'un canal d'écoulement (3) et permettant le nettoyage des poils (2). La brosse peut s'utiliser comme une brosse à vaisselle.
EP09741821.4A 2008-05-08 2009-04-25 Brosse et son utilisation Not-in-force EP2271238B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DE102008022883A DE102008022883B3 (de) 2008-05-08 2008-05-08 Bürste und deren Verwendung
PCT/EP2009/003032 WO2009135602A1 (fr) 2008-05-08 2009-04-25 Brosse et son utilisation

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EP2271238A1 true EP2271238A1 (fr) 2011-01-12
EP2271238B1 EP2271238B1 (fr) 2014-07-09

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US (1) US20110048457A1 (fr)
EP (1) EP2271238B1 (fr)
CN (2) CN102006800A (fr)
DE (1) DE102008022883B3 (fr)
WO (1) WO2009135602A1 (fr)

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US20110048457A1 (en) 2011-03-03
CN102006800A (zh) 2011-04-06
DE102008022883B3 (de) 2009-11-19

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