US1993174A - Sanitary wash cloth - Google Patents

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March 5, 1935. J. H. LE coNEY l SANITARY WASH CLOTH Filed Ju l, 1953A Patented Mar. 5, i935 i NrTap sTATss PATENT ortica SANITARY WASH CLOTH Joseph H. Le Coney, Bedford, Mass., assigner te Earnshaw Knitting Company, Newton, Mass., a corporation ot Massachusetts Application July 1, 1933, Serial No. 678,557

1 Claim. (Cl. 15V-122) This invention relates to a sanitary wash The pocket is shown as centrally locatedin cloth. the wash cloth but it is obvious that it may be The principal object ofthe invention is the formed in any portion of the article. 'I'he sizes production of a sanitary wash cloth which may and shapes of the wash cloth and the pocket 5 be thrown away after one use. may be varied to suit the requirements of use or 5 Another object of the invention is the provision to conform to particular purposes. of a wash cloth provided with a pocket for car- My invention has many advantages. Wash rying a supply of soap in granulated or powcloths made in accordance therewith can be I dered form sufficient for one use. made and sold in sealed packages at a very low 1o Further objects of the invention will be in part cost and when so packed are maintained in a 10 obvious and in part hereinafter described. perfect sanitary condition up-to the time of use.

My invention contemplates a wash cloth of Since each wash cloth contains a supply of deany material suitable for that purpose, but preftergent material entirely adequate for one use, erably of textile material, having a small closed which material is protected from contamination,

l5 pocket formed therein by stitching or otherwise, it is unnecessary to resort to detergents which 15 said pocket being lled with a detergent matehave been used by others or which have been rial preferably in granulated or powdered form. exposed to possible contamination.

It is desirable that the material used for the A wash cloth of this description is especially wash cloth be of.cheap but suitable material so adapted for use onthe tender skinfof infants 2q; that it may be made at a low cost to justify and children which is very susceptible to im- 20 throwing the wash cloth away after a single use. purities either on the wash cloth or in the deter- In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a gent. It is also especially adapted for use in view in perspective of a wash cloth made in' travelling because of its sanitary qualities and accordance with the invention and,Figure 2 is because it can be Vthrown away after one use a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line which avoidsthe disadvantages of packing a 25 2 2 in Figure l. Wet wash rag. It will be obvious that there are In the preferred form of the invention illusmany other uses to which a wash cloth of this trated in Figures l and 2 of the drawing, the description can be applied with advantage. wash cloth comprises two superposed layers 10 It is to be understood that my invention may be 3o and 12 of any material suitable for that purpose. embodied in various other forms than that here- 30 Preferably a textile material is used and in the in shown and described all within the purview of form shown, a'rectangular sheet of material is the following claims. folded upon itself on line 14 to form an approxi- What I daim is; mately square body portion of double thickness. A sanitry wash @10th adapted to he discarded The edges of the two layers, other than the ioldafter a single use and comprising a, rectangular 35 ed edge 14 are left free and @attached t0 piece of suitable cheap textile material folded ea'ch other but it is Obvious that 4my may be upon itself to form two superposed layers of the Stitched together if s@ desired same area, said layers being stitched together at In Order t0 form a' Closed Docket in the Wash or adjacent the center of said cloth to form an 40 010th the two layers 10 and 12 are fastened to' approximately circular closed pocket, said pocket 40 gether in any suitable manner such as by a circontaining detergent material in granulated or cle 0f Stitching 18- The pocket is 0f a size adapt powdered form suillcient for one use only, the ed to hold a supply of detergent 16 adequate for reninining portions of said two myers being a Single use 0f the Wash cloth- The detergent unattached to each otherexcept at said fold. may be of any form but preferably is in granu- A lated or powdered form and is placed in posi- JOSEPH E LE com. tion between the layers just before the pocket is formed by the` stitching 18.

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