WO1999013759A1 - Laniere de friction du dos et son procede de fabrication - Google Patents

Laniere de friction du dos et son procede de fabrication Download PDF

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WO1999013759A1
WO1999013759A1 PCT/IB1998/001335 IB9801335W WO9913759A1 WO 1999013759 A1 WO1999013759 A1 WO 1999013759A1 IB 9801335 W IB9801335 W IB 9801335W WO 9913759 A1 WO9913759 A1 WO 9913759A1
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Andrew Raymond Cipra
Richard Michael Girardot
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The Procter & Gamble Company
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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
    • A47K7/00—Body washing or cleaning implements
    • A47K7/02—Bathing sponges, brushes, gloves, or similar cleaning or rubbing implements
    • A47K7/022—Bathing sponges, brushes, gloves, or similar cleaning or rubbing implements for washing the back, e.g. bath straps

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  • the present invention relates to personal cleansing implements and more particularly to such implements made of plastic scrim wherein a cleansing fluid is applied to the user's body or to the scrim, and motion of the scrim against the body causes the cleansing fluid to lather for optimum cleaning. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to such plastic scrim implements wherein the construction enables the user to effectively scrub his/her back. The present invention also relates to the method of constructing such implements.
  • Back scrubbing is difficult with one hand reaching behind the back or over the shoulders because a large surface area must be reached. Flexibility in one's shoulders is often lacking to eanble one reach all areas of his/her back, especially as one grows older. In response, brushes with long handles have been marketed for back scrubbing use, wherein one hand may gain access to a greater area of the back. However, brushes are expensive, heavy, and difficult to clean of flakes of skin and hair that may become embedded in the bristles. Thus, back scrubbing brushes have both a convenience and sanitation problem.
  • What has been missing is a method for back scrubbing using the light wieght plastic scrim recently developed to optimize personal cleansing, but with a construction which will permit use similar to that of a towel, wherein the implement may be held by both hands and oscillated against all surfaces of the back.
  • a back scrubbing implement which may easily be rinsed and dried for sanitary reuse, and which may also be conveniently shaped for cleaning the rest of one's body with one hand.
  • a back scrubber comprises at least one stretchable piece of material having a substantially open and hydrophobic structure and a first end and a second end. The first and second ends are movable apart as the stretchable material is stretched.
  • the back scrubber further comprises a first tether cord connected to the first end and a second tether cord connected to the second end.
  • the first and second tether cords each have a knotted loop portion into which a user's hand may be placed in order to stretch the back scrubber to a dimension which permits a two-handed toweling motion.
  • the back scrubber further comprises a second stretchable piece of material cinched to the at least one piece of material between the at least one piece of material and the second tether cord.
  • a back scrubber comprises two pieces of laterally stretched and longitudinally gathered plastic tubular scrim cinched together by a cinching cord.
  • the two pieces when cinched together have a first end and a second end.
  • the first and second ends are stretchable apart laterally.
  • the back scrubber further comprises a first tether cord connected to the first end and a second tether cord connected to the second end.
  • the first and second tether cords each have a knotted loop portion into which a user's hand may be placed in order to stretch the back scrubber to a dimension which permits a two- handed toweling motion.
  • a method of making a back scrubber comprises the steps of stretching laterally a first piece of tubular scrim to fit over a first pair of spaced apart posts such that a dimension of the first pair of posts provides a first opening in the first piece of tubular scrim. Another step is gathering longitudinally the first piece of tubular scrim on the first pair of posts to form a first group of pleats.
  • the second pair of posts are located adjacent and in line with the first pair of posts.
  • Yet another step includes inserting a cinching cord into the first and second openings and knotting it around the first and second groups of pleats such that the first and second pieces of tubular scrim are cinched together at a cinch point.
  • Still other steps includes connecting a first tether cord to the first piece of tubular scrim at an end opposite the cinch point, and connecting a second tether cord to the second piece of tubular scrim at an end opposite the cinch point.
  • the first and second tether cords each have a knotted loop portion into which a user's hand may be placed in order to stretch the back scrubber to a dimension which permits a two- handed toweling motion.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of a preferred embodiment of the back scrubber and method of construction of the present invention, disclosing two pieces of tubular scrim being stretched laterally about their vertical axes to enable each piece of scrim to fit over two spaced-apart posts;
  • FIG. 2 is a front elevation view thereof, showing each piece of tubular scrim stretched over the posts and gathered thereon while a cinching cord connects the two pieces of scrim together and tether cords are attached around the outer ends of the two pieces of stretched and gathered scrim;
  • FIG. 3 is a front elevation view thereof disclosing the removal of the posts and the resulting cleansing implement, which contracts into the shape of two adjoining balls having pleats of scrim around them and the cinching cord buried between them;
  • FIG. 4 is a front elevation view thereof, showing the cleansing implement when the two tether cords are pulled in opposite directions to stretch the contracted implement to a length useful for two-handed back scrubbing.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 there is shown a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which provides an apparatus and method of constructing a back scrubbing implement generally indicated as 10.
  • Apparatus 10 has a base 12 and four upright posts 14, 15, 16, and 17 located in a linear orientation.
  • Two similar pieces of plastic tubular scrim 18 and 19, having vertical axes 20 and 21, respectively, are stretched such that piece of scrim 18 is placed around posts 14 and 15 and piece of scrim 19 is placed around posts 16 and 17.
  • Pieces of scrim 18 and 19 are then gathered while stretched around their respective posts to form pleats 22 and 23.
  • Posts 14, 15, 16, and 17 are preferably circular in cross-section and have a diameter which provides an opening (not seen) within each of stretched and gathered pleats 22 and 23 of pieces of tubular scrim 18 and 19.
  • a cinching cord 24 is inserted through the openings within the stretched and gathered pleats 22 and 23 while the pieces of scrim remain stretched around the posts. Cinching cord 24 is then tied tightly to cinch the two pieces of scrim together.
  • tether cords 26 and 28 are inserted in the openings created in the scrim between the posts. Tether cords 26 and 28 are also cinched tight around stretched and gathered pleats 22 and 23, respectively.
  • Tether cords 26 and 28 are then tied at their outer ends 27 and 29, respectively, to form loops sufficiently large for a user to place a hand therethrough.
  • Tether cords 26 and 28 may be elasticized or non-stretchable. They may be attached to the plastic tubular scrim by velcro, snap, or clip fasteners, or via cinching.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show an assembled back scrubber, generally indicated as 30, when base 12 and posts 14, 15, 16, and 17 are removed.
  • Back scrubber 30 is shown contracted in FIG. 3 and stretched in FIG. 4.
  • Back scrubber 30 has two substantially spherical balls of scrim 32 and 34 held together by cinching cord 24, which is buried between balls 32 and 34 and not visible.
  • Pleats 22 and 23 are curved around the balls and give the balls their spherical shape.
  • Tether cords 26 and 28 extend from opposite ends of back scrubber 30.
  • Tether cords 26 and 28 may be looped together to form one larger ball for a single-handed personal cleansing implement or they may be pulled apart to enable a user to scrub his/her back as one would do by toweling — an oscillating motion of the implement held by two hands at either side of one's back or above and below a shoulder.
  • two pieces of plastic tubular mesh scrim 18 and 19 are made of polyethylene and each have an unstretched diameter of approximately 15 cm and an ungathered length of approximately 20 cm.
  • Each piece of scrim 18 and 19 has a preferred basis weight ranging from 6.5 to 9.8 grams per meter of axial length.
  • Posts 14 and 15 and posts 16 and 17 are preferably spaced about 19 cm apart and have a diameter of about 13 mm.
  • Posts 15 and 16 are preferably spaced as close as reasonable to enable gathering of pleats 22 and 23. This distance is typically about 13 cm.
  • Cinching cord 24 is preferably cotton twine.
  • Tether cords 26 and 28 are preferably 53-56 cm long pieces of braided polypropylene tied to form a loop about 18 cm long.
  • the resulting back scrubber 30 is about 20 cm in length unstretched (excluding tethers) and may be stretched to about 56 cm long (excluding tethers).
  • a back scrubber could be made by stretching and gathering one piece of tubular scrim over posts 14 and 17 and then cinching the center of the single stretched and gathered piece of scrim around the outside thereof, and tying tethers to the opposite ends of the single piece of scrim similar to what is done for the two pieces of scrim.
  • three or more stretched and gathered pieces of scrim could be interconnected in a chain fashion, using additional posts in a linear orientation and multiple cinching cords.
  • plastic scrim A significant benefit of plastic scrim is the softness and openness of the structure, which is essentially hydrophobic and therefore easy to rinse and dry for reuse.
  • other stretchable materials could be used instead of plastic scrim, such as elasticized non-woven materials or knitted materials.

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L'invention concerne une lanière de friction (30) du dos comprenant deux bandes tubulaire en plastique (32, 34) fixée ensemble par un cordon d'attache. Les deux parties (32, 34), lorsqu'elles sont fixées ensemble, présentent des première et deuxième extrémités détachables l'une de l'autre lorsque les deux bandes de plastique tubulaire sont étirées. Ladite lanière de friction (30) présente également un cordon d'attache (26) relié à une première extrémité et un deuxième cordon d'attache (28) relié à la deuxième extrémité. Les premier et deuxième cordons d'attache (26, 28) présentent chacun une partie boucle nouée dans laquelle l'utilisateur place une main pour étirer ladite lanière (30) jusqu'à ce qu'elle ait une certaine dimension et qu'il puisse l'utiliser pour se frotter le dos.
PCT/IB1998/001335 1997-09-12 1998-08-28 Laniere de friction du dos et son procede de fabrication WO1999013759A1 (fr)

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JP2000511394A JP2001516603A (ja) 1997-09-12 1998-08-28 背中洗浄具及びその製造方法
EP98938848A EP1011403A1 (fr) 1997-09-12 1998-08-28 Laniere de friction du dos et son procede de fabrication

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US5504963A (en) * 1994-04-22 1996-04-09 Bynum Concepts, Inc. Back scrubber device and method of making same
US5560071A (en) * 1995-10-24 1996-10-01 Chang; Che-Yuan Beltlike bath scrubber
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US5144744A (en) * 1989-04-03 1992-09-08 Antonio Campagnoli Manufacturing method of a diamond-mesh polyethylene netting sponge
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US5560071A (en) * 1995-10-24 1996-10-01 Chang; Che-Yuan Beltlike bath scrubber
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