Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning animals useful for simultaneously brushing and applying a fluid to a pet's coat. The device is a brush shaped like a cone with rounded contours having metal bristles with rounded tips. In addition to the bristles, the brush includes fluid conduits which run parallel to the bristles. The conduits are attached to a fluid reservoir housed in the body of the brush or in a handle attached to the brush. In some embodiments, the fluid may be contained in a cartridge. A button may be included to selectively dispense the fluid, through use of a manual pump or an electric motor. A disposable pad may be attached to the exterior of the brush, allowing the metal bristles to pass through the pad. The pad may attach using hook-and-loop fasteners or some other type of adhesive. The device is particularly useful for cleaning dogs.

Abstract: A shampooing tool has a “clam-shell” design for trapping the components of the tool between the complementary mating halves of the housing. The components include a barrel disposed in the upper portion of the housing and connected to a pressurized water source, a trigger depending from an enclosed hand grip, a normally-closed spring-loaded valve disposed in the front portion of the housing and connected to the trigger for movement in unison, and a cylinder within the lower part of the housing, the cylinder having a pressurized liquid detergent and further having a discharge port leading to a valve seat. When the trigger is depressed, the valve is unseated; and the liquid detergent, under pressure, flows into a tube running substantially parallel to the barrel.

Abstract: Machines for writing braille type having two opposing rows of embossing units each with a support holding a punch-forming stamp guidable between an inactive position and a pushed-out embossing position with abutment against a die member disposed opposite the embossing unit. An electromagnet for each unit controls the stamp with a displaceable plunger. The rows of units are arranged for synchronous movement towards and away from each other in a direction substantially at right angles to the path of movement of a sheet for receiving the type. Each opposing support forms coherent die-punch pairs. Each support has a double-armed rocker which with one end abuts an impressing end of the embossing stamp while the other end projects outwards so that on movement of the support towards the path of the sheet, it is guided substantially at right angles towards the end of the plunger of the electromagnet when said plunger is pushed out.