Patents Examined by Randall E. Chin
  • Patent number: 12150545
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a brushing part including the following steps: providing the support, pierced with through-holes, passing through the channel formed by the support; forming the tuft of bristles, by assembling a plurality of bristles by one end opposite the free end, so as to form a base of the tuft, so that a diameter of a section of the tuft, in a plane transverse to a direction of extension of the tuft, is greater than a diameter of a through-hole; merging the ends forming the base of the at least one tuft so that an extension of the merged zone in a direction transverse to the direction of extension of the at least one tuft is greater than an extension of the base in the transverse direction before the merging step; inserting the one tuft by force into one of the holes of the channel of the support, depositing glue and filling with resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: FASTEESH
    Inventors: Christophe Cadot, Benjamin Cohen
  • Patent number: 12150544
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modular brush, with improved structure so that modular brush heads of various grades stored inside the storage compartment in the handle, are automatically exposed outwardly from the storage compartment, in connection with the cover opening movement. Thus, anybody can easily interchange one modular brush head with another. In particular, the modular brush is comprised mainly of a handle (10), cover (20), brush head portions (30), mounting portions (40), and lifting portions (50), so that by simple operation, the brush bristles in a gathered state retract into the ferrule tube of the brushhead for protection when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventors: So-Young Song, Richard Llewellyn Wilson
  • Patent number: 12144476
    Abstract: The Grease Getter is the only product of its kind that utilizes a cardboard blade that can be disposed of and can be used by any company or service that performs or provides lubrication of machines and vehicles as a go-to accessory for post-work clean-up. This unprecedented product is uniquely designed with durable, high-quality materials to ensure long-term sustainability and can be used on any surface to address oil spills and stains, in private or commercial settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Orin
  • Patent number: 12137863
    Abstract: There is provided a shoe sole cleaning device (10) comprising a lower tray (20) having a bottom wall (22) and one or more side walls (24) which define a first compartment (V1) for cleaning liquid, and an upper tray (30) having a bottom wall (32) and one or more side walls (34) which define a second compartment (V2) for pebbles or crushed stone. The upper tray (30) is shaped and dimensioned such that at least a part thereof is accommodated in the first compartment (V1) of the lower tray (20). The upper tray (30) includes one or more holes (36) communicate between the first and second compartments (V1, V2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Aquablast Services Limited
    Inventor: Mark Horridge
  • Patent number: 12138782
    Abstract: A cleaning system is provided. The cleaning system includes a robot cleaner and a station. The robot cleaner includes a pad fixing part on which a cleaning pad is detachably mounted, a lifter to lift a part of the robot cleaner at which the pad fixing part is positioned, and a pad detacher to detach the cleaning pad mounted on the pad fixing part. The station includes a pad storage box in which a cleaning pad that is to be provided to the robot cleaner is stored, a pad coupling part on which a cleaning pad that is to be coupled to the robot cleaner is rested, and a pad supplier to supply the cleaning pad stored in the pad storage box to the pad coupling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sin Ae Kim, Byoung In Lee, Dong Woo Ha, Seok Man Hong, Dong Jun Kim, Ji Won Choi
  • Patent number: 12137854
    Abstract: A cleaner includes a body, a left spin-mop module located on a left side of the body and a right spin-mop module located on a right side of the body, each of the left spin-mop module and the right spin-mop module being rotatable about a first rotational axis to perform mopping, a left spin-drive unit disposed on the left side of the body, the left spin-drive unit being configured to provide a force to rotate the left spin-mop module; and a right spin-drive unit disposed on the right side of the body, the right spin-drive unit being configured to provide a force to rotate the right spin-mop module. Each of the left spin-drive unit and the right spin-drive unit has a second rotational axis that extend in a direction different from the first rotational axis of the respective left spin-drive unit and the right spin-drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Jaewon Jang, Inhyung Yang
  • Patent number: 12134106
    Abstract: A liquid applicator apparatus that allows for simultaneous application of a liquid to a plurality of surfaces, including: a handle member; an applicator retaining member; a first liquid applicator; a second liquid applicator; and wherein the first liquid applicator and second liquid applicator are adapted to enable a user to simultaneously apply a liquid to noncontinuous and/or nonplanar surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Barbara Puzycki
  • Patent number: 12133621
    Abstract: A hands-free footwear and foot cleaning device which allows the user to clean the bottom or the sole of the footwear as well as the exterior surrounding sides of the footwear. The device can also be used to clean a user's bare foot. The device utilizes a plurality of rollers and a series of water line sprayers that are adapted to spray in a direction to contact one or more of the side portion, bottom portion, or top portion of the sole of a footwear or foot. The sprayers are activated by either a sensor or a pressure devise. The device may also include the option of incorporating additional elements for the purpose of cleaning bare feet rather than just the bottoms of the footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: John Marshall Tendall
  • Patent number: 12127665
    Abstract: A handwashing device that provides an incentive for proper handwashing is presented. The handwashing device contains a housing, a brush layer, a processing unit, an activation element, an indicator element, and a timer switch. The housing is positioned within the brush layer. The processing unit is positioned within the housing. The processing unit, the activation element, the indicator element, and the timer switch are electronically connected to the processing unit. In the preferred embodiment, the housing may take the form of a rigid and waterproof electronics enclosure that houses the electronic components that constitutes the handwashing device. Additionally, the housing serves as a mounting implement for the brush layer to attach along where the brush layer conforms to the shape of the housing. In the preferred embodiment, the housing is constructed out of a light permeable material, such as, but not limited to translucent polycarbonate, or any other suitable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventors: Laurie McMillan, Tanner McMillan
  • Patent number: 12127722
    Abstract: A cleaner includes a first cleaning module including a left spin mop and a right spin mop that come into contact with a floor while rotating in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from an upper side, a second cleaning module that comes into contact with the floor at a position spaced apart from the left spin mop and the right spin mop in a forward-and-backward direction, a body supported by the first cleaning module and the second cleaning module, and a water supply module that supplies water to the first cleaning module. A water tank is disposed inside the body. Water supplied by the water supply module reaches the first cleaning module before reaching the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Jaewon Jang, Inhyung Yang
  • Patent number: 12127666
    Abstract: An animal hairbrush having a handle and a brush head with various bristles for grooming animal hair. The animal hairbrush includes a removable cover having a rigid base and a hair binding layer. The hair binding layer is adapted to collect the animal hair. The removable cover has a plurality of perforations into which the various bristles on the brush head are aligned and placed within. The removable cover may be embodied as a plurality of removable sheets layered on top of each other and onto the rigid base. The hair binding layer may be an adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Vasiliki Karras
  • Patent number: 12129669
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate correction device generally consisting of at least four separate plates that are adjustable for depth and width, horizontally and vertically thus capable of correcting a cementitious substrate to the required depth and width to accept a given insert in a predetermined area so that insert is flush with area surrounding the insert. The substrate correction device can also be adjusted, both horizontally and vertically, without plate edges losing their parallel arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Rex Barker, William Timothy Badger
  • Patent number: 12115553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paint roller frame for application of a fluid, such as a paint or stain, on any surface. The paint roller includes a head section that can accommodate roller covers or paint rollers of various sizes by adjusting a length of a top edge that adjusts the distance between connectors configured for holding the roller cover. The frame includes an adjustable swivel that enables a pivotal movement of a pole section relative to the head section. The pole section can be secured to the swivel which enables users to rotate the attached roller cover in a range of motion generally 90-degrees on either side of the perpendicular direction to the head section. The pole section can be telescoping and enables users to paint elevated areas, thereby obviating a ladder or stepstool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Melanie Hepler
  • Patent number: 12108868
    Abstract: A powered tool brush includes: a connecting member, one end of which is a free end, at least part of the connecting member close to the free end is used for being connected to a rotation drive end of a powered tool; a structural support member, which is fixedly connected to another end of the connecting member; and an integrally formed brush head, the head having a bottom wall, a brush body and a side wall, the bottom wall is used for covering a surface position of the support member that is away from the connecting member, the body is formed by the bottom wall and/or the side wall extending in a direction away from the support member, and the side wall is formed by the bottom wall extending in a direction approaching the support member, and is used for wrapping and covering the periphery of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NINGHAI ZHONG JIE BRUSH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ce Dai
  • Patent number: 12103329
    Abstract: An eraser for removing strokes of writing, painting and/or drawing tools, including at least one binder and at least one plasticizer. The eraser includes at least one plasticizer in the form of pentaerythritol tetravalerate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: STAEDTLER SE
    Inventor: Tanja Maderer
  • Patent number: 12096846
    Abstract: A multifunctional handheld applicator includes a handle having a material reservoir, an upper portion, and a lower portion. A mechanism housing is affixed to the upper portion of the handle and includes a motor operably connected to a drive gear. A pair of cam gears are mechanically engaged with and disposed on opposing sides of the drive gear. A cam is affixed to each cam gear, wherein each cam engages an opposing end of an actuator affixed to a head assembly that is operably connected to the mechanism housing. Activation of motor causes rotation of the drive gear, which causes the cams to make alternating reciprocal contact with the opposing ends of the actuator, thereby causing reciprocal side-to-side motion of the head assembly and the attached scrubbing pad. A pulley, cable, and spring assembly also causes reciprocal up-and-down motion of the head assembly via a sliding exterior handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Garry Desyr
  • Patent number: 12096898
    Abstract: A floor cleaning system and a method of cleaning a floor are provided. The cleaning system includes a flat headed mop. The system also includes a frame and at least one compartment removably coupled to the frame. A wringing assembly is fluidly coupled to the at least one compartment, the wringing assembly comprising a fixed extractor element and at least one roller movable from a first position when the mop head is being inserted to a second position when the mop head is being withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Unger Marketing International, LLC
    Inventors: William Harrington, Robert F. Smith, Joseph K. Patterson, Paul H. Adams
  • Patent number: 12075956
    Abstract: A cleaning robot system is provided. The cleaning robot system includes a cleaning robot including one or more mop members configured to clean a surface and a base station that operates in conjunction with the cleaning robot. The base station includes a housing, a cleaning notch disposed in the housing and configured to receive the one or more mop members during a cleaning process for cleaning the one or more mop members, at least one fluid inlet structure configured to supply a cleaning fluid to at least a portion of the one or more mop members, one or more protruding portions disposed in the cleaning notch and configured to scrape off the cleaning fluid from at least the portion of the one or more mop members, and a fluid discharge structure configured to drain the cleaning fluid from the cleaning notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Yunjing Intelligence Innovation (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junbin Zhang, Weijin Lin
  • Patent number: 12075908
    Abstract: The present invention is a makeup brush with a releasably connectable ferrule and handle, so that the ferrules and handles are interchangeable. The means for releasably connecting the ferrule and the handle may be, for examples, by friction fit or by the inclusion of sliding features, such as a notch and channel, such being additional methods for releasable connectivity beyond those already patented and/or developed by the inventor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: LUMETIQUE, INC.
    Inventor: Andrea Gunness
  • Patent number: 12070170
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to an apparatus for cleaning or otherwise treating a floor or ground surface. Devices provided herein include various features to enhance the efficiency and efficacy of cleaning operations. Such devices includes, but are not limited to, bearing protector devices, cord and cable management devices, and ergonomic features useful with ride-on floor treating machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: KARCHER NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael William Mingee, Daniel Venard