Surface Design Or Elevation Patents (Class 68/229)
  • Patent number: 11246363
    Abstract: Implementations of a hair extension washboard are provided. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard comprises a hair extensions board, a hair clip assembly, and a board support. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard further comprises a hair drying enclosure. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard also comprises surface connectors. In some implementations, a method of using the hair extension washboard comprises positioning the hair extension washboard in a sink or other suitable location, holding hair extensions with the hair extension washboard, and washing, coloring, drying, etc. the hair extensions while held by the hair extension washboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Ashley Davis
  • Patent number: 5829279
    Abstract: A device includes a flexible board and a plate, the board having an aperture defined in a first end thereof and a plurality of ridges extending transversely from a top surface thereof, the plate having a head portion formed to a first end thereof and a position member extending from a second end thereof so that the position member is securely received in the aperture. The plate has at least one hole defined therein so that the board is wrapped by the plate and the position member is engaged with a periphery defining the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Inventor: Fuji Wu
  • Patent number: 5058403
    Abstract: A washboard attachment for pre-laundering a garment is adapted for use with a top loading automatic laundry machine with an upwardly directed rotor and a basin. The attachment has means which fit over the rotor and a ribbed portion which spans the basin to support legs which stand on the basin's rim. The support legs are of a length so as to cause the washboard attachment to be downwardly directed toward the basin. The attachment has curved sides to contain incidental washwater and direct it to the basin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Inventor: Albert T. Barnes
  • Patent number: 4102160
    Abstract: This is a washboard device intended for permanent attachment to an inner wall of a washbowl or washbasin for use in washing personal and small articles of clothing. It includes a sheet of semi-rigid material having a peelable protected adhesive back coating and a front washboard surface. The washboard surface may be corrugated with alternate rounded ridges and intervening furrows in the preferred form. Alternately, it may include any type surface having a plurality of hills and valleys, in any regular or irregular pattern or spaced dots of material on a flat surface, etc. It is made of a suitable semi-rigid material in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and can be made to conform to any size or shape basin wall, the material being a suitable plastic such as polyurethane, polyvinyl, semi-hard rubber. The edge of the sheet is preferably feathered and may be readily installed in operative position by the average person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Inventor: George J. Herbst