US 12,245,682 B2
Powered toilet bowl brush
Freeman Gormany, Grand Prairie, TX (US)
Assigned to Freeman Gormany & Group Corporation
Filed by Freeman Gormany & Group Corporation, Lubbock, TX (US)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/742,582.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/205,663, filed on May 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0378186 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A46B 13/02 (2006.01); A47K 11/10 (2006.01)
CPC A46B 13/02 (2013.01) [A47K 11/10 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A powered toilet bowl brush, comprising:
a splash guard member comprising a planar plate having an exterior face and an opposing, parallel interior face, wherein the interior face is configured to rest directly atop a perimeter of a toilet bowl when in a working position, thereby preventing a gap between the splash guard member and the perimeter of the toilet bowl;
wherein the splash guard member entirely covers an opening of the toilet bowl in the working position;
a brush assembly disposed on a first side of the splash guard member;
a housing extending from a second side of the splash guard member, wherein the housing comprises a door along a vertical sidewall that allows access to an interior volume thereof;
a shaft extending from the housing and through the splash guard member, wherein a distal end of the shaft is secured to the brush assembly;
a motor is disposed within the housing and operably connected to the shaft to move the shaft between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration;
wherein the shaft is configured to move the brush assembly between the extended configuration and the retracted configuration along a vertical axis via the motor, the vertical axis being coaxial with the shaft;
wherein, in the retracted configuration and extended configuration, a scrubber of the brush assembly is adapted to engage a lateral side of the toilet bowl;
wherein the scrubber is composed of a flexible fiber adapted to hang downward under gravitational force when the brush assembly is not in motion and upon activation of the brush assembly, the scrubber extends outward along a horizontal axis due to centrifugal force.