US 12,390,086 B2
Hand-held cleaning tool for front-loading washing machines
Amber Bourque, Maurice, LA (US)
Filed by Amber Bourque, Maurice, LA (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/404,888.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/067,253, filed on Aug. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0053921 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 25/00 (2006.01); A46B 5/02 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01); D06F 39/06 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 25/00 (2013.01) [A46B 5/026 (2013.01); A46B 15/0081 (2013.01); D06F 39/06 (2013.01); A46B 2200/3073 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning tool, comprising:
(a) an elongated handle having a first end, a second end, and a grip extending between said first end and said second end of said elongated handle;
(b) an elongated head having a first end, a second end, two sides, a back, a width measured from one of said two sides to the other of said two sides, and a tip at said second end of said elongated head, where said first end of said elongated head is longitudinally adjoined to said second end of said elongated handle, and where said two sides and said back of said elongated head extend from said first end of said elongated head to said second end of said elongated head;
(c) a horn protruding from said elongated head near said first end of said elongated head opposite of said back of said elongated head, where said horn has a leading edge that faces in the general direction of said second end of said elongated head, where said leading edge has a width that is substantially equal to said width between said two sides of said elongated head, where said horn extends longitudinally from said leading edge to a notch, where said notch is adjacent to said first end of said elongated head; and
(d) a first cleaning surface that extends longitudinally from said notch toward said second end of said elongated head to a shoulder, where said shoulder extends from said first cleaning surface substantially perpendicular to said first cleaning surface and toward said back of said elongated head to a second cleaning surface, where said second cleaning surface extends longitudinally from said shoulder toward said second end of said elongated head to said tip of said elongated head, and where said second cleaning surface is concave and extends laterally between said two sides of said elongated head.
 
8. A cleaning tool, comprising:
(a) an elongated handle having a first end, a second end, and a grip extending between said first end and said second end of said elongated handle;
(b) an elongated head having a first end, a second end, two sides, a back, a width measured from one of said two sides to the other of said two sides, and a tip at said second end of said elongated head, where said first end of said elongated head is longitudinally adjoined to said second end of said elongated handle, and where said two sides and said back of said elongated head extend from said first end of said elongated head to said second end of said elongated head;
(c) a horn protruding a height from said elongated head near said first end of said elongated head opposite of said back of said elongated head, where said horn has a leading edge that faces in the general direction of said second end of said elongated head, where said leading edge has a width that is substantially equal to said width between said two sides of said elongated head, where said horn extends longitudinally from said leading edge to a notch, where said horn has an inner surface that is concave, where said inner surface of said horn has a width that is substantially equal to said width between said two sides of said elongated head, and where said notch is adjacent to said first end of said elongated head;
(d) a first surface that extends longitudinally from said notch to said second end of said elongated head; and
(e) a set of bristles extending from said first surface of said elongated head in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to said first surface of said elongated head, where said set of bristles are attached to said first surface of said elongated head from a first point near said leading edge of said horn to a second point near said second end of said elongated head.