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A battery post and terminal cleaner includes a hollow base with a hollow mandrel in the base with a space around the mandrel. A scraper element is disposed in the space between the mandrel and the outer surface of the base. The outer portion of the base houses the scraper blade. A reamer extends from...     

A tool for cleaning dry and wet dirt has a handle carrying a Piassava type brush and a rubber scraping element or squeegee. The handle is secured to a flange having a coaxial extension fitting through an oblique hole in the brush head. The extension protrudes on the underside and is fitted with a wedge...     

A ski boot snow scraper is attached to one of a skier's ski poles and is readily available to remove the caked snow from the bottom of a ski boot so that the ski boot can be properly and safely placed and clamped within the bindings of the ski.

A combined toothbrush whistle having a bristle portion and a shaft with a cover adapted to fit over the slide relative to the shaft. The cover has an opening in the cover wall for producing musical notes and a sheath located at one end of the cover for covering the bristle portion.

A flat sheet metal plate defining a reference plane on one side. Said plate having first and second sections and an intermediate section. The first and second sections being flat and in a common plane, and the intermediate section formed into a semi-circular loop with a center portion of the loop removed....     

The disclosure concerns an improved scheme for storing a dust pan on a push broom which is suitable for use with ordinary, commercially available push brooms, and which facilitates mounting and dismounting of the dust pan. The new scheme employs a dust pan having a channel-shaped handle which is adapted...     

A window cleaning device consisting of a sponge, a head for supporting the sponge and a stiffener web for stiffening the sponge and securing the sponge with respect to the head. The stiffener has a pair of ridges which are located within a channel formed in the head in a face-to-face relationship with...     

A wax applicator for skis comprising a block of generally abrasive material such as cork and a sheet of relatively hard material such as acrylic plastic secured face-to-face to serve as a wax spreader and smoother. The sheet extends past one edge of the block and the edge of the sheet extending past...     

A scrubbing implement for an oven including a handle having telescoping portions which are locked together in adjusted relation to conform to the overall depth of the oven, means for rotatably mounting the handle on an elongated base and clamping the handle at a relative angle to the base so the implement...     

A hand held golf club tool is provided which is useful to clean mud and debris from the head of a golf club. The tool includes a flat portion on one end to scrape mud and debris from flat portions of the head and is provided with separated raised rib portions on the other end to clean mud and debris...     

A sweeping broom of the type having a brush or head attached to a handle is combined with a flexible dustpan that is slidable along the broom handle and has a shape conforming to the curvature of the brush. When engaged on the broom handle, the dustpan can be positioned against the rear face of the brush...     

A tool for scraping the wires or rods constituting a barbeque grill or the like. The tool has a handle terminating in a stiff extension having a U-shaped distal end. A wheel is pivotably secured at its center to said extension and has a plurality of U-shaped indentations of different widths. The wheel...     

A label removing device of the type primarily intended for use in removing adhesive labels from a substrate, including a unitary body portion having first and second scrapers disposed at opposite ends thereof. The first scraper is specifically designed and constructed for removing labels from a relatively...     

A tool for scraping coatings such as paint or paper from walls and similar surfaces comprises a housing with a flat guide face designed to come to rest against a surface to be scraped, two lateral housing walls extending beyond a transverse edge of that guide face and carrying a blade swingably mounted...     

A hand tool especially adapted for cleaning automotive windows and windshields has a plate set in the head of a handle and provided with an ice-scraping edge. A squeegee, also set in the head, has a blade for wiping away slush and fog as well as ice broken loose by the edged plate. The rigid plate has...     

A combination scoop and plunger for corralling refuse in a kitchen sink and forcing it through the drain opening into the garbage disposal area, comprising a single molded plastic scoop and bellows arrangement, having within its hollow portion a hollow plunger whose neck portion is removably connected...     

A snow scraper attached to a ski pole shaft includes an elongated member having an exterior surface and a wall. The ski pole shaft extends through a longitudinally oriented, cylindrical channel in the member. The member has a substantially planar exterior surface portion oriented tangentially to the...     

A chipper head is removably affixed to the holder head of a welding rod holder in an area spaced from and opposite the point of support of a welding rod whereby the welding rod holder functions as a combination welding rod holder and chipper hammer.

A one-piece tool for removing tangles of weeds, grasses and associated debris from the rotatable earth-working tines of a rotary soil tiller has a pair of spaced coplanar cutting blades extending outwardly from one end of an intermediate elongate handle portion. In cross section, each blade has the shape...     

A device for clearing plugged garbage chutes is specially constructed to make it adaptable for use in multi-story buildings, such as apartment houses, having vertical chutes extending through several stories down to a receptacle in the basement of the building. The clogging of these chutes is generally...     

A paint scraper has a blade holding portion, having a slot in which is releasably mounted a paint scraper blade. The blade has a pair of different, opposed paint scraping edges. The first edge is straight and smooth, and is used for fine scraping work. The second is toothed, serrated and is used for...     

A grill cleaning tool is provided having a tubular body which forms a handle. A projection from one end of the handle is formed integrally with the handle from a length of steel tubing. The end of the projection is beveled to form a sharp angle. A groove is provided in the extreme end of the projection...     

An elongated preferably plastic handle has a sleeve lock on the tip end. When a twisted wire brush is placed in the handle, there is a guy wire effect from the sleeve which holds the brush firmly in place, as the sleeve stretches slightly over a bent end of the twisted wire of the brush. The inventive...     

A floor laying tool utilized in installing synthetic floor materials such as vinyl sheet flooring adjacent walls. This floor laying tool is used to lay vinyl type flooring materials on a subfloor. The tool includes a handle, a downwardly projecting shaft connected to one end of the handle, and a working...     

Apparatus for cleaning a toilet bowl which comprises a generally u-shaped member having first and second legs which are joined by an arcuate axial portion. The first leg has a sharp point thereon and a weight is disposed on the second leg. An elongated flexible member is fixed to the free end of the...     

A multi-purpose tool adapted particularly for use with automotive vehicles and having a handle and an ice breaker arranged in such relation to each other and to a brush, a shoe scraper, a snow scraper and a squeegee as to be most convenient for use. When the tool is held manually by the handle with the...     

An attachment for windshield wiper blades for vehicles and comprising a body member having an elongated slot or recess provided therein for removably receiving the wiper blade, the outer surface of the body oppositely disposed from the recess being of an arcuate cross sectional configuration whereby...     

Disclosed is a multi-purpose garbage disposal utensil for sweeping garbage into a garbage disposer, and for safely agitating garbage to speedup and unclog feed of garbage into a garbage disposer, and for plugging a sink drain hole above a garbage disposer.

A de-icing device comprises a lighter and a flame tube inserted thereon and provided with aligned openings through which a key can be inserted for exposure to the heat of the lighter flame. The lighter and the flame tube are partially accommodated in housing; the parts of the lighter and the flame tube...     

A floor mop provided with an attachment carrying an abrasive pad on one side and a semi-abrasive pad on the other side of the mop swab. The pads are of rectangular shape and are connected to part of the mop strands in such a way that each pad remains flat and applies substantial equal pressure to a floor...     

An apparatus for remotely cleaning an overhead gutter (10) includes a first and a second fork (17, 25) disposed near the top of an elongated handle (15). The first fork (17) is stationary with respect to the handle (15) and is slid along the interior of the gutter. The second fork (25) is adapted for...     

To facilitate the removal of heavy accumulations of snow from vehicle surfaces, a roughly triangular sweeping head is secured to a manipulating handle and can be reciprocated along the axis of the handle or swung from side-to-side in a wide sweeping arc. Rubber-like blades attached to the three sides...     

A paint applicator cleaning tool for cleaning painting equipment, such as a paint roller, paint pads, and paint pans. The tool comprises a flat base having a first side with a first arcuate notch having an uninterrupted edge and curved to substantially conform to the outer periphery of a portion of a...     

An applicator for mascara eyebrow lotion or the like comprising a handle having a stem at the free end of which is an applicator. The applicator comprises a flexible tape element secured to the stem and carrying a plurality of filaments projecting from the tape element and a comb. The filaments are of...     

A unitary molded plastic bottle cleaning device, particularly adapted to cleaning catsup bottles but also usable for jelly jars and other small bottles, comprises an elongated shaft having a thin, relatively flat primary scraper blade of generally triangular peripheral configuration mounted on and extending...     

A hand operated magnetic sweeper comprises a longitudinally elongated, reinforced body member molded in one piece of non-magnetic material with wheels mounted for rotation on the longitudinal ends thereof, the body including a handle socket on its top side arranged to support a handle for angular extension...     

The thread conditioning device is for rotational movement about a threaded bolt to remove corrosion and debris and to otherwise condition the bolt threads for further use. The device or chaser includes a body having an opened and generally C-shaped configuration when viewed cross sectionally to its axis...     

An improved battery post and terminal cleaner is comprised of at least two longitudinal blade members each having an outside scraping surface on one end and an inside scraping surface at the opposite end. The blade members are housed in a body member in which they slide in unison to adjust the spacing...     

A base assembly is provided for support from a suitable support surface and the base assembly includes a raised central portion spaced inwardly of the outer peripheral portions of the base assembly and provided with horizontally spaced apart tufts of upstanding bristles supported therefrom. The upper...     

A combination scraper and keycase having a hollow body providing a compartment for keys, coins or the like and a pair of blades swingably mounted on the body for movement between positions housed in the body and extended operable positions in which the blade cooperatively forms an elongated scraping...     

A multistate precipitation removal tool designed to remove light ice, snow, slush and liquid water from delicate surfaces and to polish frost thereon without harming such surfaces. Materials of appropriate hardness and flexibility over a broad range of temperature have been located and incorporated into...     

An improved garbage disposal utensil for use with a garbage disposal. A circular member is provided which has a stopper lip to seal the disposal drain hole and flexible lobes on the circular member to hold the lip out of sealing relationship with the drain hole. A recessed handle is provided in a recess...     

A duster-polisher having at least one pocket with or without bottom, made of plastic film, one face thereof being coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive to define a dust collecting adhesive layer, which is, in turn, protected with a back face of a polisher, with an alienating adhesive layer interposed...     

An adjustable tool is provided which includes a selectively positionable and lockable handle. The tool includes a main housing having a handle shaft axially directed transversely of the housing and a handle being rotatably mounted to the handle shaft for selective rotational movement about the handle...     

A device for removing snow and ice from a vehicle windshield and windows comprising a rigid, elongate handle having at one end a beveled edge and at the other end a handgrip and a mitt disposed about the handle and secured thereto at a position to cover the handgrip.

An ice scraper and breaker combination comprising a common hand-held blade scraper upon which is mounted, to the back of the body of the scraper, multiple sets of toothed rollers or disks which are used to break up the ice prior to scraping.

A generally cup shaped cutting head for fitting over and around the sprinker head includes a generally circular cutting edge for cutting around a sprinkler head, and a cleaning brush mounted concentrically within the cutting head and recessed from the cutting edge for engaging and cleaning the surface...     

A tool including a handle secured axially to a reversible face plate structure having a flat sheet metal body including a first portion with a half-round-curved edge or periphery adapted to fit into half-round gutters as well as a second portion with a more rectangular peripheral contour conforming or...     

A multi-purpose paint stick is described. The paint stick allows a painter to scrape paint from the inside of various size cans, to comb his paint brush to remove unwanted particles, to suspend a paint strainer over a can to mix paint, to measure exact amounts or proportional amounts of components of...     

A single tool, especially for use by gas welders, that combines a soapstone marker, a rotary spark igniter and a plurality of torch cleaning wires. The tool is of metal construction, of pencil-like shape, readily manually manipulable, and easily releasably carried in or on the clothing of a mechanic.

A submersible tool for reading water meters includes a cylindrical body member having a bottom end sealed with a sight glass. A brush is mounted to the body member adjacent the bottom end. The brush bristles are contoured to correspond to the shape or periphery of the water meter so as to aid in aligning...     

This invention is directed to a surface coatings applicator and applicator cleaning container assembly where in the applicator has a special contoured handle with several openings that aid in the proper cleaning/soaking of the applicator's bristles/filaments when used in conjunction with the special...     

A blanket cleaner for removing dust, lint or ink from a blanket cylinder in an offset printing press during the uninterrupted course of a press run. A first fluid cylinder periodically urges a brush against the blanket cylinder and retracts the brush from the blanket cylinder. Retraction of the brush...     

A device for sensing the amount of force applied to teeth during brushing. The device consists of a single toothbrush holder in which a toothbrush is pivotally supported by means of teeth and spring rib. A metal spring is arranged to provide an adjustable resistance force against pivotal movement of...     

A fabric currycomb or fuzz comb comprises a substantially flat handle base plate having a plurality of straight edges and a plurality of abrasive net strips of different abrasive capabilities supported on the straight edges, respectively, and having a multiplicity of small projections in a file pattern.

An electrically operated toothbrush comprises a housing with an electromotor inside the housing. The motor includes a rotatable shaft, means converting the rotary movement of the rotary shaft to an oscillatory movement of a brush support shaft which extends through the housing, and a toothbrush is attached...     

An elongated, preferably plastic handle has a sleeve lock on each of its opposite tip ends. When a twisted wire brush is placed in the handle and the sleeve is slipped over it, there is a guy wire effect from the sleeve which holds the brush firmly in place, as the sleeve stretches slightly over a bent...     

A hand-held ice scraper having an elongate handle portion and a blade attached to one end thereof. The scraping blade is substantially J-shaped and comprises dual outwardly flared scraping arms, one of which is longer and wider than the other. One of the scraping arms has a scraping surface with a smooth,...     

The invention relates to a window cleaning device in which a cleaning member having a squeegee and scraper arranged along opposite longitudinal edges thereof is in the form of a U-shaped channel in which the handle and a retainer for the handle are pivotally arranged and compactly positioned, when not...     

A music tooth brush comprises a hollow brush hair stock, a touch switch containing the hollow part of said brush hair stock, a brush hair board floatingly mounted on the brush hair stock, and a hollow grip handle bar containing the music IC, batteries and sound-generating plate. When the user brushes...     

A safety device for protecting ones' hands while stuffing waste material into the comminuting chamber of a powered disposer having its comminuting chamber aligned with a drain passage enclosed by a flanged sleeve depending from the sink basin through its drain opening and from which the powered disposed...     

An ice scraper includes a unitary body having opposite alternate scraping edges to facilitate the removal of frost, ice, and snow from automobile windows. The device is also equipped with a contoured hand grip edge and an opposed squeegee edge. One scraping edge is fixed and provides both a straight...     

A butterfly-type sponge mop with presser plates and an actuating member pivotal relative to a center block. The mop includes a top center block which when interlocked with a bottom center block forms a plurality of bearing surfaces to enable motion of the presser plates about a transverse axis and motion...     

A finishing tool for trowelling and sweeping the surface of freshly laid concrete slab. The tool includes a trowel member having a front edge and a rear edge; an elongated handle; bracket structure for attaching the handle to the trowel member and for allowing the trowel member to be tilted with the...     

A scraper for cleaning an obscuring coating off a game card or lottery ticket. The scraper has a scraper blade on one end and a brush on the other comprised of a rabbit's foot allowing the scraper blade to be used by holding the foot as a handle and the brush to be used by holding the scraper blade as...     

A multi-purpose cleaning utensil capable of being compactly stored away. A tubular housing of sufficiently large inner diameter coaxially houses a handle member and a mop support member. The tubular housing member in turn is rigidly mounted to a dust collector member that also receives a broom head member....     

A brush device having a head, a handle associated with the head, a light source in the handle, and a source for energizing the light source. The brush device also includes a plurality of plastic filaments each having one end position disposed in the handle and adjacent the light source and the other...     

A scraper for removing material, adhered to a surface, in strips. The scraper has a front scraping edge and at least one cutting edge at one end of the scraping edge. The cutting edge extends generally transverse to the scraping edge.

The handle part (2) of a toothbrush houses means which emit acoustic signals in the audible range of the human ear. The means are a chip (3), a battery (4), a sound generator (5), a sound amplifier (6) and a switch (7). By incorporating other similar means, the emission of visual signals is produced....     

An apparatus for removing debris from a turbomachine. The apparatus includes housing and remotely operable viewing and grappling mechanisms for the purpose of locating and removing debris lodged between adjacent blades in a turbomachine.

A snow removal device for a vehicle comprises an elongated casing provided adjacent to and extending along a lower edge section of a window glass and having a snow guide channel therethrough, a snow intake port facing the lower edge section and a pair of snow discharge ports each formed at either end...     

Disclosed is an improved painting roller comprising a frame having a first end and a second end, a roller core rotatably engaged on the first end of the frame, a pad carried on the roller core and a handle connected to the second end of the frame, characterized in that said handle further includes a...     

This tooth brush is designed to effectively clean a person's teeth by rotation. Primarily, it consists of an electric motor in a housing that is hand held, and a flexible brush stem is received in the shaft of the motor and includes bristles that are radially disposed on the other end of the flexible...     

An attachment is disclosed for a squeeze mop of the type having a mop handle, a water-like absorbent member or sponge at one end of the handle, and a mechanism for squeezing the water absorbent member so as to release the water contained therein. In one embodiment of the invention, the attachment comprises...     

A device which has wheels is provided that has a removable disc with blades such that when the disc is placed in a certain position the device acts as a pushbroom, and when the disc is continously rotated, the device can act as a dustpan as well as a dustmop.

The tooth brush comprises a figurehead detachably fixed to a handle. The head contains a module with at least one pushbutton, a loudspeaker, a digital sound generator and a battery (19). When the button is pressed, a tune is generated by the sound generator for a particular period of time and played...     

An auxiliary road wiper plow for a motor vehicle is provided and consists of an arm member pivotally connected at one end to underside of an auxiliary frame member which is mounted to underside of frame of the motor vehicle forward of a wheel. A road engageable member is connected to other end of the...     

A blanket cleaner for removing dust, lint or ink from a blanket cylinder in an offset printing press during the uninterrupted course of a press run. A first fluid cylinder periodically urges a brush against the blanket cylinder and retracts the brush from the blanket cylinder. Retraction of the brush...     

A tool for cleaning grooves having different cross-sectional profiles formed in the face of golf clubs which may also be used as a ball marker, for tightening cleats and repairing ball marks.

A cleaning tool particularly for removing snow and ice from cars and other vehicles has brushes which can be disposed perpendicularly or parallel to the tool handle. A handle mounted device allows easy interchange from one position to the other.

A litter picking device in the form of a housing having at least one downwardly protruding spike and an upwardly extending handle secured thereto is provided with a knock-off plate slidable relative to the spike. According to one embodiment, the knock-off plate is connected to a rod which extends telescopically...     

A brush for cleaning the top surface of beverage cans has a cylindrical body member having a central longitudinal bore. A handle on a first end face of the body has a slotted portion for lifting pull tabs of beverage cans and a bottle opener. A plurality of bristles are secured on a second end face of...     

A manually usable hand tool having, in preferred form, a frame of substantially rectangular closed loop configuration. Squeegee and ice scraper blades are fixed to one frame end, and a brush is fixed to an adjacent frame side. A handle is pivotally connected to the frame, and is movable between a storage...     

A litter pick-up conversion kit for a butterfly-type sponge mop is provided whereby hooks or spikes may be secured to the pivoted operating plates of the sponge mop in lieu of the sponge so as to engage and pick up litter upon pivotal movement of the operating plates. The litter pick-up conversion kit...     

A carpet sweeper for removing metallic staples, paper clips and the like from carpet wherein a semi-circular wire mesh fabric is secured to the forward end of a housing or base member and a magnet is secured to the bottom of the base member and extends along the trailing edge of the wire mesh fabric....     

An ice and snow clearing device includes a brush, a heating element, a scraper and means for electrically powering the heating element. The sweeping member brushes snow or ice from the surface that is to be cleared. The scraper is connected to the rear of the brush to remove snow or ice remaining in...     

A snow removal device for removing snow from a vehicle is provided. The snow removal device includes a brushing portion and a plowing portion, generally disposed at one end of an elongated handle and extending generally parallel thereto. The plowing means facilitates the removal of relatively heavy snow,...     

A cap formed of terry cloth fabric is dimensioned to fit over the head of a sponge mop and cover its sponge element as well as the peripheral edges of a sponge element attachment plate. The terry cloth fabric includes loose cotton loops projecting from both sides of a ground farbic. An elastic band is...     

A tool for scraping a grill of the type having a plurality of spaced apart parallel grill rods is disclosed. The scraper includes an elongated handle having a flat rectangular scraper member transversely attached to one end of the handle. The scraper member includes at least one access slot opening at...     

A standard toilet bowl brush, having a wire loop frame, sometimes lying in a slightly curved plane, supporting encompassing bristles, and with an elongated handle, is converted, temporarily, into a steel wool brush by an adaptor spider which embraces the larger dimension of the brush and projects a forwardly...     

An apparatus is set forth wherein a cleaning fabric includes a flexible fabric sheet including an abrasive face and a soft cleansing face for the polishing and cleansing of associated golf balls. The cleansing fabric includes modifications that provides for a peel-away package insert of a cleansing solution,...     

A pocket-size coin holder in which the coin is principally used as a golf ball marker. The holder has a relatively small metallic body punched from sheet metal. A shallow coin-retaining cup is stamp-formed at a central portion of the body. A coin-retaining bridging pin, which is capable of flexing laterally,...     

This invention concerns accessories for use with painting tools. Such an accessory may comprise an elongate member having means to suspend a paint brush vertically into an open topped vessel, means to scrape excess paint out of a paint roller, and a means for cleaning out grooves around the rim of a...     

A pine needle cutting apparatus for removal of pine needles trapped in screening, comprising a tool head having a removably attached cutting blade, brush, and handle connector to which a handle may be removably fastened. The cutting blade has opposing ends, a front portion, a rear portion, two arcuate...     

Invention embodiments comprise two separate and distinct parts, a mop support device and a cap embodying a tubular portion defining a through passage which is tapped intermediate its ends, to enable a secure balanced connection thereof to a mop handle. In the embodiment illustrated the mop support device...     

A kit arrangement includes an elongate handle, including a first and second section angularly offset relative to one another to enhance access to an interior surface of a lawn mower surface, with a scraping head mounted to the handle, incuding a chisel and serrated scraping edge mounted to a leg of the...     

A system is provided for cleaning paint brushes whose bristles have, from use, developed liquefied accumulations thereon of an oil base paint. A plurality of transparent vessels, each containing the same liquid solvent, are supported in a first predetermined serial relationship such that a paint brush...     

Device for removing fiber pills and lint from a fabric in which a supporting substrate has affixed on one surface an abrasive coating of substantially uniform particles lying in the range of 280-600 grit size for removing pills and on another surface a fabric with a slant, hook or loop pile to remove...     

A dental hygiene apparatus for removing plaque which is to connect with the handle of a conventional toothbrush with the toothbrush being used as the instrument to remove plaque. The handle is mounted through the open end of a cylindrical sleeve-like handle that is of a size to be readily graspable by...     

The present invention relates to a novelty toothbrush. The toothbrush has a plastic member with a plurality of aligned holes at one end, a head and face portion at a second end and an integral handle for grasping the toothbrush. The toothbrush further has a series of bristles positioned within the holes...