US1355391A - Cleaning device - Google Patents

Description

M. I. BOWLING.

CLEANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. I2. 1917.

1,355,391 I Patented Oct. 12,1920.

PATENT OFFICE.

MINNIE I. DO'WLING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLEANING DEVICE.

Application filed November 12, 1917.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MINNIE I. DOWLING, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved cleaning device in the form of a soap bar, having incorporated therewith means for burnishing so arranged as to act upon the surface duringthe cleaning operation; and to provide a device of this kind which is particularly suitable for manicuring purposes, the shape being such as will render it especially useful in cleaning and polishing the nails.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view of the improved cleaner in the form of a soap bar for manicuring the nails.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of the same.

In the specific embodiment shown, a quantity of soap or other cleansing compound is formed into a thin bar or tablet with a core of fibrous material which is substantially coextensive lengthwise with the tablet and is exposed at certain edges thereof, so that when in use, the exposed edge of the fibrous core gently rubs the surface on which the article is being used and has the effect of burnishing or polishing such surface. A quantity of finely powdered abrasive material may be mixed with the soap.

The form shown is particularly suitable for manicuring purposes and comprises an elongated flat and thin tablet 1 of soap. The core comprises one or more layers or strips of cardboard or other suitable material 2 embedded in the middle of the tablet with one or both of the ends of the core exposed (Fig. 1) but preferably with the side edges concealed, as shown in Fig. 2. The soap preferably has mixed with it an abrasive substance such as finely ground pumice, which, in acting with the soap, facilitates the cleaning operation. The paper core is preferably made of short-fiber ma- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Serial No. 201.519.

terial such as wood pulp, so that it' will wear away at the same rate as the stick of soap.

One end of the tablet is provided with an arcuate shaped depression 3, providing rounded corners 4, whereas the opposite end of the tablet is convex. This concave part 3 with the blunt-pointed corners 4L renders the tablet particularly suitable for cleaning and polishing the nails.

In using the device, the nails are moistened with water and then rubbed with either end of the bar. As the soap, coacting with the water and the abrasive, cleans the nail, the edge of the strip 2 scrubs the surface, facilitates the cleaning operation, and at the same time burnishes or polishes the nail.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been herein shown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a bar of cleansing compound having a core of fibrous material embedded therein, said bar having one end thereof formed with an arcuate-shaped depression.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bar of soap having a strip of stiff, flexible fibrous material embedded therein so as to form a core substantially coextensive with said bar, said bar having one end thereof formed with an arcuate-shaped depression.

3. A finger nail polisher, comprising a narrow flat stick of soap having a sheet of paper embedded therein, extending lengthwise thereof and exposed at one end.

4. A finger nail polisher, comprising a slender bar of soap having a sheet of paper embedded therein, extending lengthwise thereof and exposed at one end, the exposed end of said paper being adapted to wear at approximately the same rate as the soap when inuse.

Signed at Chicago this 14th day of September 1917.

MINNIE I. DOWLING.

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