US3039125A - Stainless steel scouring pads - Google Patents

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June 19, 1962 A. BENJAMIN STAINLESS STEEL SCORING PADS Filed May 25, 1959 INVENTOR. ALFRED BENJAMIN ATTOEJVEV United States 3,039,125 STAINLESS STEEL SCOURING PADS Alfred Benjamin, 129 W. 120th St, New York, N.Y. Filed May 25, 1959, Ser. No. 815,358 1 Claim. (Cl. 15-418) This invention concerns an improvement in scouring pads.

According to the invention there is provided a two-ply scouring pad made of interwoven or intermeshed stainless steel wool, one side or ply of the pad having one grade of coarseness and the other side or ply having a difierent grade of coarseness. A plastic disk is preferably placed between the plies centrally of the pad. Woven steel wool arms extend from the pad to which rings are secured to serve as supporting and fastening members for the pad.

It is a principal object of the invention to provide a metal wool pad having different grades of coarseness of mesh on opposite sides and provided with means to attach the pad to the hand of the user.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a scouring pad embodying one form of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on the plane of the line 22 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the pad of FIG. 1, on an enlarged scale.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the scouring pad applied to the hand of a user.

Referring to FIGS. 1-4, there is shown a scouring pad having a substantially rectangular two-ply body formed of intermeshed or woven stainless steel wool or wire. One side or ply 12 is woven of fine steel wool or wire in a close weave to provide a rather fine grade of abrasiveness. The other side or ply 14 is woven of heavier wire in a coarser weave to provide a coarse grade of abrasiveness. The side or ply 14 is faster cutting for removing rather large masses of debris from the walls of pots of aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, ceramic, porcelain and the like. The side or ply 12 acts as a polishing 3,039,125 Patented June 19, 1962 means to provide a fine polish on the walls of a pot which has first been cleaned by the coarser side 14. Heretofore to accomplish these cleaning and polishing operations it has been necessary to employ two or more scouring pads of different grades of abrasiveness to accomplish what is performed by the single pad described. A plastic or metal disk 16 is inserted between the plies of material, centrally of the pad. A pair of arms 18 and 20 extend from diagonally opposed corners of the body 10 and carried on the outer ends of said arms are split rings 18 and 20.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and that various changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A scouring pad, comprising a fiat rectangular body having two plies interwoven at mar-gins thereof to form a pocket therebetween, a rigid disk disposed in said pocket to stiffen the body, one of said plies being a fine woven wire mesh, the other of said plies being a coarse woven mesh, a pair of integrally woven arms extending outwardly from diagonally opposite corners of said body, and split rings on ends of the arms adapted to be engaged with each other to form the arms into a loop for bold ing the pad on the hand of a person using the same.

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