Waterproof scrubbing glove

Abstract

A flexible waterproof scrubbing glove having a plurality of cavities for the thumb and fingers joined together to fit a person's hand. A layer of scrubbing bristles built into the entire palm surface and finger surface of the glove including the tips of the finger and thumb stalls, along the sides of the finger and thumb stalls, as well as along the side of the palm portion of the glove. The invention facilitating the cleaning of bath tubs and sinks with their awkward and hard to reach places as well as other surfaces and other cleaning actions.

Description

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0001] Many of today's devices that are used to clean and scrub surfaces are not attached to gloves; but are rather stand alone products, which require the user to grip them independently with their hands. A shortcoming associated with this is that the device has a tendency of slipping or falling out of the user's hand when cleaning. Another shortcoming with this is that when a user grips on to this device to clean a surface, extra pressure is required on the part of the user to scrub and clean the surface because of the added force needed to hold on to this device while at the same time applying sufficient pressure to clean a surface. This would be particularly difficult for someone who is suffering from joint problems, arthritis for example. [0002] Many of today's existing technologies of scrubbing brushes and similar cleaning devices have awkward shapes and limited flexibility. Bathtubs, tiles in bathrooms, and sinks for example, have hard to reach spaces ...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0005] The present invention is a waterproof scrubbing glove which has scrubbing bristles built into the structure of the glove, as to allow the user to perform a variety of cleaning actions without the need to grip onto an external cleaning device, such as a brush, thus preventing the items from falling out of the user's hand, preventing additional strain to the joints and necessitating less force on the part of the user to perform scrubbing actions. The glove is flexible and the scrubbing bristles cover the entire palm and finger portions of the glove, the sides of the palm and finger stalls, as well as the tips of the finger stalls thus facilitating the cleaning of hard to reach places and awkward spaces.

Problems solved by technology

A shortcoming associated with this is that the device has a tendency of slipping or falling out of the user's hand when cleaning.

This would be particularly difficult for someone who is suffering from joint problems, arthritis for example.

Many of today's existing technologies of scrubbing brushes and similar cleaning devices have awkward shapes and limited flexibility.

Bathtubs, tiles in bathrooms, and sinks for example, have hard to reach spaces and often awkward shapes.

Existing scrub brushes tend to have their bristles set on a hard surface which makes the overall brush inflexible, therefore very hard if not impossible to bend and flex to reach the awkward shapes and clean hard to reach spaces.

In addition to these standalone scrubbing devices, there are other cleaning devices that have attachments to mitts or gloves which fulfill their intended purpose, but which still expose shortcomings such as partial coverage on the glove limiting the effectiveness of the cleaning and the cleaning of hard to reach spaces; the materials used as attachments and the way in which the scouring device is attached.

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