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Granted Patent B2
US 7,020,926 · App. 11/116,899 · Granted Apr 4, 2006

Lint roller/brush assembly

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,020,926
App. No.
11/116,899
Granted
Apr 4, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A lint/pet hair roller assembly includes a body supporting a tubular adhesive lint remover roller and/or a stationary directional lint brush fabric. The assembly includes a handle section and a roller support section. The support section has an outer diameter less than the diameter of the adhesive lint roll or a directional fabric wrapped about the support section. The elongated handle section receives a separate rubber cushion and an optional decorative top including a hanger. Alternately, an arm projects from the body and receives an additional cleaning element. Alternately, a dispenser is carried on the handle for dispensing fluid from a storage chamber carried in the handle. Alternately, a squeegee is alternately carried in the support.

Claims (15)

1. A lint/roller brush apparatus comprising:

a body having a handle with an outer surface portion and a support portion;

a selectively removable rotatable tape roll;

first and second spaced bearing ridges outwardly extending from said support portion for selectively supporting said rotatable tape roll thereabout and spaced from said outer surface; and

a fabric mounted on said outer surface of said support portion and between said bearing ridges.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said ridges are annular bearing ridges.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein said tape roll includes an inner sleeve.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein said tape roll sleeve slidingly engages said bearing ridges.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said fabric is a directional fabric.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein said fabric is designed to be drawn in one direction across a surface to pick up debris and to be drawn in a second substantially opposite direction to remove collected debris.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said fabric is frictionally mounted to said outer surface of said support portion.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said fabric is adhesively mounted to said outer surface of said support portion.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said support portion is tubular in configuration.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said support portion includes a plurality of fingers at one end thereof for selectively capturing said supported tape roll.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said tape roll comprises a plurality of outwardly facing adhesive sheets of strips wound in a roll in which the outermost sheet or strip is peelable one at a time.