Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6739782 | Oral cleaning device with internal water bladder A handheld portable oral cleaning device that includes a refillable internal bladder, which a user is able to fill with a liquid. The bladder is preferably an expandable but resilient latex rubber. One end of the bladder is accessible to the user, such that the user... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6318380 | Brush having powder tube and slidable brush guide A cosmetic brush having a powder tube, the powder tube being made of an elastic material, for accommodating powder, and the brush being installed at the upper portion of the powder tube, for uniformly applying powder sprayed from the powder tube to the fa... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6027272 | Fluid delivery system A hand-held fluid delivery system includes a rigid body, a collapsible enclosure within the body, a fluid (e.g., correction fluid) within the enclosure, and a delivery end in communication with the collapsible enclosure. The delivery system preferably inc... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5927884 | Disposable perfume stick A perfume stick having a fragile core tube holding a liquid perfume and mounted in a flexible plastic outer tube, the flexible plastic outer tube having a bottom end covered with a cotton tip, the liquid perfume flowing out of the core tube to the cotton ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5918995 | Toothbrush with pump A pump toothbrush includes a brush portion, a grip portion and an intermediate arm portion. The grip portion includes a container portion for dental cleansing medium and is connected to the brush portion by way of a pump device to feed the dental cleansin... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5865551 | Cleaning device with replaceable cleaning fluid reservoir A cleaning device includes a cleaning head, such as a mop, for cleaning surfaces. The device includes an elastically expandable reservoir for storing cleaning fluid. The reservoir is enclosed within a replaceable cartridge fitting within the handle of the... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5827001 | Brush having displacement member forcing material into bristles A brush, in particular a toothbrush, comprises a head (20) including a plurality of bristles (24) thereon and having at least one opening (26) therein feeding to the bristles (24), a container (2) of paste (4) connected to the head (20), and a control mem... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5650806 | Ink jet nozzle/valve, pen and printer An ink jet printer or a pen has a nozzle or valve (4) formed by an orifice in an elastic material (1), and the orifice comprising a slit or hole (9) in the elastic material deformable to cause the slit or hole to open or close to eject ink (2) under press... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5000602 | Paint applicator A paint applicator having a housing containing a paint bag, such housing having a flexible and removable face plate and a pressure plate adapted to apply pressure to the paint bag to force paint through openings in the bag aligned with openings in the fac... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4997301 | Fountain pen A fountain pen includes a fountain pen barrel, an ink tube fixed inside the pen barrel, a stopper means fixed inside said pen barrel to hold the ink tube in place, and a fountain pen head joined to the other end. A pressing force applied to an urging mean... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4875602 | Self-contained liquid dispensing device A liquid dispensing apparatus includes a self-contained source of fluid normally isolated within a reservoir bulb which is deformable to initially rupture a membrane allowing the fluid to be forced in an axial direction through a shaft bore to saturate a ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4775256 | Hand-held personal hygiene device Hand-held device for personal hygiene purposes dispensing a cosmetic and/or cleansing agent with an exchangeable container containing said agent, an exchangeable container being positionable within the hand-held device.... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4705420 | Cleaning system having cleaning fluid capsule A cleaning system utilizing a hollow bodied, disposable dispensing capsule or package comprising a storage chamber and integral dispensing chamber made of a plastic material. The package is connected to the system handle via a conical protrusion on the pa... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4640638 | Cleaning system A cleaning system (60) includes an elongate handle (61) having a surface cleaning means (65) disposed at one end of the handle and a cleaning fluid cartridge means (64) disposed at the other end of the handle. The cleaning system further includes a means ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4572691 | Pen-like instrument for applying correction fluid A pen-like instrument for dispensing correction fluid comprising an elongate housing, a bag of thin flexible polymeric film material containing correction fluid within a cavity in the housing, and an applicator tip assembly comprising a body secured to th... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4415288 | Liquid dispensing device with cartridge-rupturing member An improved liquid dispensing device having particular utility as a surgical scrub and/or swab unit is characterized by a cartridge which is slidable in a rigid handle and rupturably by a spike when slid within the handle to a predetermined degree. Fluid ... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4347010 | Cleaning device for eyeglasses A cleaning device for eyeglasses comprises an elongated casing having a circumferentially closed wall, open ends and removable upper and lower lids for closing said ends. A guide member conformed to the inner shape of the casing is longitudinally slidable... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4269527 | Applicator for pulverized substances An applicator for pulverizable substances. The applicator comprises, in co-operation, a resilient container for the pulverizable substance, a permeable membrane through which said substance passes and means for maintaining and releasing said substance.... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4181997 | Water-powered toothbrush with dentifrice attachment A tooth-brushing device comprising a brushing unit provided with rotating brushes, and a dentifrice-carrying cartridge unit. The cartridge unit is attachable to a water faucet and supports an impeller operated by water pressure to rotate the brushes. The ... | 01/08/1980 |
