Inventors:
Baxter I. Scoggin - Kansas City MO
Woodrow E. Vaughan - Independence MO
Gerald D. Reed - Independence MO
Don W. Cartner - Kansas City MO
David E. Hill - Gardner KS
Jack E. Briar - Gardner KS
Assignee:
Modern Plastic Sales - Independence MO
International Classification:
A46B 704
A46B 902
Abstract:
A carpet care tool beautifies, fluffs and cleans carpet fibers by brushing its relatively short, densely disposed and uniformly slanted filaments against the carpet fibers in one direction as the tool is drawn in a sweeping stroke in pressing engagement with the carpet. Pushing the tool in the opposite direction while pressed against the carpet quickly dislodges the entrapped foreign matter such as lint, hairs, threads and dust particles so they can be quite easily picked up and discarded. The specially contoured brushing head, together with its resilient padding arrangement to give uniform deflection over the entire working surface of the head, plus trilobed slanted filaments of the brush fabric itself, all cooperate to provide a well-groomed, beautifully finished carpet appearance not possible with mere vacuuming techniques.