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 Title: |
US4126962:
Plant care device
[ Derwent Title ]
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Polcaro, Arthur B.; West Newton, MA 02165
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1978-11-28
/ 1977-06-13
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| Application Number: |
US1977000806170
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A01G 7/06;
A01M 21/04;
A47L 25/00;
Core:
A01M 21/00;
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IPC-7:
A01G 1/00;
A47L 17/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A01G7/06; A01M21/04B; A47L25/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
047/001.5;
015/210.1;
015/244.2;
294/099.2;
0D7/686;
Original:
047/001.5;
015/210.R;
015/244.A;
294/099.R;
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| Field of Search: |
047/1 R,1.5
015/244 R,244 A,214,210 A,220 R,209 R,210 R
294/99 R,2,3,33
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| Priority Number: |
| 1977-06-13 |
US1977000806170 |
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| Abstract: |
A plant care device for cleaning and/or the application of fluids to the leaves of decorative foliage plants including a pair of opposed inwardly flexible arms connected at one end thereof for normal outwardly biased disposition with regard to each other in an open position of the device. The other ends of the arms are each provided with an enlarged generally flat headed portion in turn receiving at each inner surface thereof, a fluid absorbable pad, said pads adapted to close upon each other in the closed position of the device with a plant leaf interposed therebetween. The flexibility of the arms enables the device to be gently closed upon the leaf and accordingly enable the cleaning or fluid application tasks to be accomplished without tearing or otherwise breaking a leaf.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Doherty, Robert J. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Burr, Edgar S.; Bratlie, Steven A.
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| Family: |
None
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| Claim |
What is claimed is:
1. A device for the cleaning and application of fluids to plant leaves and the like comprising a pair of substantially flat arms connected to each other at one end thereof and normally outwardly biased from each other about said connection in an open position, each of said arms terminating at the other end thereof in an enlarged substantially flat headed portion laterally offset in one direction only, said arms being a single integral strip of relatively thin non-rigid, soft resinous plastic material having a reverse bend at that end opposite said headed portions, said opposite end in the form of an integral U-shaped connection between said arms, portions of said strip forming said connection laterally offset at that side thereof corresponding to the side at which said headed portions are offset so as to form a hand grip, said arms having respectively first and second arm edges, said first and second arm edges being essentially entirely straight and movable from a normal disposition wherein said arms assume a progressively outwardly separated generally V-shaped configuration to a closed operative position wherein said arms are in parallel disposition to each other, said arms having a longitudinally directed outwardly extending central ridge to convey a stiffness to said arms, said ridge slightly inwardly flexible when said device is in said closed operative position, said headed portions forming a continuation of said first arm edges on one side thereof and being laterally offset therefrom in the direction of said second pair of arm edges and extending laterally outwardly beyond said second arm edges on the other side thereof, said headed portions of similar configuration and disposed in opposed disposition relative to each other, each of said headed portions being relatively large and having lateral and longitudinal dimensions which are both substantially greater than the lateral extent of said arms, each headed portion further having a fluid absorbable pad attached to the inner surface thereof, said pads each of an area substantially equal to that of said headed portions and each of a thickness about one half the extent between said arms when disposed in said closed operative position, said pads closing upon one another upon movement of said arms to said closed operative position whereby a plant leaf and the like disposed between said pads is simultaneously contacted thereby on opposite upper and lower surfaces thereof, said arms being formed from relatively thin flexible material and generally longitudinally centrally disposed portions of said arms being inwardly flexible towards each other in said closed operative position and when said pads contact each other whereby soft contact of said plant leaves is provided so as to reduce the likelihood of tearing or breaking said leaves.
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