A brush comprises a frame, able to move in a substantially horizontal plane. A driving device is provided to cause the frame to oscillate in the horizontal plane. From the frame hangs a number of flexible straps which wipe over the vehicle and effect a cleaning action.

Brushes, e.g. a brush, particularly a hygienic brush, or a paintbrush, which is exposed to moisture during use and which has a bristle carrier, preferably made from plastic, and a bristle facing. The entire bristle facing is formed from individual, closely standing, non-contacting bristles.

A light weight animal grooming brush has a contoured gripping handle and head attached to the handle having a working surface carrying grooming implements such as tines. The working surface is contoured and is disposed at an angle to the handle.

A brush composed of slim rectangular segments hinged together at their edges with bristles protruding from the hinged edges such that when the segments are folded together accordion style the bristles stick out for brushing. Simultaneously the segments act as a backing and grip. When the segments are unfolded, oriented edge to edge, the bristles interdigitate flush against the segments leaving the entire brush thin, flat, flexible, and easily stored or carried, e.g. as in a pants pocket or purse...

This invention relates to retractable brushes, of the general type having bristles which can be retracted into the casing of the brush, or moved outwardly from the casing into the position at which the bristles are used. Wiping flaps are provided on a retractable brush to engage and wipe the bristles as they are extended and retracted through the openings in the front wall of the brush. The wiping flaps may take the form of a thin membrane extending across each of the openings and formed with sl...

An electrical brush is constructed by moulding an aligned array of metal coated carbon fibres into a block. The block may be several times the required length and width of a brush, in which case it is then cut into strips corresponding to the desired length of a brush. The coating is then removed for part only of the lengths of the brushes to expose the individual carbon fibres at one end but leaving them consolidated for connection to a conductor at the other end. The strips are finally cut up ...

A retractable brush in which the bristles can be retracted inside the brush body or extended therefrom by means of a bristle mounting member which is reciprocable inside the brush body and is movable between a retracted or extended position by means of a positional support member. The bristle mounting member is held in a preferred position by a locking means which automatically engages the positional support member when the bristles are extended. The positional support member is disposed such th...

A liner brush having a central and a peripheral tuft of hairs. The central tuft projects beyond the peripheral tuft and has a cross sectional area, perpendicular to the length of the brush, which is substantially less than that of the peripheral tuft. Consequently, only the central tuft is used for drawing thin lines, whereas the peripheral tuft serves as a reservoir storing the material to be applied.

A rotatable brush suitable for removing growths and encrustations from submerged surfaces comprises a support, bristles attached to one face of the support adjacent to the periphery thereof and extending away from said one face, and a flexible or elastic membrane surrounding the bristles and which extends substantially from the support to substantially within 10 mm to 40 mm from the free ends of the bristles remote from said one face. The support may have one or more orifices each perforating bo...

A compact portable pocket brush has retractable bristles arrayed in groups attached to a plurality of bristle group holders or supports mounted upon pivot pins in a brush case. The top wall of the case has a plurality of downwardly sloping apertures respectively located in alignment with each bristle group in the brush. The bristle group pivot pins are pivotably mounted upon a slide in the bottom of the case. When the slide is moved between two positions, each bristle group is pivoted between a ...