An agitator for a vacuum cleaner includes an agitator body and a resiliently deformable flap. The resiliently deformable flap includes a front face, a rear face, and one or more protrusions extending outwardly from the front face. An agitator for a vacuum cleaner includes an agitator body and a bristle strip and/or a plurality of tufts arranged in one or more rows along the agitator body. The bristle strip and/or a plurality of tufts includes a first bristle group including a plurality of nylon bristles and at least a second bristle group including a plurality of para-aramid bristles.

Applicator for applying a product (F) to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows. The applicator includes an applicator member having a core extending along a longitudinal axis (Y), spikes that are carried by the core that have, in face-on view when viewed along the longitudinal axis (Y) of the core (10), a substantially triangular shape over at least 50% of their height (h), with a side that is oriented substantially radially, and have a cross section at the base of the spike taken perpendicularly to this side. satisfying the relationship e/L of between 0.4 and 0.6, where e denotes the thickness of the section measured in the direction of the longitudinal axis (Y) of the core and L denotes the width of the section measured in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (Y) of the core.

A head for a personal care device having a carrier including a front surface, at least one cleaning element partly embedded in the carrier and thus having an embedded cleaning element portion and a non-embedded cleaning element portion extending from the front surface of the carrier between a base end on the front surface and a free end; the embedded cleaning element portion extending from the front surface between a top end on the front surface and a bottom end, wherein the base end of the non-embedded cleaning element portion has a base end cross-sectional shape and a base end cross-sectional area, and the top end of the embedded cleaning element portion has a top end cross-sectional shape that is different to the base end cross-sectional shape and a top end cross-sectional area that is larger than the base end cross-sectional area.

A wafer cleaning apparatus includes: a brush, configured to wash a surface to be cleaned of a wafer; a base for carrying the brush, the base having at least one conductive disk, a disk surface of the conductive disk being parallel to the surface to be cleaned, and the base being able to rotate around an axis of the base; and a magnetic field generation structure configured to emit, to the conductive disk, a magnetic field perpendicular to the disk surface of the conductive disk, so that an induced electric field is generated in the conductive disk during the rotation of the base. The quality of wafer cleaning and the yield of wafer products can be improved.

A brush for removing cremated remains from a crematory oven is entirely formed of metal to resist the high temperatures of the oven and has two linear brush assemblies fixed to a top frame. A steel handle extends rearwardly from the frame for grasping by a brush operator. One of the linear brush assemblies has smaller diameter crimped stainless steel bristles and is positioned at the front of the brush, the other of the linear brush assemblies has larger diameter crimped stainless steel bristles and is fixed to the top frame rearward of the front brush assembly. Side brush assemblies extend sidewardly and upwardly of the other two. In operation the brush is inserted at the front of the oven and drawn rearwardly after the cremation such that the rear bristles encounter and withdraw the larger elements of the remains, and the front bristles encounter and withdraw the smaller elements.

A material comprising: a support 10; and a brush layer 20 containing a brush-like polymer chain assemblage 21 formed of a plurality of polymer chains and a swelling liquid 22, in which a brush layer 20 is swollen with the swelling liquid 22, the brush layer 20 retaining on the surface a lubricating liquid 30, and the swelling liquid 22 contained in the brush layer 20 and the lubricating liquid 30 being phase-separated to form a liquid-liquid phase separation interface 40 in between and a sliding system using the material.

A surgical cleaning device and method of use having a housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted, having a rear end and a front end, a brush head positioned at the front end and arranged outside the housing, to which a plurality of elastically deformable bristles are attached, a pump connected with the drive shaft for pumping a rinsing liquid, a gearbox that is connected with the front end of the drive shaft and with a rear end of the tube and which translates the rotational movement of the drive shaft into an oscillating linear movement of the tube and the brush head, wherein the tube is mounted movable in a linear manner; the brush head in the region of the elastically deformable bristles has at least one ejection opening, wherein the tube opens liquid-permeably through the at least one ejection opening in the direction of the elastically deformable bristles.

An apparatus for cleaning an ocular adnexa having a finger sole. The finger sole has a sole surface and a sole bottom. An array of bristles is coupled to the sole bottom. A finger strap is coupled to the sole surface.

An interdental cleaning tool capable of reducing possibility of a cleaning portion being detached from a shaft portion includes a base portion including a shaft portion (20) having a shape insertable in an interdental space, and a cleaning portion (50) that covers at least a portion of the shaft portion and is capable of cleaning an interdental space. The base portion further includes a protruding portion (40) that protrudes from a covered portion (22) in a direction intersecting the shaft portion (20), the covered portion (22) being a portion of the shaft portion (20) and covered by the cleaning portion (50).

A grooming tool for removing fleas from the coat of an animal such as a dog, has an arc of pins, and a handle on which the arc of pins is mounted.