A surface cleaning apparatus has a rotatably mounted brush. The brush has a leading row of bristles, a trailing row of bristles and a hair blocking member between the trailing row of bristles and the leading row of bristles.

A brushroll dowel for a vacuum cleaner has a bristle stiffener protruding from a brush dowel. A plurality of stiffened bristles protrude from the brush dowel adjacent to the bristle stiffener, and a plurality of unstiffened bristles also protrude from the brush dowel and are non-adjacent to the bristle stiffener.

A brushroll dowel for a vacuum cleaner has a bristle stiffener protruding from a brush dowel. A plurality of stiffened bristles protrude from the brush dowel adjacent to the bristle stiffener, and a plurality of unstiffened bristles also protrude from the brush dowel and are non-adjacent to the bristle stiffener.

A method for wire bristle tuft attachment. The method includes clamping a brush head of a grill brush using a fixture, arranging a plurality of bristles to form a bristle grouping using a terminal, inserting the plurality of bristles in a recess in the brush head, and forming an irregular bend in the terminal by pressing the terminal into the recess by a press machine.

A method for wire bristle tuft attachment. The method includes clamping a brush head of a grill brush using a fixture, arranging a plurality of bristles to form a bristle grouping using a terminal, inserting the plurality of bristles in a recess in the brush head, and forming an irregular bend in the terminal by pressing the terminal into the recess by a press machine.

A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include a mandrel, one or more carriers, each carrier removably coupled to the mandrel, and one or more bristle strips, each bristle strip removably coupled to one of the carriers. The gutter broom components can be recyclable and modular, requiring no tools for assembly or servicing.

A gutter broom is provided. The gutter broom can include a mandrel, one or more carriers, each carrier removably coupled to the mandrel, and one or more bristle strips, each bristle strip removably coupled to one of the carriers. The gutter broom components can be recyclable and modular, requiring no tools for assembly or servicing.

An applicator for a cosmetic product to keratinous materials, particularly to keratinous fibers, notably to the eyelashes, the eyebrows and/or the capillary fibers, includes a core that extends along a longitudinal axis, a cosmetic product application element having at least one block of a foam attached to the core, the foam being an open-cell polymer foam which on its outer surface has free strands formed by all or part of the edge corners of cells that have been cut through by the machining of the foam.

An applicator for a cosmetic product to keratinous materials, particularly to keratinous fibers, notably to the eyelashes, the eyebrows and/or the capillary fibers, includes a core that extends along a longitudinal axis, a cosmetic product application element having at least one block of a foam attached to the core, the foam being an open-cell polymer foam which on its outer surface has free strands formed by all or part of the edge corners of cells that have been cut through by the machining of the foam.

The invention relates to a brush comprising a support made of a plastically deformable plastic material for disposing bristle clusters (13) thereon, the support having a plurality of cluster holes (14) each serving to accommodate one bristle cluster (13), the bristle clusters (13) each being fixed in a cluster hole (14) by means of a clip (16), and the clips (16) being provided with discontinuous structural elements at least in the area of clip projections (23, 24) on at least one longitudinal side (22) disposed essentially parallel to a cluster hole axis, wherein the structural elements are disposed at a distance to the longitudinal edges of the clip (16).