Patent ID: 9420867
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: A45D,A47K,A61L

Claim Text:
1. A unitary hand-held device comprising: a first hand-placement structure comprising an outer surface configured to receive a palm of a first hand of a user; a second hand-placement structure, that with respect to a first horizontal axis, opposes the first hand placement structure, and further comprising an outer surface configured to receive a palm of a second hand of the same user while the first hand is received by the first hand placement structure such that during usage of the device, the user's first palm and second palm face each other with respect to the first horizontal axis; and a digit cleaning region comprising a plurality of cavities positioned, with respect to the horizontal axis, between the first hand-placement structure's outer surface and the second hand-placement structure's outer surface, configured to receive a plurality of digits of each of the first and the second hand of the user, wherein at least a portion of the cavities are configured to, during use of the device, have a depth dimension of at least an average length of a distal aspect of the user's one or more fingers or one or more thumbs positioned within the respective cavity, an interior outlet within the digit cleaning region configured to release a cleaning agent into the cavities during use of the device, wherein the device is configured such that during use, at least one of: a force of the user's digits and a rotational force of the device along an axis of rotation that is co-linear with the first horizontal axis is configured to expose the cleaning agent held within the device to be extruded onto the digits and at least one of: the force of the user's digits and the rotational force of the device is configured to result in an atraumatic cleaning of the distal aspect of the digit including an underside of a nail plate of the plurality of digits within the cavities as well as an area of hyponychium skin between a free margin of the nail plate and an onychodermal band of each of the plurality of digits.