Patent ID: 6918896
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: A47K,A61M

Abstract:
1. A user-powered, hand-held, personal hygiene apparatus comprising: a fluid containing vessel having a neck extending from proximate one end of the vessel and terminating in a fluid discharge nozzle with an open channel therethrough, the vessel having a resiliently compressible wall with an oval-shaped transverse cross section providing opposed large surface areas which can be grasped between a user's thumbs and fingers to enable the user to manually urge fluid out of the vessel through the nozzle while regulating the pressure and volume of the discharged fluid by compressing the opposed areas of the wall between the thumbs and fingers, the neck of the vessel further extending laterally of the vessel to position the nozzle laterally beyond a side of the vessel and being formed for discharge of fluid from the vessel in an upward direction when the vessel is inverted in a near vertical position and supported on the user's thighs; and a fill aperture and closure therefor provided on the vessel proximate an end of the vessel opposite the neck on the same side of the vessel from which the neck laterally extends, the fill aperture positioned to facilitate filling of the vessel while in a substantially horizontal orientation without discharge of fluid through the open channel of the nozzle.