Patent ID: 7827648

Claim:
A toilet brush head suitable to be held by a toilet cleaning device, wherein the brush head consists essentially of a plurality of layers of a water-degradable nonwoven material where the material comprises at least 70% pulp fibers entangled with other fibers, and the layers are positioned on top of each other to form a stack of such layers in a manner that the brush head is suitable to be flushed down a flush toilet; wherein the plurality of layers are held together by a bond between the layers that is water degradable if the brush head is flushed down a flush toilet, wherein the bond is adjacent a first end of the stack and is formed without the use of any of glue, a staple or stitching to cause them to be held them together, and an opposed end of the stack in the form of bristles can spread out between at least some of the layers of the stack; wherein the toilet brush head comprises between four and forty layers of material in the stack; wherein at least two of the bristles of the toilet brush head each comprise a double-layered structure in the form of a loop; wherein a first such loop is stacked over a second such loop with a rearward end of the first loop bonded to a rearward end of a second such loop to restrict the rearward ends of the loops from spreading apart from each other; wherein the brush head has been at least partially impregnated with a chemical composition comprising a surfactant; and wherein the head is stored in a pouch having a weakened line along its middle section such that opening the pouch along the line will define a handle portion of the pouch and a removed portion of the pouch with a portion of the head projecting out of the handle portion of the pouch, while the handle portion provides a handle for aligning the head relative to the device when the removed portion has been separated from the handle portion.