Patent ID: 8623803

Claim:
A child's hygienic product comprising: a body of hygiene material having an exterior shape and surface pattern simulating the shape and exterior pattern of a sports ball selected from the group consisting of a baseball, a football, a basketball, a soccer ball, a tennis ball and a golf ball, and sized to fit the palm of a child's hand; the hygiene material's body having a through hole communicating with the exterior surface at spatially separated regions; and a generally looped shaped cord or band of resiliently stretchable silicone material, a portion of which is positioned within the through-hole, and a portion of which emerges from the spatially separated regions and extends around the outside surface of the hygiene material's body in close proximity thereto, the cord or band being sized to extend around the hand of the child when the hygiene material's body is held by the child to generally secure the hygiene material's body in a position adjacent the child's palm when the child is using the product.