Patent ID: 8522800

Claim:
A specialized tub-like apparatus for cleaning sponges comprising: a flat bottom having tapered raised ribs, wherein the ribs provide support to the bottom and focus pressure applied to a pressed sponge therein expressing detritus from a soiled sponge; a flanged quasi-circuline tapered side wall so dimensioned that the apparatus can be seated in a mouth of a bucket, wherein said side wall is contiguous with and extends above a shelf on a riser that is contiguous with the ribbed bottom, wherein said shelf has a plurality of level control holes that operationally function in part to establish a level of incoming clean water in said apparatus, and also function as an outlet through which detritus, precipitates and water can exit the tub-like apparatus as waste water; a first inward deviation of the side wall, wherein the side wall deviates inwardly from circuline to linear, said first inward deviation comprising a water hose fastening element that functionally enables a water hose to be reversibly secured to the tub-like apparatus, wherein said water hose fastening element has a restraining wall with a top wedge-shaped hole in a top wall section and a side wedge-shaped hole in an indented wall section, wherein the holes in the top and indented wall sections are substantially orthogonal to each other, wherein the water hose will be restrained as it passes through the top hole and is flexed to curve through the side hole, such that a clean water hose can be fitted to the tub-like apparatus without any auxiliary fastening elements; and an indentation in the bottom, said indentation having tapered lateral walls and a sloped floor that feeds to an indentation drain hole, said indentation drain hole serving as another outlet through which detritus, precipitates and water can exit the tub-like apparatus as waste water, wherein said indentation disburses incoming clean water outwardly towards the tapered side wall, said disbursed incoming clean water displacing water admixed with detritus formed during cleaning.