Patent ID: 7041261

Claim:
A sanitizing sponge container comprising a fluid container bowl, open at the top, having an essentially planar interior floor and side walls of sufficient height to allow said container bowl to hold, in its interior, various shaped and sized sponges and sufficient disinfectant fluid to completely submerge said sponges, said sanitizing sponge container further comprising an essentially flat matching lid, said lid having extended from its bottom surface a downward projecting lid shaft, said shaft being dimensioned to fit downward into said container bowl, said shaft also being of vertical length less than the depth of said container bowl, allowing said shaft to fit downward into said container bowl and force downward a sponge being sanitized in said container bowl, said lid having sufficient weight to hold a sponge completely submerged under said disinfectant fluid, said container bowl lid further comprising a spacing means to hold said downward facing surface of said lid shaft above said top surface of said sponge, while said lid shaft holds said sponge completely submerged under the disinfectant fluid in said container bowl, and wherein said spacing means comprises an essentially horizontal, flat, rectangular, ribbed grate which fits horizontally into the interior of said bowl and across the bottom surface of said lid shaft, said grate further comprising an upward projecting knob at each corner of said grate.