Patent ID: 7575509

Claim:
A brush for use an apparatus for scrubbing a fowl, said brush configured to be rotated about a brush rotation axis while scrubbing the exterior of a fowl, said brush including a front face and a rear face, said front face configured to provide a fowl scrubbing function upon rotation of said brush, said brush comprising: A) a plurality of radially disposed lobes, each extending radially relative to said brush rotation axis, each lobe having a front face and a back face and including a plurality of throughholes having bore axes substantially parallel to said brush rotation axis; B) a plurality of substantially elongate bristle elements each corresponding to one said throughhole, each bristle element including a brushing tip and a retainable end opposite said brushing tip, each said bristle element itself including: 1) an elongate body portion having a substantially constant transverse cross section along its length suitably sized such that at least a portion of said body portion can pass through its corresponding throughhole; and 2) a retainable end portion too large to pass through its corresponding throughhole; and C) a plurality of back plates each corresponding to one of said plurality of radial lobes, each back plate being separately detachably mounted relative to its corresponding radial lobe so as to capture each of said retainable portions of all of said bristle elements associated with said particular lobe between said back plate and said back face of said lobe, such that detachment of a particular back plate from its corresponding lobe allows for any one of said bristle elements associated with that that particular lobe to be removed from its respective throughhole and replaced.