Patent ID: 7044299

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus comprising a hand brush and a container for storing the hand brush, said hand brush comprising a thick plate having a brush part provided around a peripheral surface thereof and a grip bar connected to a peripheral surface of the thick plate at a head edge thereof, said grip bar having an engage portion provided on opposite sides of a head portion thereof and protruding in a lateral direction, and said container comprising a peripheral wall and a bottom wall, said peripheral wall having grooves for engaging with said grip bar engage portions provided at opposite sides of an inner surface thereof, each groove being beveled by gradually increasing in width along a vertical direction thereof and receiving said grip bar engage portion at a position such that a head edge of the brush part does not come into contact with the bottom wall, said grooves being provided as pairs of adjacent grooves having a groove portion provided between the adjacent grooves for guiding the grip bar engage portions into one or the other of the adjacent grooves.