Sanitary brush assembly

Claim 1

A wall-mounted enclosure device for a sanitary brush useable in cleaning toilet bowls and the like, which comprises: a recessed receptacle having top and bottom walls closing the ends of the receptacle; a recessed door arranged for limited vertical movement and rotatably supported by and connected to the ends of the receptacle by an upper and a lower pivotal mounting therebetween, said door being pivotable between an open position wherein the door recess faces in the same direction as the receptacle recess, and a closed position wherein the door recess is opposed to the receptacle recess; a single shelf rigid with said door and extending across the recess therein substantially medially thereof, said shelf defining a slot extending inwardly thereof from an outer edge of the shelf, in which the brush handle may be seated to suspend the brush from the shelf into a lower portion of the door recess; closing spring means; means cooperative with said receptacle for retaining the door in its open position against a closing force exerted on the door by the closing spring means, which include an arcuate channel defined by the bottom wall of the receptacle, facing a bottom surface of the door, and concentric with the lower pivotal mounting of the door, said bottom wall also defining a raised protrusion in the channel adjacent one end of the channel, a slide member attached to the bottom surface of the door, arranged to slide in the arcuate channel as the door is rotated about its pivotal mountings, so that the slide member is disposed at one end of the channel when the door is open, and at the other end of the channel when the door is closed, the door being displaced upward as the slide member traverses the raised protrusion in the channel, and the raised protrusion acting on the slide member to hold the door in its open position against the force of the closing spring means until the door is manually rotated toward its closed position and the slide member again traverses the raised protrusion, whereupon the closing spring means returns the door to its closed position.