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An improved bottle brush includes a brush, a squeeze bottle having an internal cavity and a feed tube of predetermined configuration extending from the brush into the internal cavity of the bottle. A liquid cleaning agent partially fills the internal cavity and partitions it into a region of liquid

An improved bottle brush includes a brush, a squeeze bottle having an internal cavity and a feed tube of predetermined configuration extending from the brush into the internal cavity of the bottle. A liquid cleaning agent partially fills the internal cavity and partitions it into a region of liquid and a superadjacent region of foam. The foam is produced initially by shaking the bottle and is maintained automatically by the shaking action of scrubbing. The bottle brush is usable in a foam-feed and a liquid-feed mode, and the predetermined configuration of the feed tube is determined such that it opens into the region of foam when used in the foam-feed mode and opens into a region of liquid when used in the liquid-feed mode. In either mode, foam or liquid respectively is controllably dispensed without wastage of the liquid cleaning agent by gently squeezing the bottle. A conversion element is disclosed for converting a conventional liquid-feed bottle brush into one that feeds liquid and foam in accord with the present invention.

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[ What is claimed is:] [6.] A selectably orientable liquid receivable device for use as a cleaner of dirty food preparation and serving wear that is capable of controllably dispensing liquid and foam cleaning agents selectably upon liquid receipt, comprising:an elongated squeezable bottle having a n

[ What is claimed is:] [6.] A selectably orientable liquid receivable device for use as a cleaner of dirty food preparation and serving wear that is capable of controllably dispensing liquid and foam cleaning agents selectably upon liquid receipt, comprising:an elongated squeezable bottle having a neck portion terminating in an open mouth, a body portion of flexible walls dimensioned to be seized by a human hand and an included base portion, said neck, body and base portions enclosing an internal cavity whose volume is compressible whenever the flexible walls of said body portion are seized by the hand and squeezed thereby and whose volume is partitioned should it be filled with a liquid cleaning agent of a volume less than the volume of said cavity into a region where liquid would be present and into a region where there would not be any liquid but where there would be foam that is producible by shaking the elongated squeezable bottle, where the region where foam would be present always maintains a relation of superjacency to the region where liquid would be present independently of orientation of the elongated squeezable bottle;an applicator and scrubbing head adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear having a feed orifice;means for releasably mounting said applicator and scrubbing head to said elongated squeezable bottle with said feed orifice aligned to open into said open mouth of said elongated squeezable bottle; andsaid elongated squeezable bottle, and said applicator and scrubbing head adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear releasably mounted thereto, providing a hand-held dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument;wherein said applicator and scrubbing head that is adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear is laterally inclined towards one side of said squeezable bottle;said dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument having a first, generally horizontal, foam feed and cleaning orientation, and having a second liquid feed orientation generally upended to the horizontal and different from the first, generally horizontal, foam feed and cleaning orientation; andan applicator and scrubbing head feed tube having a supply end and a feed end that is mounted in said elongated squeezable bottle with its feed end in sealing relation with said feed orifice of said applicator and scrubbing head adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear and with its supply end extending into the interior cavity of said elongated squeezable bottle, said feed tube having a predetermined configuration determined in relation to said first, generally horizontal, foam feed and cleaning orientation and to the regions of said internal cavity where foam and liquid would be present such that its supply end opens at a point on the other side of said squeezable bottle to said region where foam would be present but not to said region where liquid would be present when said instrument is in its said first, generally horizontal, foam feed and cleaning orientation, enabling, when said elongated squeezable bottle is squeezed to compress the internal volume, any foam that may be present in said region of said internal cavity where foam would be present but not any liquid that may be present in said region of said internal cavity where liquid would be present to be forced into the supply end through the tube out the feed end thereof and through the feed orifice into the applicator and scrubbing head adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear, and further determined in relation to said second, liquid feed orientation generally upended to the horizontal and to the regions of said internal cavity where foam and liquid would be present such that the supply end opens to said region of said internal cavity where liquid would be present but not to said region of said internal cavity where foam would be present when said instrument is in its said liquid feed orientation generally upended to the horizontal, enabling, when said elongated squeezable bottle is squeezed to compress the internal volume, any liquid that may be present in said region of said internal cavity where liquid would be present but not any foam that may be present in said region of said internal cavity where foam would be present to be forced into the supply end through the tube out the feed end thereof and through the feed orifice into the applicator and scrubbing head adapted to scrub dirty food preparation and serving wear.