Pre-operative surgical scrubber

Claim 1

A brush construction comprising a generally planar brush back having opposite faces, and a multitude of integral bristles projecting from one face of said brush back, said brush back being self-sustaining in its normally flat condition and being fabricated of a plastic material having flexibility enabling said brush back to be bent or folded upon itself, and being provided with generally circumferential rib means defining upstanding side and end walls stiffening the brush back against bending, said rib means being absent only along a medial region to facilitate the bending of said brush back along said medial region to fold upon itself toward the other face of said brush back to swing said bristles into angular relation with each other for brushing engagement with an internal surface; and a resilient rubbing sponge secured on said other brush back face and conformably engageable within the upstanding side and end walls formed by said generally circumferential rib means; whereby the flexural action of the plastic material enabling the brush back to be restored to its unflexed condition, and whereby said sponge also serves to enhance the restoring of said brush back to its unflexed normally flat condition.