Infant toothbrush
AssigneeLive-Right, LLC
InventorHeather Phillips
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Abstract
A toothbrush for infants includes an elongate grasping region with a head at one end and a bottom at the other end. The head of the toothbrush includes a plurality of bristles, which may be formed from a soft, resiliently compressible material. The elongate grasping region may have dimensions that enable it to be held by an infant's hand while preventing its insertion and, thus, over-insertion of the toothbrush, into the infant's mouth. Various other features may be included to guide an infant's hand to an appropriate location on the toothbrush, as well as to enable an infant to grip the grasping region, particularly when moisture is present on the surface of the grasping region.
Claims19
A toothbrush comprising:
- a handle having a grasping region, the grasping region having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a head having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end of the head forming the distal end of the toothbrush, the proximal end of the head being coupled to the distal end of the grasping region;
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- bristles that emanate from the head, wherein the handle, head, and bristles are all formed of silicone;
- wherein the handle and the head have a face, a back, and opposing sides that extend between the face and the back, each of the face, the back and the opposing sides forming a different surface that is oriented at a different angle;
- wherein the handle and the head have a crescent shape such that the face is concave between the proximal end of the grasping region and the distal end of the head and the back is convex from the proximal end of the grasping region to the distal end of the head, the bristles emanating from the face.
A toothbrush comprising:
- a handle having a grasping region, the grasping region having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a head having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end of the head forming the distal end of the toothbrush, the proximal end of the head being coupled to the distal end of the grasping region;
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- bristles that emanate from the head, wherein the handle, head, and bristles are all formed of silicone;
- wherein the handle and the head have a face, a back, and opposing sides that extend between the face and the back, each of the face, the back and the opposing sides forming a different surface that is oriented at a different angle;
- wherein the handle and the head have a crescent shape such that the face is concave between the proximal end of the grasping region and the distal end of the head and the back is convex from the proximal end of the grasping region to the distal end of the head, the bristles emanating from the face;
- wherein a width of the face tapers towards the distal end of the head and also tapers towards the proximal end of the grasping region;
- wherein a width of each opposing side tapers towards the distal end of the head and also tapers towards the proximal end of the grasping region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.