Toothbrush with toothpaste pellets
OwnerAustin Bernardinventor
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Abstract
A toothbrush having a handle portion, a shank portion and a head portion. A channel extends longitudinally through the handle portion, the shank portion and terminates in the head portion. The channel is sized to slidably receive one or more toothpaste pellet formulated to effervesce when exposed to water or saliva. An aperture extends transverse through the head portion providing fluid communication into the channel. A one-way gate is disposed within the channel permitting a toothpaste pellet to pass into the head portion, and to prevent the toothpaste pellet from passing out of the head portion. A handle cap is removably attached to a lower end of the handle portion. The head portion and shank portion may be received within a head cap that removably attaches to the handle portion.
Claims10
A toothbrush, comprising:
- a head portion having brush bristles;
- a shank portion;
- a handle portion;
- a channel extending longitudinally through the handle portion, the shank portion and terminating in the head portion, the channel sized to slidably receive a plurality of toothpaste pellets within the handle portion;
- an aperture extending transverse through the head portion and providing fluid communication into the channel;
- a first one-way head gate disposed within the channel above the handle portion and at a distance relative to the head portion such that only an upper most one of the plurality of toothpaste pellets within the channel is receivable within the head portion, the first one-way gate configured to move between a normally closed position and an open position;
- a handle cap adapted to removably attach to a lower end of the handle portion, whereby when attached to the lower end of the handle portion, the handle cap closes a lower end of the channel extending through the handle portion
- whereby, the one-way head gate is movable between the normally closed position and the open position by a user grasping the handle portion and making an abrupt, downward, jerking motion, whereupon the plurality of toothpaste pellets are forced upwardly through the channel from the handle portion and into the shank portion toward the head portion, and whereupon the upper-most one of the plurality of toothpaste pellets forces the one-way head gate to move from the normally closed position to the open position such that the upper-most one of the plurality of toothpaste pellets passes from the shank portion into the head portion, and whereupon the one-way head gate again moves to the normally closed position trapping the upper-most one of the plurality of toothpaste pellets within the head portion behind the brush bristles above the one-way head gate and wherein any remaining ones of the plurality of toothpaste pellets fall back through the channel from the shank portion and into the handle portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.