Teeth cleaning implement
OwnerJorge Alvarezinventor
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Abstract
A teeth cleaning implement includes a dental floss supply reel located within a housing that serves as a handle for maniuplating the implement during a teeth cleaning operation. The dental floss is unwound from the reel through an elongated tubular guide that projects from the housing. The dental floss extends from the tubular guide to a second tubular guide, and through this second guide into the housing and back onto the supply reel. The exposed section of the dental floss between the two guides can be moved back and forth in the teeth spaces to achieve a teeth cleaning operation. Periodically the floss supply reel can be rotated to expose a new section of floss.
Claims16
A teeth cleaning implement comprising:
- a housing sized to serve as a handle;
- a dental floss supply reel rotatable in said housing;
- two spaced parallel elongated dental floss guides projecting from said housing;
- a dental floss string wound on said floss supply reel;
- said string extending from said supply reel through one of the elongated guides, across the space between said guides, through the other guide, and back onto the supply reel;
- and reel operator means for intermittently rotating said reel, whereby the dental floss string can be pulled off the supply reel to advance an incremental length of the string into the space between the two elongated guides
The teeth cleaning implement of Clam 1, wherein said reel operator means comprises a casing detachably connected to said housing, and an electric motor located within said casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.