US 2012/0233796 A1 · ORAL CARE IMPLEMENT HAVING A HEAD INSERT

Abstract

An oral care implement is provided with a head platform having a plurality of faces and an insert retention space formed therebetween. The oral care implement can have an insert disposed within the insert retention space. The insert can include an oral care agent that is dispensed through one of the faces. The oral care implement can include a plurality of support members on the plurality of faces from which cleaning elements extend. The oral care implement can further include a fluid-permeable and/or air-permeable support member on one of the faces and an insert containing a fluid-permeable and/or air-permeable agent. The oral care implement can be formed by affixing a first AFT-tufted carrier plate to a first face of the head platform and affixing a second AFT-tufted carrier plate to the second face of the head platform.

Claims45

Dependent claims

An oral care implement head comprising:

a head platform having a first cavity formed in a first face thereof, a second cavity formed in a second face thereof, and an insert retention space formed between the first and second faces;
a first plate attached to the head platform proximate the first cavity;
a second plate attached to the head platform proximate the second cavity;
and
an insert retained in the insert retention space between and attached to one of the first and second plates;
wherein the insert includes an oral care agent that is dispensed through at least one of the first and second plates.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/425,803Filed 21 Mar 2012

Priority

3 Oct 2007

Published

20 Sep 2012

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

A46D 3/005
Preparing, i.e. Manufacturing brush bodies: by moulding or casting a body around bristles or tufts of bristles
A46B 3/00
Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or
A46B 9/045
Arranged like in or for toothbrushes: specially adapted for cleaning a plurality of tooth surfaces simultaneously
A46B 15/0055
Other brushes; Brushes with additional arrangements: brushes combined with other articles normally separate from the brushing process, e.g. combs,…

Oral care implement having a head insert

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Oral care implement having a head insert

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Abstract

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