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US 5,348,032 AGranted
Anti-wicking flossing tool
OwnerRobert F. Masoninventor
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Abstract
An improved dental flossing tool having a resilient member, located adjacent the tip where the flossing material exits the tool, and formed with an aperture of lesser diameter than that of the floss which serves to clamp the flossing material to positively prevent the floss from serving as a wick to carry moisture through the tip into the interior of the flossing tool.
Claims20
A dental flossing tool comprising:
- a hollow handle containing a floss storage area therein and formed with a rigid tip having an opening and having a strand of floss entending from said storage area and exiting through said opening of said tip, and
- a resilient member mounted adjacent said opening at the extreme end of said tip where said floss makes it's final exit from said tool and having an opening having a fixed lateral dimension no greater than that of said floss strand extending through said resilient member to cause said resilient member to clamp said strand of floss extending through said resilient member and to prevent moisture from entering said tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.