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US 5,758,380 AGranted
Device for comprehensive oral hygiene
AssigneeDevmark, Ltd.
InventorJean Louis Vrignaud
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Abstract
An oral hygiene device having, in one embodiment, a unique, unrestricted, self-adjusting two-headed gum-specific brush on one end of a handle; and in another embodiment, a two-headed gumbrush on one end of an elongated handle and a toothbrush on the opposite end of the handle. A tongue scraper may also be included on the toothbrush end of the device.
Claims13
A device for oral hygiene comprising:
- an elongated handle having first and second ends and in which said elongated handle has first and second sidewalls which define a slot therein between said first and second side walls of said handle whereby said slot is disposed adjacent said first end of said handle, and whereby said slot allows for inward flexure of said first and second side walls;
- a gumbrush connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said gumbrush having first and second gumbrush heads, first and second flexible arms and first and second sets of bristles, each of said gumbrush heads having a respective one of said first and second sets of bristles disposed thereon;
- whereby said first gumbrush head is attached to said first flexible arm, said first flexible arm being connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said second gumbrush head being attached to said second flexible arm, and said second flexible arm also being connected to said first end of said elongated handle;
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- whereby said first and second flexible arms are connected to said first end of said elongated handle so that first and second heads are disposed in angled, generally opposing relationship to each other.
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A device for oral hygiene comprising:
- an elongated handle having first and second ends;
- a gumbrush connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said gumbrush having first and second gumbrush heads, first and second flexible arms and first and second sets of bristles, each of said gumbrush heads having a respective one of said first and second sets of bristles disposed thereon;
- said first gumbrush head being attached to a first flexible arm, said first flexible arm being connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said second gumbrush head being attached to a second flexible arm, and said second flexible arm also being connected to said first end of said elongated handle;
- whereby said first and second flexible arms are connected to said first end of said elongated handle so that said first and second heads are disposed in angled, generally opposing relationship to each other;
- a toothbrush connected to said second end of said elongated handle, whereby said toothbrush is adapted to brush the crowns of a user's teeth and said toothbrush further having a tongue scraper disposed thereon.
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A device for oral hygiene comprising:
- an elongated handle having first and second ends;
- a gumbrush connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said gumbrush having first and second gumbrush heads, first and second flexible arms and first and second sets of bristles, each of said gumbrush heads having a respective one of said first and second sets of bristles disposed thereon;
- said first gumbrush head being attached to a first flexible arm, said first flexible arm being connected to said first end of said elongated handle, said second gumbrush head being attached to a second flexible arm, and said second flexible arm also being connected to said first end of said elongated handle;
- whereby said first and second flexible arms are connected to said first end of said elongated handle so that said first and second heads are disposed in angled, generally opposing relationship to each other;
- a toothbrush connected to said second end of said elongated handle, whereby said toothbrush is adapted to brush the crowns of a user's teeth, in which said elongated handle has a slot defined therein between first and second side walls of said handle whereby said slot is disposed adjacent said first end of said handle, and whereby said slot allows for inward flexure of said first and second side walls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.