Disposable portable waterless teeth-cleaning assemblies and method of manufacture

A disposable teeth-cleaning assembly for prompt, discrete, and convenient brushing of teeth in locations where access to potable water and means for disposal of waste water are limited, said assembly comprising:

• a plurality of diminutive toothbrushes each having opposite ends, a length dimension, and a quantity of soft bristles near to one of said opposite ends;
• a quantity of non-foaming, saliva-activated teeth-cleaning agent applied to and dried upon said bristles;
• a plurality of small moistened disposable towels;
• a quantity of moistening agent applied to each of said disposable towels;
• a plurality of packages adapted for airtight sealing of one of said disposable towels when said disposable towel is in a compactly folded configuration, said packages each having a width dimension;
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• a plurality of flexible, thin-walled, airtight packaging units each adapted for sanitary storage of one of said toothbrushes and one of said disposable towels prior to use, said packaging unit being only slightly longer than said length dimension of one said toothbrush and only slightly wider than said width dimension of one said package, each said packaging unit having a front member and a back member, with each said front member and each said back member having a perimeter edge, said perimeter edges of each said front member being heat sealed together with a different one of said back members to form one said packaging unit, and at least two of said packaging units being joined together by easily separable attachment means so that each said packaging unit may be promptly and neatly separated from the others for individual use.

A method for manufacturing a waterless, disposable teeth-cleaning assembly, said method comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of diminutive toothbrushes each having bristles near to one end, a quantity of non-foaming, saliva-activated teeth-cleaning agent;
• a number of small disposable towels identical to the number of toothbrushes;
• a quantity of moistening agent, a number of packages identical to the number of disposable towels, a plurality of sanitary flexible thin-walled lower packaging unit members, and a number of sanitary flexible thin-walled upper packaging unit members identical to the number of lower packaging unit members;
• sanitarily applying said teeth-cleaning agent to said bristles;
• allowing said teeth-cleaning agent to dry upon said bristles;
• sanitarily applying said moistening agent to each of said disposable towels so that said disposable towels each become moistened, but not supersaturated, with said moistening agent;
• folding each of said moistened disposable towels into a compact configuration;
• sealing each of said moistened disposable towels into one of said small disposable packages so that evaporation of said moistening agent is prevented prior to use;
• horizontally extending one of said lower packaging members;
• placing a plurality of said sealed packages onto said horizontally extended lower packaging member at spaced apart distances from one another;
• placing one of said toothbrushes on top of each of said spaced apart sealed packages;
• horizontally extending one of said upper packaging members over said toothbrushes and said spaced apart sealed packages, while at the same time aligning said horizontally extending upper packaging member with said horizontally extended lower packaging member;
• heat sealing perimeter edges of said horizontally extended upper packaging member to said horizontally extended lower packaging member;
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• creating easily separable means in said horizontally extended upper packaging member and said horizontally extended lower packaging member between said spaced apart packages so that individual ones of said toothbrushes can be promptly and neatly separated from the remaining ones of said toothbrushes on said horizontally extended lower packaging member for independent transport, storage and use without disturbing the remainder of said horizontally extended upper packaging member and said horizontally extended lower packaging member sanitarily heat sealed around the remaining ones of said spaced apart toothbrushes and said spaced apart packages.