Toothbrush
AssigneeTrisa Holding AG
InventorsPeter Gross, Peter Waldispuhl
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Abstract
The invention comprises a toothbrush having improved manipulative and aesthetic features. The toothbrush includes a joined two-piece construction having a hollow or tubular interior cavity, and wherein the two pieces may be of differing configurations, differing plastic material, differing colors, partially or wholly translucent, and wherein ornamental objects may occupy the cavity when the toothbrush includes transparent portions. The handle also may include soft protuberances to facilitate gripping the toothbrush.
Claims24
A toothbrush having a bristle-carrying head part and a handle, the handle being subdivided, over at least part of its length, into two parts which extend in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush, are connected to one another and, together, enclose a cavity, wherein at least one of the two handle parts consists at least partially of an elastically compliant material located adjacent the cavity to partially define the cavity.
A toothbrush having a bristle-carrying head part and a handle, the handle being subdivided, over at least part of its length, into two parts which extend in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush, are connected to one another and, together, enclose a cavity, wherein at least one of the two handle parts consists at least partially of an elastically compliant material, wherein one of the two handle parts is provided with at least one, preferably more than one, sleeve-like protrusion, the protrusions being arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush, being filled with an elastically compliant material, projecting through associated openings in the other part and being welded to the latter.
A toothbrush having a bristle-carrying head part and a handle, the handle being subdivided, over at least part of its length, into two parts which extend in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush, are connected to one another and, together, enclose a cavity, wherein at least one of the two handle parts consists over at least a part of its longitudinal length of an elastically compliant material located adjacent the cavity to define a portion of the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.