Self-contained oral cleaning device

An oral cleaning device comprising:

• a reservoir body having a lower aperture and an upper aperture;
• a removable pump assembly attached to the reservoir body in communication with the lower aperture, the removable pump assembly when removed from the reservoir permits a user to fill the reservoir with the liquid, and when the removable pump assembly is attached to the reservoir body containing a liquid, the removable pump assembly permits a user to pressurize the liquid contained within the reservoir with air, wherein the removable pump assembly includes a pump cylinder with a one way valve to permit air to enter the reservoir, a pump piston slidably engaged within the pump cylinder, and a pressure release valve operably connected to the pump piston to permit air to vent when the pressure of the air contained within the reservoir reaches a predetermined pressure;
• a neck and head assembly attached to the reservoir body in communication with the upper aperture, the neck and head assembly having a channel in fluid communication with the reservoir and the neck and head assembly having an outlet aperture for expelling pressurized liquid contained within the reservoir;
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• a mechanism disposed between the channel and the reservoir for controlling the flow of pressurized liquid from the reservoir to the channel, thereby controlling the flow of pressurized liquid out of the device.

An oral cleaning device having a body, a neck extending from the body and a head attached to the neck, the oral cleaning device further comprising:

• a reservoir defined by the body of said oral cleaning device for holding a liquid;
• a means for filling the reservoir with a liquid;
• a manual means to pressurize the liquid contained in the reservoir with air, said pressurizing means attached to and movable relative to the body, said pressurizing means includes a pressure release valve to vent excess air when a pressure within the reservoir reaches a pre-defined optimum pressure;
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• a channel defined in the neck and having one end in fluid communication with the reservoir and having another end attached to an opening defined in the head of the oral cleaning device, conduit means connecting the pressurized liquid with said channel and means for controlling the flow of pressurized liquid through said conduit means such that pressurized liquid traveling through the channel may exit the oral cleaning device at the opening.

An oral cleaning device comprising:

• a reservoir to hold a liquid, the reservoir having at least first and second apertures and a bottom portion;
• a manually operated pump means in communication with the first aperture defined by the reservoir for pumping air into the reservoir and said pump means capable of continuous operation to increase a pressure within the reservoir such that the liquid contained within said reservoir is pressurized by air;
• the first aperture having a removable cap attached thereto, wherein when said removable cap is removed the reservoir may be filled with a liquid and when said removable cap is attached the reservoir is substantially sealed to prevent leaking;
• a neck and head assembly having a channel in communication with the second aperture of the reservoir, and having a nozzle in fluid communication with the channel;
• a tube positioned within the reservoir and having a first end and a second end, the second end in communication with the channel via the second aperture and the first end being opened to the reservoir to directly convey liquid from the reservoir into the tube and being in proximity to the bottom portion such that the tube allows for the substantially complete evacuation of the liquid in the reservoir when said liquid contained in said reservoir is pressurized, the tube and the channel forming a conduit means to permit pressurized liquid within the reservoir to jet out of the nozzle;
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• a fluid control mechanism in communication with the conduit means includes a valve that when closed prevents the pressurized liquid contained in the reservoir from jetting out of the nozzle and includes a release means that opens the valve to permit the pressurized liquid contained in the reservoir to jet out of the nozzle,
• whereby when the reservoir contains a pressurized liquid, the pressurized liquid is capable of being released through the nozzle contained in the neck and head assembly, when the valve is opened.

A hand-held device comprising:

• a body that a user may grasp during use of said device, the body containing a reservoir for holding a liquid;
• a means for filling the reservoir with the liquid;
• a mechanical means to increase a pressure exerted on the liquid contained in the reservoir to create a pressurized liquid, said mechanical pressurizing means attached to and movable relative to the body;
• a control mechanism in communication with an aperture defined by the reservoir for selectively controlling the flow of pressurized liquid out of the reservoir;
• a first attachment head removably attached to the control mechanism, the head having an opening for expelling the pressurized liquid from the device when the control mechanism is in an open position, the first attachment head is selectively replaceable with a second attachment head having a different configuration than the first attachment head;
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• a means to release pressure while the liquid contained within the reservoir is being pressurized with the mechanical pressurizing means and when the pressure in the reservoir reaches a pre-defined pressure, the pressure releasing means being attached to the mechanical pressurizing means.

A portable oral cleaning device for dispensing a high velocity, high pressure, low viscous fluid, the device having a hand-held body, a neck extending from the body and a head attached to the neck, the oral cleaning device further comprising:

• a reservoir defined by the body for holding a low viscous liquid;
• a filling aperture disposed in the body for filling the reservoir with a low viscous liquid;
• a pumping mechanism movably attached to the body for increasing pressure in the reservoir and wherein continued operation of said pumping mechanism positively pressurizes the low viscous liquid contained in said reservoir, the pumping mechanism including a pressure release valve to vent excess pressure when the pressure in the reservoir reaches a pre-determined pressure;
• a channel defined in the neck and having one end in fluid communication with the reservoir and having another end in fluid communication with an outlet aperture defined in the head of the device;
• a valve mechanism disposed between the channel and the reservoir, and a button for selectively placing the valve mechanism in an open and closed position, wherein when the valve mechanism is in a closed position, the low viscous fluid contained in said reservoir is able to become highly pressurized by repeated operation of said pumping mechanism;
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• a nozzle positioned in said outlet aperture for accelerating a velocity of the low viscous fluid being dispensed from the oral cleaning device,
• whereby when the reservoir contains the low viscous fluid and when the valve mechanism is in the closed position the low viscous fluid becomes highly pressurized from the repeated operation of the pumping mechanism such that thereafter the valve mechanism being placed in the open position permits the highly pressurized, low viscous fluid to flow into the nozzle whereupon the velocity of the highly pressurized, low viscous fluid increases such that the device dispenses a high velocity, highly pressurized, low viscous fluid.

An oral cleaning device comprising:

• a body which a user may grasp during use, the body having a reservoir that has first and second apertures and is sufficiently hollow;
• a pump means removably attached to the reservoir in communication with the first aperture, the pump means when removed from the reservoir permits a user to fill the reservoir with a liquid via the first aperture and when the pump means is attached to the reservoir, the pump means is operated to pump a gas into the reservoir such that continually operating said pump means increases the pressure within the body to create a positively pressurized liquid within the reservoir;
• a tube contained within the reservoir and attached to the second aperture and having one end opened to the reservoir to directly convey fluid from the reservoir into the tube and in proximity to a bottom defined by the reservoir such that substantially all of the pressurized liquid contained in the reservoir is evacuated when the pressurized liquid is pressurized to a predetermined pressure;
• a neck and head assembly attached to the body and having a channel in fluid communication with the tube to define a conduit means for delivering pressurized fluid from the reservoir to an outlet aperture in the neck and head assembly and;
• a valve mechanism attached to the conduit means which when placed in an open position permits positively pressurized liquid contained within the body to flow out of the outlet aperture in the neck and head assembly.

An oral cleaning device having a body for a user to grasp, the device further comprising:

• a refillable reservoir contained within said body for holding a first fluid within said reservoir;
• a pump means being attached to the body in communication with a first aperture defined by the reservoir the reservoir to pump a second fluid into the reservoir in order to increase a pressure exerted onto the first fluid contained within the reservoir, wherein continued operation of said pump means increase said pressure exerted onto the first fluid contained within said reservoir to create a pressurized first fluid;
• a tube positioned within the reservoir and having a one end secured to a second aperture defined by the reservoir and another end opened to the reservoir to directly convey fluid from the reservoir into the tube, said other end also positioned in proximity to a bottom defined by the reservoir, such that the pressurized first fluid contained within the reservoir is substantially evacuated during use when the pressurized first fluid is pressurized to a predetermined pressure;
• a neck and head assembly attached to the body in communication with the second aperture, the neck having a channel in communication with the tube and the head having an outlet for discharging the pressurized first fluid contained within the reservoir;
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• a mechanism disposed between the channel and the second aperture for controlling the flow of the pressurized first fluid contained within the reservoir to the channel, thereby controlling the discharge of pressurized first fluid out of the device.