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US 8,297,290 B2Granted
Multi-angled dental floss holder
AssigneeWelter's Co., Ltd.
InventorWalter W. Hsu
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Abstract
A dental floss holder includes a shank (11), an adjusting member (12) pivotally mounted on the shank and a cleaning unit (20) detachably mounted on the adjusting member. Thus, the rotation portion (111) of the shank is rotated relative to the mounting portion (122) of the adjusting member to adjust the inclined angle between the shank and the adjusting member so that the inclined angle between the shank and the cleaning unit is adjusted according to a user's requirement so as to facilitate the user clearing the teeth in different inclined angles.
Claims16
A dental floss holder, comprising:
- a shank (11);
- an adjusting member (12) pivotally mounted on the shank;
- a cleaning unit (20) detachably mounted on the adjusting member;
- wherein the adjusting member has a side provided with a protruding mounting portion (122);
- the shank has an end provided with a rotation portion (111) rotatably mounted on the mounting portion of the adjusting member;
- the cleaning unit includes:
- a cleaning body 26 detachably mounted on the adjusting member;
- a first clearing portion (21) mounted on the cleaning body;
- at least two second clearing portions (22) mounted on the cleaning body;
- the first clearing portion of the cleaning unit consists of a plurality of scraping pieces (211);
- each of the second clearing portions of the cleaning unit has a form different from that of the first clearing portion;
- each of the second clearing portions of the cleaning unit consists of a plurality of soft upright rubbing strips (221);
- each of scraping pieces of the first clearing portion has an annular chamfered shape;
- wherein the shank has a side provided with a hook-shaped receiving portion;
- the cleaning body of the cleaning unit is partially received in the adjusting member and partially received in the receiving portion of the shank;
- the first clearing portion of the cleaning unit is partially received in the adjusting member;
- the second clearing portions of the cleaning unit are partially received in the adjusting member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.