Oral care system, kit and method
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsEduardo Jimenez, Alan Sorrentino, Robert Moskovich
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Abstract
An oral care system comprising an oral care implement, such as a toothbrush, and dispenser containing a fluid detachably coupled to the tooth-brush. The invention is an oral care system comprising: a toothbrush having a cavity; a dispenser comprising a reservoir containing a fluid; a cap detachably coupled to the dispenser; wherein when the cap is coupled to the dispenser, the cap prohibits the dispenser from being inserted into the cavity; and wherein when the cap is detached from the dispenser, the dispenser can be inserted into the cavity and detachably coupled to the toothbrush.
Claims20
An oral care system comprising:
- a toothbrush having a cavity and a plug in the cavity, an opening forming a passageway into the cavity;
- a dispenser comprising a housing having a reservoir containing a fluid and a dispensing orifice;
- a cap detachably coupled to the dispenser that seals the dispensing orifice, the cap comprising a tubular portion and a flange portion;
- wherein the flange portion of the cap has a diameter that is greater than a maximum diameter of the housing of the dispenser, and wherein the flange portion of the cap can not fit through the opening so that when the cap is coupled to the dispenser, the cap prohibits the dispenser from being inserted into the cavity;
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- wherein when the cap is detached from the dispenser, the dispenser can be fully inserted into the cavity so that the plug penetrates the dispensing orifice and the dispenser is detachably coupled to the toothbrush.
An oral care system comprising:
- a toothbrush having a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis and an opening forming a passageway into the cavity, the opening having a first transverse cross-sectional profile;
- a dispenser comprising a housing having a reservoir containing a fluid and a dispensing orifice, the housing having a second transverse cross-sectional profile that fits entirely within the first transverse cross-sectional profile;
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- a cap detachably coupled to the dispenser, the cap having a portion having a third cross-sectional profile that does not fit entirely within the first transverse cross-sectional profile.
An oral care system comprising:
- a toothbrush having a cavity;
- a dispenser comprising a reservoir containing a fluid;
- a cap detachably coupled to the dispenser;
- wherein the cap comprises a portion that can not be translated through an opening that forms a passageway into the cavity so that when the cap is coupled to the dispenser, the cap prohibits the dispenser from being inserted into the cavity;
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- wherein when the cap is detached from the dispenser, the dispenser can be inserted into the cavity and detachably coupled to the toothbrush.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.