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 and dispenser containing a fluid detachably coupled to the oral care implement. In one embodiment, the dispenser includes a reservoir containing a fluid and an actuator for dispensing the fluid from the dispenser; and the dispenser is alterable between: (i) a storage state in which the dispenser is detachably coupled to the oral care implement and a mechanical interference between a portion of the actuator and a portion of the oral care implement prohibits actuation of the actuator; and (ii) an application state in which a user can actuate the actuator to dispense the fluid from the dispenser.
Claims29
An oral care system comprising:
- an oral care implement;
- a dispenser comprising a reservoir containing a fluid and an actuator for dispensing the fluid from the dispenser;
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- the dispenser alterable between:
- (i) a storage state such that a mechanical interference between a portion of the actuator and a portion of the oral care implement prohibits actuation of the actuator relative to the oral care implement;
- and (ii) an application state in which a user can actuate the actuator to dispense the fluid from the dispenser.
An oral care system comprising:
- an oral care implement comprising:
- a handle;
- an anti-actuation feature;
- and
- a head;
- a dispenser comprising:
- a housing having a reservoir containing a fluid;
- a dispensing orifice located at a distal end of the housing;
- a actuator having an anti-actuation feature, the actuator located at a proximal end of the housing, wherein upon actuation of the actuator, the fluid from the reservoir is dispensed via the dispensing orifice;
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- the dispenser alterable between:
- (i) a storage state such that the anti-actuation features of the oral care implement and the actuator mechanically mate to prohibit actuation of the actuator;
- and (ii) an application state in which a user can actuate the actuator to dispense the fluid from the dispenser, the dispenser being detached from the oral care implement.
An oral care system comprising:
- an oral care implement;
- a dispenser comprising a reservoir containing a fluid and anactuator for dispensing the fluid from the dispenser;
- the dispenser alterable between:
- (i) a storage state in which the dispenser is detachably coupled to the oral care implement;
- and (ii) an application state in which the dispenser is separated from the oral care implement;
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- one of the oral care implement or the dispenser comprising a key and the other of the oral care implement or the dispenser comprising a recess, and wherein the key mates with the recess when the dispenser is in the storage state so as to prohibit actuation of the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.