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Oral care implement and method of forming an oral care implement

US10582761B2 · kind B2 · utility

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32References

20Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Colgate-Palmolive Company · US

Inventors

Eduardo Jimenez · Manalapan, US
Kenneth Waguespack · New Brunswick, US
Douglas Hohlbein · Hopewell, US
Anthony Baxter · New York, US
Marisol Rodriguez · Brooklyn, US
Alberto Mantilla · New York, US
Ellis Junior Smith · Belmont, US
Chad Leighton Helland · Knoxville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 13, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA46B2200/1066
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An oral care implement having movable and fixed tooth cleaning elements. The oral care implement may include a handle and a head coupled to the handle. The head may include a base that is coupled to the handle and a resilient bridge coupled to the base. The resilient bridge may be flexible between a normal state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is spaced from the base by a gap and a flexed state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is moved toward the base. Tooth cleaning elements may be coupled to the resilient bridge. Furthermore, the resilient bridge may include one or more apertures through which tooth cleaning elements that are fixed to the base may extend.

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