Toothbrush

US7086116B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH and Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Broecker · Neustadt, DE
• Matthias Georgi · Siegburg, DE
• Berthold Meyer · Linz, DE
• Wolf-Dieter Muller

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29L2031/425
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A dental cleaning implement such as a toothbrush, having longitudinally disposed first and second parts flexibly joined together. Between the first and second parts is a rotatable member such that when the implement bends the first parts adjacent to the member bear upon the member. The rotatable member has circumferentially disposed relatively softer and harder regions, so that as the member is rotated the parts can be caused to bear compressibly upon selected softer or harder regions.