Process for making toothbrushes

US7744360B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH and Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Winfried Ebner · Emmendingen, DE
• Hans Kraemer · Marburg, DE
• Berthold Meyer · Linz, DE
• Andreas Walgenbach · Neustadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2004
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S425/805
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for making a toothbrush head comprising widthways adjacent sections, the process comprising the stages of first making the head in an injection moulding process with the sections relatively spaced apart from each other in a widthways direction, then secondly moving the sections of the so formed head relatively spaced closer to each other in a widthways direction. An apparatus for performing the process is also disclosed.