Tongue cleaning device

US8088133B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Glaxo Group Limited · GB

Inventors

• Mary Lynn Bosma · Weybridge, GB
• Helen Chrisp · Weybridge, GB
• Martin Kay · San Francisco, US
• Stephen Anthony Sayers · Aylesbury, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 2005
• Grant date: Jan 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 11, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2050/0083
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A tongue cleaning device comprising a tongue cleaning surface supported for tongue cleaning by running the surface across the tongue, a reservoir for a tongue cleaning fluid, means to dispense the fluid either onto the tongue cleaning surface, or directly onto the user's tongue, with a cover part, the tongue cleaning surface and cover part being relatively moveable between a position in which the tongue cleaning surface is exposed for use and a position in which the tongue cleaning surface is covered by the cover part.