| US 7,546,658 B2 | ||
| Toothbrush | ||
| Michael Koeth, Buehl (Germany); Wolf-Dieter Mueller, Buehl (Germany); Klaus Reinbold, Buehl (Germany); Thomas Clos, Neustadt (Germany); Andreas Lanvers, Neustadt (Germany); and Christoph Geiberger, Herne (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG, Buehl (Baden) (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/491,483 PCT Filed Oct. 03, 2002, PCT No. PCT/EP02/11091 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 01, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/030680, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 17, 2003. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 0123939.1 (GB), filed on Oct. 05, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0039279 A1, Feb. 24, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. A46B 13/02 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 15—167.1 [15/110] | 27 Claims |
| 1. A toothbrush head having a tip end and a base end, the base end being connected or connectable to a toothbrush handle and
having a longitudinal direction between the tip end and base end, having a widthways direction perpendicular to said longitudinal
direction and having a face having widthways opposite edges, and having an elastomeric oral hygiene part mounted on the face,
the elastomeric oral hygiene part comprising an adjacent pair of elastomeric strips which each project from the face of the
toothbrush head in a strip length direction, each elastomeric strip having a strip width direction generally perpendicular
to the strip length direction the strip width dimension being less than the strip length dimension, and a strip thickness
direction generally perpendicular to both the strip length and strip width direction, the strip thickness dimension being
less than the strip width dimension,
wherein two said adjacent strips are linked such that the pair of strips comprise a single elastomeric oral hygiene part with
a cross section, cut across the strip length direction, which is chevron shaped comprising said strips converging to meet
at an apex, the strips converging in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the head to define an angle of
less than 180° between them, and wherein plural said elastomeric oral hygiene parts are arranged on said face sequentially
longitudinally and adjacent to said widthways opposite edges with the apex of the chevron shape pointing inwardly away from
said widthways opposite edges of said face.
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