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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2016
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Madhusudan Patel, Somerset, NJ (US);
Suman Chopra, Monroe, NJ (US);
Thomas J. Boyd, Metuchen, NJ (US);
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid. In one aspect, the method provides a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid contained within a reservoir of an oral care implement having a delivery member formed of a capillary material. The method includes: a) providing an indicator fluid in the reservoir with the oral care fluid, the oral care fluid being a different color than the indicator fluid and immiscible with respect to the indicator fluid; and b) upon depletion of the oral care fluid from the reservoir, delivering the indicator fluid to a visible portion of the deliver member.