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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A46B 9/04 (2006.01); A46B 9/02 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01); A61C 17/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A46B 9/04 (2013.01); A46B 9/025 (2013.01); A46B 9/028 (2013.01); A46B 15/0081 (2013.01); A61C 17/3481 (2013.01); A46B 2200/1066 (2013.01);
Abstract
A toothbrush () having a combination of tapered and non-tapered cleaning elements () for enhanced cleaning effects and having a plurality of tapered bristle tufts of differing tuft configurations including, a first tapered bristle tuft () having a dome-shaped bristle tip profile () toward one end () of the head (), a second tapered bristle tuft () having an arcuate-shaped bristle configuration () toward an opposite end () of the head (), and a plurality of laterally-extending third tapered bristle tufts () arranged in an alternating fashion with non-tapered bristle tufts () and disposed between the first and second tapered bristle tufts ().