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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Leighton Davies-Smith, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Erin Speicher, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A46B 17/06 (2006.01); A46B 11/00 (2006.01); A46B 9/04 (2006.01); A46B 3/00 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A46B 17/065 (2013.01); A46B 9/04 (2013.01); A46B 11/001 (2013.01); A46B 3/005 (2013.01); A46B 15/0095 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of sanitizing a toothbrush. The method may include delivering a sanitizing fluid from a reservoir of a toothbrush that comprises a store of the sanitizing fluid to bristle tufts of the toothbrush solely via capillary action, wherein each of the bristle tufts comprises a plurality of bristle filaments so that the sanitizing fluid wicks upwardly along the bristle tufts within spaces between the bristle filaments to sanitize the bristle filaments.