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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph Zappel, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
132 90 ;
Abstract
Presented is an apparatus for manufacturing a chain of connected loops from an indeterminate length of dental floss material. The loops are formed in such a way that the continuous chain of loops may be wound on an appropriate spool and individual loops detached from the continuous chain of such loops for use in flossing the teeth. The apparatus processes two strands of dental floss material in such a manner that adjacent loops are formed and attached to one another by a length of pressure-sensitive tape that adhesively secures the opposite and associated ends of two strands of dental floss material, and discharges the chain of loops thus formed in a continuous maner.