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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1986
Paul V Dalton, Bradenton, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A dental floss holder of integral, molded construction and including an elongated handle and a wishbone-shaped portion forwardly disposed at an acute angle of greater than forty five degrees to the axis of the handle. The handle is comprised of a gripping portion and a necked down portion from which the wishbone portion is disposed. The wishbone portion includes a pair of prongs shaped to form a generally wishbone configuration adapted to straddle the width and height of the user's teeth. Each prong has a groove disposed adjacent the distal end and transversely cut part way into the prongs. In the preferred embodiment, one groove faces forwardly while the other groove faces rearwardly, the groove being tapered to lockably receive at least one wrap of dental floss therein and around so that the span of floss tensioned there between is generally tranversely oriented and spaced from the handle axis. The prongs are sufficiently resilient to allow the user to squeeze them together slightly during locking installation of the dental floss such that, where released thereafter, additional dental floss tensioning is achieved.