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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1992
Holger Fitjer, Ansbach, DE;
Georg Karl Geka-Brush GmbH, Bechhofen-Waizendorf, DE;
Abstract
In a holding device comprising a handle and a holding section for exchangeably arresting a dental cleaning brush with a wire stem, the holding section having a bore extending about perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the holder and approximately corresponding to the diameter of the wire stem of the brush and into which the stem of the brush can be inserted, a longitudinally displaceable locking member being provided to arrest the stem safeguarded against rotation by a longitudinal slot after its being bent by 90.degree., it is provided in accordance with the invention that the bore opens into a longitudinal recess at the free end of the holding section, and that from the free end the locking member displaceably engages with the longitudinal recess, the stem of the brush being bent over by the displacement of the locking member inwards in the axial direction and being arrested between a longitudinal slot of the locking member and the internal wall of the longitudinal recess on the one hand and in the bore on the other hand.