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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen John Raven, Nottingham, GB;
Derek Guy Savill, Cheshire, GB;
Assignee:
Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co.,, Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A46B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
15201 ; 151671 ; 300 21 ;
Abstract
A toothbrush having a handle at one end thereof and a bristle bearing head, the head having a skeleton, a resilient member mounted on at least one side of the skeleton, tuft mounts in the skeleton and/or resilient member for receiving bristles, the resilient member bristle tufts being capable of toggling movement, the resilient member tuft mounts having an array of rigid receptacles or wells attached to the skeleton by a bridge hinge, characterised in that the bridge hinges are broken.