Toilet – Toothpick
Patent
1999-02-03
2000-12-19
Mancene, Gene
Toilet
Toothpick
132323, 132329, A61C 1500
Patent
active
061615552
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to dental floss and gum massager.
BACKGROUND ART
Thermoplastic elastomer SEBS gels are described in Pat. Nos. 5,334,646, 5,508,334, 5,262,468, 5,153,254, 4,618,213; and 4,369,284. These gels can be use for flossing because of their extreme softness and strength. The SEBS and SEPS triblock copolymer oil gels, however, do not have sufficient resistance to tearing when the gel is repeatedly notched or nicked by inserting and re-inserting between the teeth gaps while at the same time applying constant tension to the floss. This failure makes triblock copolymer gels much less desirable and commercially useless and unacceptable to the flossing consumer.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
1. Statement Of The Invention
I have discovered an improved dental floss and gum massager made from novel compositions comprising gels with improved high tear strength, improved high tensile strength, and improved resistance to high stress rupture. The improved gels can be formed into gel strands, gel tapes, and gel sheets for massaging the gum and flossing the teeth. The gel floss can be in the form of strands and tapes when rapped around the fingers for holding, extending, and flossing are advantageously more comfortable and less restricting to blood circulation in the fingers than conventional dental floss. When the gel floss is in the form of a sheet, it is additionally advantages for the sheet to have at least two separate selective sized holes at a selective distance apart for holding said sheet by one or more fingers of one or both hands, said sheet having a selected shaped peripheral sheet edge of a selective thickness, said holes being a selective distance from said edge and sized for insertion through by at least one said finger of each hand for holding said sheet and gripping, pulling, pushing, deforming, working, deforming, manipulating, folding and guilding said sheet edge for massaging the gum and flossing the teeth without substantial constriction of blood flow of said fingers by said sheet.
I have now discovered gels with improved damage tolerance, crack propagation resistance and tear resistance which are advantageously suitable for use as dental floss that are from about twice to about ten times or better in lowering the gap insertion breaking frequency than same rigidity gels made from triblock copolymer oil gels alone.
The invention comprises gels and articles useful as floss made from mixtures of triblock copolymers having at least one different midblock or multiblock copolymers having one, two or more different midblocks which gels exhibit advantages of improved tensile strength, improved tear strength (propagation resistance under tension and continuous notching and nicking) and additionally improved resistance to high stress rupture. Such combination of properties are not found in gels of substantially the same rigidity made from SEBS or SEPS triblock copolymers alone. The gels of the present invention exhibit low set, high dimensional stability, crack, tear, craze, and creep resistance under tension, excellent tensile strength and high elongation, long service life under shear, stress and strain and capable of withstanding repeated dynamic shear, tear and stress forces, excellent processing ability for cast molding, extruding, fiber forming film forming and spinning, non-toxic, nearly tasteless and odorless, soft and strong, optically clear, highly flexible, possessing elastic memory, substantially with little or no plasticizer bleedout. The gels are especially advantageously suitable where resistance to crazing, cracking, fracturing, and catastrophic failure while under dynamic stretch tension loads in an environment where continuous or repeated shearing, cutting, nicking, notching, lacerating, mutilating, and tearing of the gel in contact with or between other bodies (i.e., abraded by repeated contact with another body or bodies) are encountered, such as those forces acting during dental flossing. The resistance to tear propagation or ability t
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