Dental floss applicator

Details Dental floss applicator Dental floss applicator

1987-08-27

1988-10-11

Peshock, Robert

Toilet

Toothpick

Having thread holder

A61C 1500

Patent

active

047763574

ABSTRACT:
A dental floss applicator is especially designed to cooperate with a floss-loading device. It has a pair of resilient, juxtaposed, divergent prongs attached to a handle. Slots in the ends of the prongs enable the applicator to hold floss of the type having rigid nodules fixed to it at spaced-apart intervals. These intervals are somewhat shorter than the relaxed distance between the prongs, so that the prongs bear outwardly against a pair of nodules. A small outwardly-extending shoulder on the end of each prongs serves the purpose of: (1) Trapping a nodule of the floss, so that a span of the floss is firmly retained thereby; (2) Bearing against convergent surfaces of the loading device, by means of which the prongs are compressed toward each other for loading floss thereon; and (3) It is a device whereby the prongs are retained between the convergent surfaces of the loading device (these convergent surfaces have longitudinal, inwardly-extending lips or flanges under which the shoulders of the prongs slide).

REFERENCES:
patent: 1815408 (1931-07-01), Jordan

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