Electric toothbrush

Details Electric toothbrush Electric toothbrush

1989-11-20

1991-02-26

Roberts, Edward L.

Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning

Machines

Brushing

128 62A, A46B 1302

Patent

active

049951319

ABSTRACT:
An electric motor-driven toothbrush comprising a holder having a motor device and a toothbrush member which has a lever releasably adapted to the holder in a cantilever configuration. The toothbrush member has a number of brushing hairs or `fillings` each of which is thin and resilient, implanted at a brush head portion and a transducer device which converts a rotational movement of a rotor of the motor to a reciprocal linear movement in the direction crossing at right angles to a rotational axis of the rotor. The transducer device is provided at and adjacent to the head portion. The head portion of the brush member is finely and linealy reciprocated at a high speed along the longitudinal direction of each filling.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3978852 (1976-09-01), Annoni
patent: 4479516 (1984-10-01), Hunter
patent: 4787847 (1988-11-01), Martin et al.

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