Toilet – Toilet kit – Including toothbrush
Reexamination Certificate
2001-06-08
2002-05-14
Wilson, John J. (Department: 3732)
Toilet
Toilet kit
Including toothbrush
C132S308000, C132S309000, C132S286000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06386211
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to oral hygiene maintenance systems and more particularly pertains to a new oral hygiene maintenance system for allowing a user to brush clean their teeth without needing water.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of oral hygiene maintenance systems is known in the prior art. More specifically, oral hygiene maintenance systems heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art, which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,095,924; U.S. Pat. No. 5,054,149; U.S. Pat. No. 5,713,492; U.S. Patent No. Des. 416,387; U.S. Pat. No. 5,328,682; and U.S. Patent No. 4,237,911.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new oral hygiene maintenance system. The inventive device includes a housing that has a plurality of walls for defining an interior space. The interior space has an upper opening that permits selective access to the interior space of the housing. A cover member is removably couplable to the housing such that the cover is for closing the upper opening of the interior space of the housing. A plurality of oral hygiene devices is removably insertable into the interior space of the housing. Each of the oral hygiene devices is adapted for aiding a user to maintain oral hygiene.
In these respects, the oral hygiene maintenance system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of for allowing a user to brush clean their teeth without needing water.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of oral hygiene maintenance systems now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new oral hygiene maintenance system construction wherein the same can be utilized for allowing a user to brush clean their teeth without needing water.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the oral hygiene maintenance systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new oral hygiene maintenance system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art oral hygiene maintenance systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a housing that has a plurality of walls for defining an interior space. The interior space has an upper opening that permits selective access to the interior space of the housing. A cover member is removably couplable to the housing such that the cover is for closing the upper opening of the interior space of the housing. A plurality of oral hygiene devices is removably insertable into the interior space of the housing. Each of the oral hygiene devices is adapted for aiding a user to maintain oral hygiene.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the oral hygiene maintenance systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new oral hygiene maintenance system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art oral hygiene maintenance systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system, which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such oral hygiene maintenance system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system, which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system for allowing a user to brush clean their teeth without needing water.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system, which includes a housing that has a plurality of walls for defining an interior space. The interior space has an upper opening that permits selective access to the interior space of the housing. A cover member is removably couplable to the housing such that the cover is for closing the upper opening of the interior space of the housing. A plurality of oral hygiene devices is removably insertable into the interior space of the housing. Each of the oral hygiene devices is adapted for aiding a user to maintain oral hygiene.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system that eliminates the need for a user to purchase and carry separate oral care products.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new oral hygiene maintenance system that is of compact design, saves luggage space while traveling and allows a user to brush their teeth practically anywhere.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty, which characterize the invention, are pointed out w
Doan Robyn Kieu
Wilson John J.
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