Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Implements – Brush or broom
Patent
1998-02-27
1999-11-23
Chin, Randall E.
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Implements
Brush or broom
15172, A46B 904
Patent
active
059876905
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The invention concerns a toothbrush with a bristle carrier equipped with bristle bundles on one side, with a handle, and with an elastic connection between the handle and the bristle carrier, which makes possible a deflection of the bristle carrier with respect to the handle when pressure is exerted on the surface formed by the free ends of the bristle bundles.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
The toothbrush is still the essential and most reliable aid for indispensable dental hygiene. When using a brush to clean teeth, however, pressure is always exerted on the teeth with the bristles and thus unavoidably also on the gums. This pressure is measured out only with difficulty by human sensation and the hand, so that on one hand, a sufficient cleaning of the teeth and their gaps is brought about, and on the other hand, the gums are not injured by excessively high pressure.
Toothbrushes available on the market, with an elastic brush head and as described, for example, in European Patent No. 0,371,293 A2, do not provide any remedy here since they are constructed in such a manner that the bristle head gives way with the pressure exerted, but the bristle surface is inclined away from the bristle head. This means that when pressure is exerted on the bristle head, the one-sided bristles are inclined away from the cleaning surface, but via the bristles on the side of the handle, the same unreduced pressure is exerted on a substantially smaller bristle surface. These toothbrushes are therefore not to be considered as an improvement but rather are to be evaluated as disadvantageous, since the risk of injury to the gums is not reduced, but rather is even increased by a smaller effective area of the bristle tips.
European Patent No. 0,339,350 A1 describes a toothbrush whose brush head can be moved by a two-part handle, consisting of an upper part and a lower part, in such a way that the surface of the brush head can assume various angles with respect to the handle. The disadvantage of this brush consists in the fact that the inclination must by adjusted by the hand and there is no way of avoiding that either the bristles close to the handle or those of the tip of the brush are pressed more on the teeth and that therefore, there is no uniform pressure distribution over the entire bristle surface. Furthermore, a considerable application of force by the hand, which cannot be controlled and measured out for the desirable purpose, is required to change the angle of inclination.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The goal of the invention is, therefore, the construction of a toothbrush, which has an elastic bristle head, in such a manner that upon deflection of the brush head, the surface formed by the free bristle ends of the bristle bundle is not inclined away from the handle, but rather retains the parallel alignment with respect to the handle or inclines against the handle, so that it is always ensured that the full cleaning effect of the entire bristle surface is used and no pressure peaks with respect to the gums appear.
The goal is thereby attained in that the connection is formed by a four-bar linkage, whose turning axes run transverse to the longitudinal extension of the handle and the bristles, and that the distance between the two links, facing the bristle carrier, from one another is smaller or the same as the distance between the two links, facing the handle, from one another .
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The construction of the toothbrush in accordance with the invention is illustrated, by way of example, in the figures. The individual figures show the following:
FIG. 1, a preferred shape of the toothbrush in a side view, in which a two-side rod connection is present between the handle and the brush head.
FIG. 2 shows a preferred shape of the toothbrush in top view, in which a three-tie rod connection is present between the handle and the brush head.
FIG. 3 shows a sectional drawing of the toothbrush in accordance with FIG. 2 along the intersecting line A-B in a side view.
FIG. 4 shows a sectiona
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Chin Randall E.
Nath Gary M.
Novick Harold L.
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