Toothbrush

A toothbrush and tooth cleaning element technology, which is applied in the direction of brushes, brush bodies, household utensils, etc., and can solve the problems of difficult toothbrush graspability and other issues

CN102186375AInactive Publication Date: 2011-09-14BRAUN GMBH
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Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
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Publication Date
2011-09-14
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a toothbrush having a head(1) with tooth-cleaning elements(31,32,33,34,35) provided on the top side(18) thereof, with a handle(3) having a recess, with a neck(2) connecting the head(1) to the handle(3), whereby the recess is designed so that a depression(24,25,26,27,28) in the handle(3) at least a finger's width in size is formed by the wall sections(39) bordering the recess toward the outside.
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technical field

[0001] The present invention relates to a toothbrush having a top side and a bottom side opposite the top side, said toothbrush having a head on which tooth cleaning elements are provided, said toothbrush having a handle comprising a recess and has a neck for connecting the head to the handle so that the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush extends from one free end of the handle to the free end of the head. Background technique

[0002] US 5,908,038 discloses a toothbrush of the type mentioned in the preamble, which has a recess in the area of ​​the handle in order to reduce material costs. However, since a smaller amount of plastic material is used for the toothbrush body, it is more difficult to make the toothbrush have good grip without variation. Contents of the invention

[0003] It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a toothbrush which can be manufactured at low cost using less plastic material; Ergonomically using the to...

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[0027] figure 1 Shown is a perspective view of the top side of a toothbrush having a head 1 , a neck 2 connected to the head, and a handle 3 which in turn is connected to the neck. The top side of the toothbrush has tooth-cleaning elements in the region of the head 1 in the form of bristle tufts 4 . The top side of the handle 3 has a thumb rest 5 designed as an indentation in the surface structure. The thumb rest 5 has, in particular, a support shoulder 6 in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush towards the head and a support shoulder 7 in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush towards the free end 8 of the handle. The thumb rest is designed to have an oval shape, specifically as figure 2 shown in the top view of the toothbrush in , and has concentric elliptical grooves that additionally increase grip in the thumb rest area. The top side of the handle 3 has additional notches 9, 10, 11 and 12 which extend only a few millimeters into the surface structure of th...