Periodontal toothbrush
CA 2086460 A1 · Owner: Colson, Edward L. · Inventors: Colson, Edward L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A toothbrush which is anatomically designed and constructed to effectively and efficaciously remove plaque or calculus from the inaccessible interproximal spaces between adjacent teeth and at, the same time gently massage the gingiva and effectively clean the teeth. The toothbrush includes a unique and novel bristle arrangement at one end of an offset handle. The bristles are arranged in tufts embedded in and anchored to a toothbrush head which is integrated with the handle in a conventional manner. The bristle tufts being arranged in twelve transverse or lateral rows with each transverse row including four tufts of bristles except for the outermost transverse row which includes only two …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed December 30, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 30, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 30, 2014.
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