Oral hygiene appliance
CA 2115380 C · Owner: Water Pik Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Snyder, Clifford J.; Eichman, Kim T.; Swanson, Gerald T.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An oral hygiene appliance includes a base on which upstands a cabinet having top, front and rear vertical walls. A pair of recesses are formed in either side of that front wall. A plurality of seats within those recesses are each receptive of a jet tip. An inlet is defined in the top wall. A cover is shaped to envelope the cabinet over the recesses and the inlet with the cover being invertable to serve as a reservoir. Disposed within the cabinet is a pump responsive to a pressure control for delivering water received from the inlet. Seated toward one end of the base is the lower end of an elongated electric toothbrush body. Individual brushes are seated in the base around the body and those …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 10, 1994 and granted May 5, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 10, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 10, 2016.
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