Flexible oral hygiene tool and dispenser
CA 2444137 A1 · Owner: Barrett, Richard · Inventors: Barrett, Richard
Overview
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A flexible oral hygiene tool which attaches to the user's fingertip by means of an, adhesive which can then be inserted into the oral cavity and used to clean the surface of the teeth and gums. The tool can be brushed across the tooth's surface resulting in cleaning. The tool shall include an oval flexible base or support web, an adhesive layer to temporarily attach the tool to the user's fingertip, a release liner to cover and protect the adhesive until use and a material interwoven with the support web and projecting upward to form a miniature brush. In the preferred embodiment the flexible tool would be held , in, an enclosed dispenser thus protected from contamination. The dispenser …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 2, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 2, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 2, 2025.
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