Tooth cleaning device

• US 3,934,299 A
• Filed: 07/13/1972
• Issued: 01/27/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Willard D. Regester
• Original Assignee: Willard D. Regester
• Inventors: Regester, Willard D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldman, Peter
• Application Number:
  US05/330,811
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 15/227, 15/167 R, 15/104.92, 15/104.93, 15/104.94, 132/84, 132/91
• US Class Current: 15/104.94
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 5/04 shaped as gloves or finger-stalls or other special holding ways, e.g. by the tongue

Abstract

A device adapted to be worn on the finger for cleaning the teeth, wherein the device has an outer surface provided with a fabric texture with the fabric being impregnated with a dentifrice material. The device has a tab at the open end thereof for facilitating the placement of the device on a finger.

Claims

1. A tooth cleaning device comprising:

a tubular body of terry cloth material having a continuous outer fabric surface throughout substantially its entire length, the body having a pair of opposed flexible fabric members, the members being integral with each other at one extremity of the body to provide a closed end therefor, the members being welded together only at the side margins thereof to define a pair of spaced ribs with the ribs being generally parallel with each other, providing continuations of said outer surface, and extending substantially the entire lengths of the side margins from said one extremity to the opposite extremity of the body, said opposite extremity being open to permit the body to be placed on the finger and inserted in the mouth for engaging the

2. A tooth cleaning device comprising:

a tubular body having a pair of panel members with each member having an outer surface, being of a single layer of terry cloth material, and having a pair of opposed, generally parallel side margins and a pair of opposed end margins, one of the end margins of one panel member being integral with the corresponding end margin of the other panel member, the opposite end margins of the panel members being separate from each other, the panel members being in overlapping relationship to each other with the side margins of one panel member being proximal to corresponding side margins of the other panel member, said proximal side margins being welded together along a pair of spaced, generally parallel lines extending substantially throughout the entire lengths of the side margins to form said body and to permit the same to be placed on the finger for engaging and cleaning the teeth, the welds at said side margins defining respective ribs which present continuations of the outer surfaces of said panel members, said body being impregnated with a dentifrice material.