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Automatic flossing apparatus

  • US 4,245,658 A
  • Filed: 04/09/1979
  • Issued: 01/20/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic flossing apparatus having an elongated body, and having two spools, one for disbursing new floss and one for rolling up the used floss, a two prong pivotable headpiece hinged at one end of said body, an oscillator for subjecting said pivotable headpiece and floss to short back and forth motions from side to side, wherein the floss follows a circuit beginning at said spool of new floss, then to said oscillator, then across said two prongs of said pivotal headpiece, back to said oscillator, then picked up by said spool for the used floss, and tension means for maintaining tension on said floss circuit, said tension means simultaneously taking up slack caused by feeding the floss across said circuit and by the short back and forth oscillations of said pivotable headpiece.

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