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Dental flossing device

  • US 5,184,632 A
  • Filed: 11/25/1991
  • Issued: 02/09/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A dental flossing device, comprising:

  • a housing manually grippable by a user;

    a pair of spaced arms projecting from one end of the housing and including floss-engaging means for engaging the opposite ends of a length of dental floss to be tautly secured along a dental floss axis between said arms;

    and a drive within said housing for displacing the length of dental floss when secured between said arms;

    characterized in that said drive displaces at least one end of the length of dental floss, when secured between the arms, through a unidirectional, curved, closed-loop planar path defined by the two axes substantially perpendicular to each other and to said dental floss axis.

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