Claims
- 1. A pre-wound, replacement spool of floss comprising a supply spool having an inner surface formed with a key connection to enable said supply spool to interfit with a supply spool mounting post in a hand-held flosser, and floss substantially evenly pre-wound onto said supply spool, said floss being fixedly anchored to the supply spool mounting post without an anchor pin; wherein said supply spool has the same diameter along its entire height and is formed without flanges at upper and lower ends thereof.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/635,854 filed Apr. 22, 1996 now Pat. No. 5,678,578 which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08,267,939, filed Jul. 6, 1994 now abandoned which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/101,071, filed Aug. 3, 1993.
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