Patent Application
20200383694
Application Ser. No. 16/432,991 Parallel to Face Sculpted Edge Tongue Scraper with Dental Flosser and Dental Floss Pick
This invention is in the field of dental hygiene devices, including dental flossers, tongue scrapers and dental picks.
Most people brush their teeth perhaps once a day, floss between their teeth perhaps twice a week, and clean their tongue occasionally. Another dental hygiene tool used sporadically is a dental pick
Diligent people brush their teeth one or more times a day and floss at least once a day and frequently scrap their tongues. People who diligent about their dental care also use a dental plastic floss pick to clean between the teeth and also to gently press against the gum. Using the dental plastic floss picks with an in and out motion to remove food particles, plaque and stimulate gums. While dental flossers and tongue scrapers have been combined, the applicant did not discover a three-in-product in searches.
The invention of this application combines flossing, tongue scraping and the use of a plastic dental floss pick into one tool. The major important advancement is the use of a continuous sculpted edge on the tongue scraper, which creates a ruffled effect on the edge for tongue scraping. Those ruffles are what makes the device of this application effective to scrape the tongue to remove the white film from a dirty tongue. A straight edge of traditional tongue scrapers only glides over the surface of the tongue and does not remove the white film effectively. The ruffled edges act like a comb to dig into the surface and which results in this device's effectiveness.
Prior art includes products with a combination of dental flossers and tongue scrapers, with at least one tongue scraper have an abrasive surface on the edge to improve efficacy, but it is not nearly the same as this device's sculpted edge that creates the ruffle effect. The patents closest to the concept of this device are listed below.
A tongue and tooth cleaning device for cleaning the surface of a tongue, cleaning between teeth, and massaging the gums at the tooth gum interface comprising a handle, a continuous sculpted edge on one end of the handle, at a 90-degree angle to the handle, and a cutout near the end of the handle with the continuous sculpted edge tongue cleaner, a dental flosser with two tines for the floss on the other end of the handle. In the handle in the middle is a swing out tapered end floss pick, that rotates away from the handle when the handle is twisted away from the handle plane, the divots also can be easily broken off allowing dental floss pick to be removed when desired.
The dental flosser operates conventionally. The tongue scraper works primarily by the person placing the tongue scraper on the tongue and then pulling the tongue scraper forward. The sculpted edge of the tongue scraper asks like a comb to kick out debris from the tongue, some of which can exit the device through a cutout just in front of the tongue scraper. The dental flosser and dental floss pick work conventionally, with the dental flosser pushing floss between the teeth and the floss pick also use to remove debris between the teeth but additionally being used to clean debris along the gum line and to massage the gums. The dental pick is moved into a position where it can be used by twisting the dental flosser end of the handle back, which allows the dental floss pick to rotate forward.
The most prominent advantages of the invention are:
This application is filed on the same day as the invention of the device Parallel to Face Sculpted Edge Tongue Scraper with Dental Flosser and Dental Floss Pick. Both devices rely on the same continuous sculpted edge which creates a ruffled effect to have a comb like effect on the tongue. The difference between the two are a different location for the continuous sculpted edge, this device has the continuous sculpted scraping edge on opposite end of the handle from the dental flosser. This device also has a cutout to help remove debris, and the dental floss pick rests against the handle until it is rotated into position. The Parallel to Face Sculpted Edge Tongue Scraper with Dental Flosser and Dental Floss Pick device has the continuous sculpted edge on the top edge of the handle, the dental flosser on one end of the handle, and the dental floss pick on the other edge of the handle,
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The drawings present the preferred embodiment of the invention. Variations in each of the components is possible and mentioned in some of the additional embodiments listed in the SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION SECTION.
