Patents Represented by Attorney Joshua C. Sanders
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Patent number: 8220102Abstract: A toothbrush head comprising a flexible bristle carrier such as an elastomer or gel pad or flexibly linked segments, on which bristles are mounted, with a support which supports the carrier at its base near the handle and at the opposite tip part, leaving the carrier unsupported thereby in a region longitudinally between these parts, the carrier being flexible such that it can deform under the forces of toothbrushing so that both its longitudinal and widthways sections become distorted. Preferably the support is also flexible.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Clos, Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8132284Abstract: A toothbrush in which at least some of the bristles are linked together at their ends proximate to the head by a web in the toothbrush head, with a pad of a resilient elastomeric material adjacent to the web. When pressure is applied to the bristles this pressure is communicated to the web, and the web bears upon the pad, and communicates the pressure to the pad of elastomeric material. By the toothbrush excessive pressure between the teeth and the bristles during toothbrushing may be relieved.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.Inventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8099819Abstract: A toothbrush head in which the fixed ends of the bristles are embedded in a mass of a polyurethane gel material incorporated in the head. Typical nylon materials as used for toothbrush bristles are found to bind with polyurethane gels so that advantageously holders for the bristles need not be used. A moulding process is also provided for making the toothbrush head.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8088133Abstract: A tongue cleaning device comprising a tongue cleaning surface supported for tongue cleaning by running the surface across the tongue, a reservoir for a tongue cleaning fluid, means to dispense the fluid either onto the tongue cleaning surface, or directly onto the user's tongue, with a cover part, the tongue cleaning surface and cover part being relatively moveable between a position in which the tongue cleaning surface is exposed for use and a position in which the tongue cleaning surface is covered by the cover part.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Mary Lynn Bosma, Helen Chrisp, Martin Kay, Stephen Sayers
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Patent number: 8069524Abstract: A brush head, in particular a toothbrush, with a base carrier (1) formed from a soft elastic material in which connecting elements comprising separate support rings (2) separated from one another and bearing a plurality of bristle tufts (4) are embedded, each of the rings having a bristle tuft threaded through. Preferably the bristle tuft can move axially in the support ring and is supported resiliently by the soft elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.Inventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8060972Abstract: A toothbrush which comprises a handle comprising at least three longitudinally elongate flexible spines arranged at the apexes of a polygon, the space between the spines containing an elastomer material which links the spines.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.Inventors: Christoph Geiberger, Klaus Reinbold
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Patent number: 8006868Abstract: A valve actuator for a valved container containing a pressurized fluid, the actuator comprising a mounting to attach the actuator to the container, and characterized by a post-expansion chamber in communication with the outlet of the actuator in which residual fluid remaining in the outlet after use can expand, and a separate suction chamber in communication with the outlet conduit via a suction opening to suck residual fluid back toward the expansion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventors: Christoph Geiberger, Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 7877832Abstract: An electrically powered toothbrush comprising a handle which contains an electric motor and power supply, a head part connected to the handle to be driven in motion by the electric motor by a transmission means between the motor and the oral head part. The head part is flexibly and resiliently connected to the handle such that the head part can move resiliently under pressure of the oral hygiene part against a tooth surface. The motor is moveably mounted within the handle and the assembly of motor and transmission means is pivotally connected to the handle at a pivot point between the brush head and the motor. Suitably the handle is in two parts with a flexible connection between the parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Klaus Reinbold
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Patent number: 7854036Abstract: A toothbrush head having an undulating surface with at least one more displaced part and at least one less displaced part and with bristles having a triangular cross section extending from a more displaced part of the bristle face.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Matthias Georgi
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Patent number: D625192Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: William J. Kooser, Mark R. Prus
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Patent number: D639762Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Kyle N Brogden, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D644324Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Jeffrey S. Brunner, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D644325Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Jeffrey S. Brunner, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D651710Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: Kyle N Brogden, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D662203Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: SmithKline Beecham CorporationInventor: David William Smith
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Patent number: D672461Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Kyle N Brogden, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D672872Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Jeffrey S. Brunner, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra
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Patent number: D673270Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline, LLCInventors: Jeffrey S. Brunner, Gustav R Fenton, Snigdha Mishra