Patents Assigned to Propheze, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5642994
    Abstract: A fluid storage and dispensing container for cleaning teeth, which includes a modified prophy angle headpiece that attaches to existing hand-held prophy cup dental instrument handpieces. The headpiece has an integrated passage through the headpiece by which a fluid is dispensed from the fluid container to the rotatable prophy cup. The headpiece has a lumen through the angle that won't tear or close under flow pressure. The headpiece has a shelf on a top surface for guiding placement of the fluid container, and a snap-fit retaining clip at a base of the headpiece for securing a plurality of different fluid containers. A preferred embodiment of a fluid storage container is a flexible tube that is depressed by a finger or thumb to dispense a fluid such as prophylactic paste or a polishing lubricant to the prophy cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Propheze, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Terry Chipian, Eric Simon, Alexander Theodore