Patents by Inventor Kenneth Gerald Waguespack

Kenneth Gerald Waguespack has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus to permit attachment of bristles to toothbrushes with resiliently flexible heads and to thereafter permit the trimming and end rounding of such bristles
    Patent number: 5863102
    Abstract: Methods and machines are disclosed to attach tufts of individual bristles to a toothbrush with a resiliently flexible head, wherein the flexible head may be segmented with joints connecting adjacent segments or it may be angled or curved or combinations thereof, and to then trim such tufts of individual bristles to a desired length--or lengths in the case of brushes with multi-level tufts--and to then round the free ends of the individual bristles in each such tuft. The disclosed method and apparatus require only the modification of conventional toothbrush tufting machines having tuft insertion tools that travel in a defined direction and the modification of conventional trimming machines and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Gerald Waguespack, Douglas J. Hohlbein
  • Toothbrush
    Patent number: D390706
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Douglas J. Hohlbein, Kenneth Gerald Waguespack
  • Toothbrush
    Patent number: D418980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Robert Moskovich, Walter Vonarburg, Kenneth Gerald Waguespack