Patent ID: 6475173
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
A housing for an oral irrigator having a hand piece, said housing comprising:a base unit having an upper and lower portion, said lower portion engageable with a support surface and having an upper surface defining a recess for receiving the hand piece and defining a shoulder, said upper portion extending upwardly from said lower portion and defining a top surface, said top surface defining a port; a reservoir having a bottom surface defining an aperture and sidewalls extending upwardly from said bottom surface defining a cavity having a rim, said sidewalls in part defining an indentation extending from said bottom surface up to a top end adjacent said rim at a position interior to said rim, and a top wall extending from said top end of said indentation to said rim, said top wall forming an overhang; said reservoir positionable on said base unit such that said cavity encompasses said base unit, and positionable on said base unit such that said bottom surface of said reservoir rests on said top surface of said upper portion with said port and said aperture in alignment and sealingly engaged, and said indentation being oriented with said recess, wherein the hand piece is received in said indentation and covered by said top wall.