Patent ID: 6308359
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: A61C,Y10T

Abstract:
A replaceable brush section for an electric toothbrush hand piece having a mount at one end thereof and a drive shaft rotationally disposed within the mount and protruding outwards thereof, said brush section comprisinga plastic carrier tube to which is fitted a bristle carrier comprising a plurality of teeth-cleaning bristles, said bristle carrier moveable for rotation relative the carrier tube,a longitudinal axle rotationally disposed within the carrier tube and drivingly connected to the bristle carrier and adapted to be coupled to the rotary drive shaft of the hand piece, andsaid carrier tube adapted to push onto the mount of the hand piece of the electric toothbrush in radially surrounding relation to the mount, andat least one resilient element formed of plastic and attached to the brush section and which is arranged between a radially inwardly directed surface of the carrier tube and a confronting radially outwardly directed surface of the mount, wherein the resilient element biasingly bears against the mount surface thereby frictionally hindering inadvertent motion of the carrier tube relative the mount.