Patent ID: 6367108
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: A61C,Y10T

Abstract:
A brush section for an electric toothbrush hand piece having a rotary drive shaft, comprisinga carrier tube to which is fitted a bristle carrier carrying a plurality of bristle tufts distributing over a face of said bristle carrier, each said bristle tuft comprising a plurality of bristles, said bristle carrier and said plurality of tufts rotatable in unison 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, and said carrier tube being adapted to plug onto a mount of the hand piece of the electric toothbrush, wherein at least one spring element is attached to the brush section and is arranged between a radially inwardly directed surface of the carrier tube and a confronting radially outwardly directed surface of the mount and biases the carrier tube relative to the mount and the plugged-on carrier tube is non-rotatable relative the mount.