Patent ID: 7175238

Claim:
A method of producing a toothbrush from a blank, said blank comprising a handle portion, a neck portion and two diverging arm portions, each arm portion having a head portion with bristles, both head portions being located in a plane through a center line of said blank, and said bristles extending rectilinearly outwards from said center line, said method comprising the steps of: placing said blank in a shaping device; arranging a bottom side of said arm and head portions at a blank support body, wherein the support body has two mutually parallel pins have oppositely directed side faces having contact lines of the support body; bending said arm and head portions via torsion twisting around said blank support body to a desired angle position along a respective one of two axes formed by contact lines of said blank support body, said two axes extending approximately parallel to said center line of said blank and approximately level with the bottom side of said neck portion; wherein said step of bending causes said head portions to extend in downwards diverging directions with respect to said handle and neck portions, with a top side of said head portion extending downwards from a level of the center line of said blank and with the bottom side of said head portions extending downwards from a level of the bottom side of the neck portion.