Patent ID: 7937794

Claim:
An article for use in personal hygiene having a brush head, a handle and a neck part connecting the brush head and the handle, the article defining proximal and distal ends and a midpoint between the proximal and distal ends, the article comprising: a first molded part defining at least a portion of an exterior of the handle and at least a portion of the first molded part extending between the midpoint and the proximal end of the article, the first molded part being formed of a first plastic material; and a second molded part forming the neck part and bearing the brush head at the distal end of the article, the second molded part being formed of a second plastic material and being injection-molded around or into the first molded part, one of the first and second molded parts is at least partially enclosed by the other one of the first and second molded parts during injection molding so that the first and second molded parts are mechanically joined to one another in a non-releaseable interlocking fashion without the first and second plastic materials forming a chemical bond with one another, and wherein one or both of the first and second molded parts receive at least one further part, of a different material than the first and second molded parts, formed of a thermoplastic elastomer.