Patent ID: 7329327

Claim:
A method for glue-bonding a toothbrush to a closure comprising: (a) providing a soft surface plastic or rubber closure device for a corresponding necked bottle for storing a liquid having a walled center opening, a split star center disk gasket, and a center vale; (b) providing a bottle having a neck, shoulder, wall area, and bottom; (c) providing a toothbrush having an upper handle, middle handle, lower handle with built-in neck adjustment part, an adjustable telescoping neck portion, a rounded catalytic head comprising a metal face area, a plurality of tufted and tapered bristles with one opposing end embedded to beneath the metal face area to a predetermined depth into the head; (d) providing a heated glue applicator; (e) providing glue sticks or slats of A-B-A block copolymer where A is a mono-vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and B is either a conjugated diene or a rubbery mono-olefin with at least one tackifying resin which serves to extend the adhesive properties of the system, at least one stabilizer and at least one oil diluent to produces bonds with varying combinations of low and high temperature adhesion and flexibility as well as high bond strength; (f) positioning said toothbrush upper handle portion in through the closure bottom to extend upwardly through the closure walled center opening allowing the lower handle, neck, head and bristle end to extend downwardly below the closure bottom at a length for immersing the lower handle, neck, head, and bristle end of the toothbrush through the bottle neck top center, downwardly beyond the neck bottom at the shoulder, downwardly through the upper wall area to within the lower bottle interior towards the bottle bottom resting a minimum ¼ inch from the bottle bottom into sterilizing solution or water for anti-contamination when stored; and (g) fusing the toothbrush handle to the closure center wall by filling the center vale with the glue from the heated glue applicator to form a leak proof seal.