DentaLoop Floss
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: Marion Donovan Associates
notes: label: Description
content: Package with inscriptions that read in part “DENTAL LOOP TM / FLOSS / Sixty pre-cut loops of floss!” and “Marion Donovan Associates / BOX 112-G Greenwich, CT 06831” and “Patent No. 4,523,600 . . . Other patents pending.” Marion Donovan (1917-1998) was an innovative Connecticut housewife who devised a host of items for domestic purposes.
label: Description
content: Ref: Marion Donovan, “Dental Flossing Product,” U.S. Patent 4,523,600 (June 18, 1985).
label: Description
content: “Marion Donovan, 81, Solver of the Damp-Diaper Problem,” New York Times (Nov. 18, 1998), p. B15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Greenwich
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
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content: Beauty and Health
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sharon Donovan Dodd, Christine Donovan, and James F. Donovan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0157.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0157
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0157.01
label: patent number
content: 4,523,600
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental floss
label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: multifilament thread (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 in; 17.145 cm x 8.255 cm x 2.54 cm