DE9000496U1 - Capsule or dragee for oral or dental care and dispenser for dispensing such capsules - Google Patents

Description

Capsule or dragee for oral or dental care

The innovation concerns a capsule or dragee for oral or dental care.

From DE 34 29 619 A1 it is already known to press a toothpaste powder into a tablet form and only to mix it with water when used, in order to never produce a toothpaste.

However, such use is expensive and, in addition, such tablets have the _disadvantage that they are sensitive to moisture, have a limited storage life and cannot be used without further ado. For example, they cannot be used without the use of water.

The aim of the present innovation is therefore to further develop a tablet or a dragee of the type mentioned above in such a way that oral or dental care can take place without the presence of water, whereby the products can be stored indefinitely and are easy to use.

To achieve the stated objective, the innovation is characterized in that the tablet is designed as a capsule or dragee, with a liquid or pasty oral care product being arranged in the interior of the capsule or dragee.

In the following description, only the term "capsule" is used, although the protection includes both the formation and the capsule

as well as in the form of a dragee or the other forms described below.

The main feature of this innovation is that the capsule is filled with a liquid or pasty oral care product in its interior. The main advantage of this is that it is very easy to use. The user first puts such a capsule in his mouth, bites it and the oral or dental care product comes out in the mouth and he then only needs to put a toothbrush in his mouth and the toothbrush then comes into contact with the liquid or pasty oral care product, which means that the tooth brushing process can then take place immediately.

The use of water or other necessary additives is no longer necessary.

You can also moisten the bristle head of the toothbrush accordingly before use or wet it with water.

The application of this innovation results in the significant advantage that such capsules can be stored indefinitely. They are neither sensitive to moisture nor heat, which is an advantage over the known tablets in powder form.

The advantages over conventional toothpaste, which is stored in toothpaste tubes, are obvious:

There is always a constant, fixed amount. Different flavors can be selected for each capsule; i.e., depending on the user’s choice, some capsules can be filled with toothpaste and

Strawberry flavour and other capsules with toothpaste and Peppermint flavor The number of flavors is unlimited. The packaging of such innovative capsules is significantly

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If the toothpaste tubes are made of metal foil, their production is relatively expensive and their removal is harmful to the environment. The same disadvantage applies to the production of such toothpaste tubes from plastic.

Although toothpaste dispensers are known that allow you to dispense a specific amount of pasty dental care product at the push of a button, the manufacturing costs of these dispensers are many times higher than those of conventional toothpaste tubes. Disposing of these dispensers is also much more difficult than the toothpaste tubes described above.

With the use of the new capsules, the advantage is

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Instead of a dental care product in the form of a paste-like toothpaste of any flavor, liquid oral care products can also be used, such as mouthwashes, breath freshening reagents and mouth disinfection reagents.

Just as there are small pieces of soap in the catering trade, for example, to ensure single-use or short-term use, the use of such capsules is particularly preferred in the catering trade according to the current innovation. If the guest has forgotten his toothbrush and toothpaste, he is provided with one or more capsules with which he can

curve, limited time to brush your teeth.

Providing a complete tube of toothpaste is too expensive in the catering industry.

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The advantage is that there are no problems with transferring the toothpaste to the toothbrush; with the dental care products known to date, the toothpaste must first be applied to the bristle head of the toothbrush, which can result in the surrounding area being contaminated. Especially when used by children, there is a risk that with conventional toothpaste dispensers a large amount of the toothpaste will either remain in the packaging or leak out unused or be splashed.

These disadvantages are avoided with the new capsule.

In a first embodiment, a plastic casing is preferred as the material for the capsule. ^Such a plastic casing can be flexible and can be filled with the liquid or pasty oral care product, for example, using an injection method. It is relatively easy to burst such a capsule in the mouth. The squeezed-out casing is then spat out when rinsing after brushing the teeth.

In another embodiment of the capsule, the capsule consists of two plastic membranes welded together, which are welded, for example, using the blister process, and into whose cavity the oral care product is introduced.

A third embodiment provides a capsule made of a

environmentally friendly, namely biodegradable material. Such a capsule would be made, for example, from a starch material which is provided with a liquid-tight inner skin, so that the oral care product can also be stored in it for an unlimited period of time.

In a further embodiment, it is envisaged to produce the capsules from two parts that are pushed over each other and that form an overlapping area and that define between them an interior space that is filled with the oral care product.

In all embodiments, it is important that the oral care product does not attack the capsule casing, so that it can be stored for a practically unlimited period of time, and it is also important that the capsule can be burst open by tooth pressure or tongue pressure.

To indicate different colored flavors, the capsules can be colored differently.

The innovation is now described in more detail using several examples and the drawings. The drawings and their descriptions reveal further features and advantages of the innovation.

Show it:

Figure 1: a first embodiment of a capsule in side view; Figure 2: the capsule from Figure 1 in front view; Figure 3: a second embodiment of a capsule in side view; Figure 4: several capsules according to Figure 3 in a connected state;

Figure 5: a third embodiment of a capsule in section; Figure 6: a fourth embodiment of a capsule in section;

According to Figures 1 and 2, the capsule 1 consists of an elongated capsule 7. R. pinp firnßp of pt.wa ? rm I ännp and fi to 7 imi in diameter.

As already mentioned at the beginning, the capsule 1 consists of a wrapping 2, which consists of any explosive or burstable material. Such a material can be a plastic film; a biodegradable material or a crust-forming wrapping, i.e., the wrapping is made from a liquid or pestilent medium which is preferably biodegradable.

The interior 3 of the capsule 1 is filled with an oral care product 4. The oral care product can be liquid or pasty. It is important that the oral care product 4 does not attack the casing 2*.

Figures 3 and 4 show another embodiment of a capsule 5. This is a blister version, where two halves 6, 7 of a plastic film are connected to one another in the area of a central weld seam 8. The connection is made by gluing or welding.

Such a capsule 5 can be connected as a packaging unit with several similar capsules, so that a structure according to Figure 4 is obtained. Perforation lines can be present in the area of the weld seam between the capsules in order to ensure that each capsule can be easily broken off.

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According to Figure 5, the capsule 9 consists of a casing 10 made of a biodegradable material. Such a material can be, for example, a starch product or a gelatin product. So that the oral care product 4 does not attack the casing 10, the inside of the casing is coated with a liquid-tight inner skin 11.

Silicone material can also be used as a material for the casings of capsules 5,9,12.

The capsule 12 according to Figure 6 consists of two parts 13, 14 pushed over one another, which overlap in the overlapping area 15. Here too, the interior is filled with the oral care product 4.

To use this capsule 12, it is either intended that first, for example, one part 14 is pulled off the other part 13 and then only the part 13 is inserted into the mouth, or it is possible to insert the entire capsule 12 into the mouth and cause it to burst there.

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Claims (5)

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