KR20180008069A - dental gum for pet dog - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a dental gum for pet dogs, which includes: a cylindrical body elongated to a side and having an internal empty space; and a plurality of protruding parts protruding from the outer surface of the body in a longitudinal direction of the body. Here, the body is able to have a circular, triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, or hexagonal shape on a vertical cross section to a longitudinal direction, and the protruding parts are formed to be stretched from the cross section in a radial direction, or to be stretched from a side of the polygonal shape in a vertical direction to the side. According to the present invention, when a pet dog chews the gum, teeth touch the protruding parts and the surface of the teeth is abraded, and then, the cylindrical body is partially broken and the teeth get into the empty space of the body to make the surface of the teeth abraded, and thus, tartar and dental plague are more frequently removed from the surface of the teeth by the abrasion effect.

Description

Dental gum for pet dog

The present invention relates to a gum for pets, and more particularly to a dental gum for dog dental health.

As the breeding of pets increases, the awareness of pets and the form of breeding are changing a lot. In the past simple pets have been increasingly recognized as companion animals, and their attention to health as well as their appearance is increasing.

As more and more dogs are considered to be typical pets, their awareness of the importance of care for periodontal disease and the management of dental conditions in dogs is increasing gradually. Periodontal disease is one of the most common oral diseases of small animals. In general, small pet varieties are prone to periodontal disease, and about 80% of dogs and about 70% of cats It is known that it affects periodontal disease of the form. In addition, the periodontal disease can cause bad breath, which can have a bad influence on the relationship between the dog and the owner.

This periodontal disease is caused by the plaque formed on the surface of the teeth (a lot of bacteria living in the mouth are clumped together with specific ingredients in the saliva) and dental calculus (formed by hardening of the plaque with time) It is important to remove plaque and calculus to prevent disease.

Accordingly, a direct method for the plaque and plaque removal of a dog can include, for example, teeth brushing. However, brushing teeth is troublesome, and it can be an anxious and painful act for dogs, making it difficult to carry out.

As a substitute for tooth brushing, methods using dental hygiene gum and chewing toys have been used. However, despite these methods, it is difficult at present to obtain a definite effect of removing the plaque and tartar of a dog.

The existing gum initially seemed to be a favorite for dogs, so it tended to be made mainly of dog's favorite smell, taste and smell, and the perception of dog gum to remove plaque and tartar was increasing, The main focus was on techniques for removing plaque and tartar, including other medicinal ingredients, and the effect of chewing gum on teeth to remove plaque and calculus was considered to be supplementary.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2016-0028333

It is an object of the present invention to provide a dental gum for dogs which is provided to a dog and is chewed to increase the effect of removing plaque and tartar due to the texture and shape of the contents.

An object of the present invention is to provide a dental chewing gum for dogs which can increase the effect of removing plaque and calculus by a configuration suitable for the body structure of a dog.

In order to achieve the above object, the dog dental gum of the present invention is formed to be long in one direction and has a plurality of protrusions (protruded) extending outward on the outer surface of the hollow cylinder in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction .

In the present invention, the cross section may have a polygonal structure of a hollow triangle or a hexagon as well as a circular shape.

In the present invention, the projecting portion may be a portion extending in a radial direction from the center when viewed in cross section, and when the cross-section is polygonal, the projecting portion may extend in a direction perpendicular to the side in the polygonal side, The protrusions formed in the respective portions that are formed may extend in the radial direction.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dental gum for dogs, which comprises a base material containing a fibrous or granular reinforcing functional material having a material or condition different from that of the base.

According to one aspect of the present invention, when a dog chews a dental gum, the protruding portion first abuts against the teeth to polish the tooth surface. Secondly, when the cylindrical body is partially broken and the tooth enters the hollow space inside the barrel, ) Is abraded and the tooth surface is polished, so that it is possible to increase the effect by having the opportunity to remove the plaque and plaque on the tooth surface.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the dental gum for dogs includes a polishing function enhancing body which is mechanically stronger than the base, so that this part can enhance the effect of polishing the teeth when exposed to the surface when the base part is broken. Therefore, the synergistic action of the polishing effect can be expected when the cylindrical body has a constitution which assumes that the cylindrical body is cracked to improve the polishing effect.

In the present invention, when the dental gum is partially crushed when the dog is chewed, the dental gum is prevented from being completely crushed while retaining its shape to some degree, It is possible to maintain the state that the dental gum surrounds, thereby enhancing the effect of polishing.

1 is a perspective view showing an example of a conventional dental gum,
2 is a perspective view showing dental chewing gum according to an embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a conceptual cross-sectional view illustrating an effect according to an embodiment of the present invention,
4 is a sectional view showing another embodiment of the present invention,
5 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a formative advantage of an embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a state in which a polishing function enhancing material is contained and distributed in a base in another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

2 is a perspective view showing dental gum according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the dog dental gum 10 includes a cylindrical main body 11 formed in a long length and a plurality of protrusions 13 formed on the outer side surface of the main body along the cylinder in the longitudinal direction and protruding outwardly Respectively. The inside of the main body 11 forms an empty space 15.

Therefore, in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the main body 11 is formed into a circular shape having a predetermined thickness, and on the outer side surface of the circular main body, the projections 13 extend radially outward from the center of the circle .

Fig. 3 shows how each structure of the tenantum gum 10 acts on the polishing of the dog teeth. As shown in this drawing, when a dog chews dental chewing gum, teeth are first inserted between the protruding portions 13, so that the surface of the protruding portion 13 comes into contact with the tooth surface, so that the protruding portion can polish the tooth surface. A portion of the tooth having a high tooth height presses the outer surface of the cylindrical body 11 through the space between the protrusions when chewing the dental gum. In this portion, the cylindrical body 11 is broken, 11) and enters the empty space 15 inside. At this time, since the teeth contact with the cylindrical body portion and the tooth surface is polished, there is an opportunity to remove the plaque and plaque on the tooth surface, and the effect of plaque and plaque removal can be further enhanced.

4 is a view showing embodiments having another form of the dental gum of the present invention. The dental gums 20, 30, and 40 shown in this figure are cylinders formed in a circular shape in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the body formed in a long form in the foregoing embodiment, but here, the triangular cross section is a triangular cross section, It has hexagonal hexagonal cross section. The protrusions may be those extending in the radial direction at the center as in the embodiment of Fig. 2, but here, the sides of the polygons forming the body have a shape extending outward in a direction perpendicular to this side, angle portion extends radially outward from the center of the polygon. In one dog dental gum, the gaps between the plurality of projections on the cross section are made to be approximately the same interval.

It is preferable that the thickness of the portion forming the main body is formed to be thicker than the thickness of the protruding portion, for example, 1.5 to 2 times larger, and the protruding portion is formed to be thinner at the protruding end than the portion connected to the main body. This configuration is particularly useful when making dental gum, making extruded molds for making dental gum, and the shape of the dental gum that is made is generally not easily broken, but when the dog is chewing dental chewing gum, It can be a suitable form to break into.

The diameter and width of the space in the main body and the protrusion height of the protrusion may vary depending on the height of the teeth of the dog, but usually 0.5 cm or more and 1 cm or so in each case, so that a substantial portion of the teeth of the dog is abraded and polished, The tooth surface can be sufficiently polished.

FIG. 5 shows a comparison of shapes of the general upper, lower and lower teeth 3 of the dog in the state of holding different types of dental chewing gum. When the dental chewing gum (1) on the left side of the body has a round cross section, the dental gum does not touch the teeth in the inner section (A) than the inner higher teeth (PM4, There are limits to doing so. However, when the dental chewing gum 20 'on the right side having the triangular cross section of the body is held, the angled pointed portion can touch the innermost teeth, so that the innermost teeth of the dog can be relatively easily wiped.

Here, the dental gum has only a circular cross section and a triangular cross section, but when the cross-sectional shape is changed, the protruding portion and the tooth portion of the dog that the body touches may be different. It is possible to avoid the problem that plaque or plaque builds up and is not removed in one part of the tooth by taking advantage of the polishing effect evenly at different parts of the tooth.

On the other hand, in the comparative drawing of Fig. 5, the projecting portion protruding from the main body is not expressed. This is because the protruding portion is formed to be thinner than the main body and can be relatively easily deformed and broken. Therefore, the dental gum does not touch or contact the teeth because the sectional shape of the main body is more important.

Dental chewing gum can be made of various materials such as grains and meat as usual. In this embodiment, starch, soybean wheat, lecithin, plant fiber, powdered protein, and fat are also included. Starch may be wheat starch or corn starch.

These materials may be mixed in powder form and kneaded and heated to form a dental gum in the form of rice cakes, extruded in a state of rye, cut to an appropriate size, and then heated or dried to form a commercially available dental gum. The dental gum material and the processing method are the same as or partially modified from those known in the art, and therefore, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

On the other hand, in one embodiment of the present invention, the dental gum can be manufactured by mixing the main body with the abrasive function enhancer in the form of fibrous or coarse particles rather than the powder to distribute evenly in the dough. The abrasive strengthening body has a main part of the completed dental gum, that is, a material different from that of the base, and it can be made of a hard material having a high tensile strength or a high hardness and strength as compared with the base.

For example, the fiber-reinforced abrasive body can be made by cutting the beef leather into a fibrous shape with a finely long fiber, and the granular abrasive strengthening body may be a grainy grain of hardly dried bone.

FIG. 6 exemplarily shows a state in which dental gum 50 of the present invention contains and disperses fibrous and granular polishing function enhancing bodies 53 and 55 in a base 51).

According to this configuration, a portion of the fibrous polishing-ability enhancing member 55 or the granular polishing-enhancing member 53 is exposed on the surface of the completed dental gum 50 and the tooth surface can be polished more strongly than the portion of the base 51 In the area where the dental gum is broken and pierced by the teeth, it can be exposed on the newly exposed surface of the dental gum, and the tooth surface can be polished.

In addition, the fibrous part prevents the dental gum from being completely broken like a cookie when the dog chews and breaks, maintains some form and persistence, and keeps the dental gum parts in a state in which they can be brought into close contact and rubbing .

This configuration may be more beneficial when the body of the dental gum has a cylindrical structure, such as a cylinder or a respective passage. The body structure of the dental gum is that when the dog is biting and chewing the dental gum, the tooth is partially broken by the large tooth having a high tooth height and the tooth is polished. When the abrasive strengthening body is exposed on the fracture surface, The operation of polishing the tooth of the tooth can be performed more easily. Further, even when the main body portion of the dental gum breaks, there is an advantage in that the fibrous portion maintains the dental gum to a certain extent and maintains the state of being in close contact with the tooth surface.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. .

1, 10, 20, 20 ', 30, 40, 50: Dental gum (dental gum for dogs)
11: main body 13:
15: space 51: base
53: particulate polishing function enhancer 55: fibrous polishing function enhancer

Claims (6)

A tubular body formed in one side and having an empty space therein,
And a plurality of protrusions protruding outward from an outer surface of the main body along a longitudinal direction of the main body. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the tubular body is one of circular, triangular, square, pentagonal, and hexagonal in cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. 3. The method of claim 2,
The tubular body is circular,
Wherein the protruding portion extends radially from the center of the circle in the cross-section. 3. The method of claim 2,
The tubular body is a polygon, which is one of triangular or hexagonal in cross section,
Wherein the protrusions extend in a direction perpendicular to the sides of the polygonal side in the cross section and extend radially outward from a center of the polygon at angled portions of the polygon. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The main body and the protrusion are integrally formed, and the main body and the protrusion include a main body of a base in the form of a fibrous or granular polishing function enhancing body, and the polishing function enhancing body has a tensile strength or hardness The dental gum for dogs is characterized by being made of a large material or state. Wherein the abrasive function enhancer comprises a fibrous or granular abrasive function enhancer in a base as a main body, and the abrasive function enhancer is made of a material or a state having a larger tensile strength or hardness than the base.

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