Music Tooth Brush

The present invention relates to a music tooth brush, and particularly it offers children a brush that can automatically generate recorded music or recorded talk to foster in children the habit of brushing their teeth with no need of adult urging.

According to medical literature, man's healthy teeth greatly affects his overall health. Therefore, constant health preservation treatment of teeth is an integral part of maintaining physical health, and also is closely related to facial appearance. Currently, the most important work for preservation of healthy teeth is to brush teeth after eating in order to remove the residual food bits left in the gaps between teeth, so as to avoid their fermentation which damages the teeth roots. Especially, children love to eat sweet foods and candies. Their teeth will be which damaged if they don't brush their teeth on time. Hence parents often supervise and urge their children to brush their teeth. Various kinds of candy flavor tooth pastes have been marketed to eliminate the children's dislikes of the common tooth pastes, but the effects are very undesirable, so it is still quite hard to make foster in children a habit brushing their teeth after eating, and therefore, damage rate of the children's teeth in general still remains very high.

The main object of the present invention is to solve above-said difficulties and to provide a music tooth brush, which will automatically generate the music or talk during use so as to attract children's curiousity and interest which in turn fosters a good habit of brushing their teeth constantly.

A music tooth brush mainly comprises a hollow brush hair stock, a touch switch, a brush hair board, a hollow grip handle bar, a music IC, a battery, and a sound-generating plate. Its features lie in that when the user brushes his teeth with this invention, the brush hair board can touch and press the touch switch in the brush brush hair stock to automatically make the circuit in said handle bar become electrically conductive, so the sound-generating plate generates the music. When the brush hair moves away from the teeth, the brush board restores to its original position and said touch switch restores to the "off" position, so the circuit is open, and the sound-generating plate will automatically stop its sound-generating function. Evidently this invention can induce children to foster the good habit of brushing their teeth, thereby achieving maintenance of their teeth and further their physical body health.

FIG. 1 is an outside tridimensional view of the structure of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial cross sectional view along A--A in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a partial cross sectional view along B--B in FIG. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the tooth brush of this invention is composed of a hollow brush hair stock 1, a touch switch 2, a brush hair board 3, a hollow handle bar 4, a music IC 5, a battery 6 and a sound-generating plate 7. The hollow brush hair stock 1 (as shown in FIGS. 1, 2) is integrally formed of a plastic. The hollow portion 8 of its front part contains and joins a touch switch 2. The touch plate 9 on said switch 2 is made of a phosphor bronze plate with a proper elasticity. The bent arcuate back of said plate 9 is directly pressed by the protrusion from the opening of the hollow portion 8 to a position outside of said opening. The brush hair board 3 positioned by positioning pins 10 poise said brush hair board 3 at the highest position. Three pins 10 may be used, but additional pins may be used as needed. When the tooth brush is in use, the brush hair on said brush hair board 3 contacts the user's teeth, and pushes said brush hair board 3 to the lowest position to press the upper touch plate 9 of said touch switch 2 to the position flush with the opening of said hollow portion 8. The touch points portion on said upper touch plate 9 engages the lower touch plate 11, thereby making the circuit in the grip handle bar 4 become electrically conductive, so that the sound-generating plate 7 generates the music. The opening of said hollow portion 8 of said brush hair stock 1 is joined with a soft water-proof diaphragm 12 to avoid the entry of water, but not to hamper the actuation of the upper contact plate 9. Brush hair is planted on the brush hair board 3. Three or more through eye holes 13 are provided and three positioning pins 10 pass through and also are positioned in the opening of hollow portion 8 in the front part of said brush hair stock 1 and are also supported by the back of said upper touch plate 9. The front end of said grip handle bar 4 is provided with a plug 14. On the front rim of said plug are provided two power supply contact points 15 connected with wires 16, one of said wires 16 that passes through the hollow portion is connected to the positive pole of said battery 6, while the other wire 16 is connected to the music IC. When said plug 14 is plugged into the socket 17 on the rear end of said hair brush 11 said two power supply contact points 15 contact the two contact points 18 on the bottom of the plug 17 to conduct the supply power required by the circuit through the action of said touch switch 2. At a proper position on the hollow portion of said grip handle bar 4 is fixed a small mercury battery 6, a music IC 5 and said sound-generating plate 7. Several sound-transmitting holes 19 are provided in the wall of the bar close to said sound-generating plate 7 to transmit the music therefrom.

In operation, the user only needs to place the tooth paste on said brush hair, and when the brush hair contacts and is pressed by teeth, the touch switch 2 is touched and pressed to the "on" position to make the circuit in the grip handle bar 4 electrically conductive, so the sound-generating plate 7 generates pleasant music. When the user stops brushing his teeth, the pressure against the brush hair board 3 diminishes and so said touch switch 2 restores to the "off" position and therefore, the music play is stopped.

In the invention, the shapes of said brush hair stock 1 and grip handle bar 4 may have any appropriate form. The brush hair stock 1 and grip handle bar 4 may be combined and made integral with the tooth brush stock. The shape shown in FIG. 1 is only an examplary type of the present invention.