Support body for a blank
AssigneeDENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
InventorsMartin Kutzner, Stefan Fecher, Lothar Völkl
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Abstract
The invention relates to a support body for a blank, whereby the support body possesses a receiving opening for the blank that is surrounded by an inner circumferential surface, which terminates in an upper and a lower edge, and whereby a blank fixed in position within the support body is bonded to the latter by means of an adhesive agent. In order to be able to easily introduce the adhesive agent into a gap between the blank and the support body it is intended that the inner circumferential surface possesses at least one depression and/or elevation extending to accommodate the adhesive agent.
Claims15
A support body for a blank comprising:
- a receiving opening for the blank that is surrounded by an inner circumferential surface bordered by an upper and a lower edge and when the blank is fixed in position within the support body, the blank is bonded to the support body by means of an adhesive agent, whereby the support body includes a hollow cylindrical geometry and circumferentially surrounds the blank, wherein the inner circumferential surface includes a structure in form of a plurality of depressions that extends to at least one of the upper and lower edges, at least one elevation, or both to accommodate the adhesive agent;
- wherein the plurality of depressions is formed within a thickness of a wall of the support body that is bordered by the inner circumferential surface, wherein the plurality of depressions are bordered by a first surface extending along the inner circumferential surface and between lateral surfaces extending perpendicularly to the inner circumferential surface, wherein an angle α is defined between the first surface of the plurality of depressions and the inner circumferential surface to be between 20°≤α≤30°,
- wherein in an area of at least one of the plurality of depressions, the wall of the support body in an edge area possesses a thickness D1 and the wall outside of at least one of the plurality of depressions possesses a thickness D2, whereby 8*D1≥D2≥2*D1;
- wherein in a central area of the inner circumferential surface extends a circumferential ridge, which extends in parallel to at least one of the upper and lower edges to prevent the adhesive agent flowing through a gap between blank and support body from dripping out on an opposite side;
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- wherein from the inner circumferential surface originate one or several projections such that sections of the one or several projections extend above or below the circumferential ridge to serve as support for the blank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.