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US 2003/0190582 A1Published application
Dental facility having changeable dental tools
OwnerHsih Chin Louinventor
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Abstract
A dental facility includes a latch disposed in a coupler and having a tongue extendible outward of the coupler, a dental tool member having a barrel engageable onto the coupler, and a spring for biasing the tongue of the latch to engage with the barrel and to detachably secure the dental tool member to the coupler. The dental tool member may be detached from the coupler for being discarded or changed with the other one after use, and for preventing both the patients and the dentists from being contaminated or infected by the dental tool member.
Claims9
A dental facility comprising:
- a coupler including an upper portion,
- a latch disposed in said coupler, and including a tongue extendible outward of said coupler,
- a dental tool member including a barrel engageable onto said upper portion of said coupler, and
- means for biasing said tongue of said latch to engage with said barrel and to detachably secure said dental tool member to said coupler,
- said dental tool member being allowed to be detached from said coupler for being changed with the other one after use.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.